Take a look at this picture. Where's the Health and Safety aspect here? The Adult to Child ratio is non existent! How dare they have such unsupervised fun.
My son is a member of a Beaver Scouts troop and, during a recent visit to the UK Scout Association's National Headquarters in Gilwell Park, I struck up a conversation with one of the Scout leaders regarding Health and Safety. Now, this young man has been lighting camp fires since the age of 8 and he is now the ripe old age of 19, but, recently he had to attend a Health and Safety course on - yes, you guessed it - Lighting Campfires. There is a place for Health and Safety within every organisation, but, sometimes it just goes too far and sucks the lifeblood out of everything within range.
I watched these kids having fun, the old fashioned way, with not a DS or X-Box in site. They were perfectly well behaved throughout the magic show laid on for them and had all made their own Harry Potter -style, Hats and Wands to wear and wave at the banquet dinner that evening. When I say Banquet, I mean a few tables pushed together, some paintings on the wall and lots and lots of imagination. I came away that evening realising that Kids just want to be Kids and all that they really need is the opportunity to do so - namely, in the middle of a forest, miles away from a TV screen.
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