Do kids today break bones like they did in my day?
 

I was just reading a comments thread on some blog where an old bastard of 44, who seemed 64, was in typical old bastard fashion pontificating about how the world was better when he was a kid.

It did get me thinking, when I was a kid every other week a friend or classmate would show up in a cast of some sort - usually a broken arm or collar bone, the odd broken leg or worse thrown in. Are kids these days so over or well protected or sedentary that there are less kids breaking bones?

We've traded in the broken arm of childhood for ADD and other quasi neuropsych disorders like autism/aspergers?

Come to think of it....

When I was a kid my classmates always seems to have had broken something or another; Casts were a way of life. I never broke anything myself.

My kid... Broke her arm and her leg, two different incidents... but I can't remember any of her friends having broken anything.

Hard to break a bone playing video games.

Are you seriously fucking asking if kids break bones still?
omfg get a hobby....

Maybe , people 40yrs ago were just dumber so they broke more bones.

You really can't be this stupid that you can only understand things literally spelled out for you. My point wasn't if kids are still breaking bones but if it has decreased over the past 4 decades and what are the reasons.

I am sure one of the major reasons is kids are supervised and over protected more. Some for the good and some for the bad. We'd leave the house at 9am in the summer and sometimes wouldn't return until dark, our parents had no idea what we were up to and really weren't worried about it.

So many kids I know broke their arms falling out of trees - I don't even know if kids climb trees anymore. They have no reason to fill in time climbing trees and jumping off shit, they go to organized sports activities and then into the house where they have an endless amount of electronic entertainment.

I dont think it happens as much because they are all sitting on the couch playing video games getting fat.

Good thing we got wireless controllers and stuff these days.
God knows what they could break tripping over cables....

Its kinda down to the parents and grandparents putting the effort in TBH...

My lil grandson (14 months old) gets brought round by my son every so often... He toddles about with his arms in the air for balance, and at that age, isn't 100% aware of what is happening around him.

When my son isn't looking, I enjoy nothing more than giving him a 'hard shove' or a 'light kick' in the back, sending him careering into the chairs, the table or the TV stand etc.... (Or just flat on his face, on the hardwood floor)

He hasn't actually broken any bones yet, but theres still hope yet if I keep at it... :thumbsup

No, no children break bones anymore.

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My kid gets thrashed all the time but he's 13 now so he is way into video games and girls. He's gonna brake his arm or ankle without a doubt though. Cant ride a skateboard for shit and all he wants to do is tricky stuff.

Definitely a different world now. Mostly minor injuries with all the supervision and liability issues. Had to sign a waiver for him to play flag football. A little overboard I think.

He is built like a tank though. Not all the other kids are, so I dunno.

Only in virtyal world... In games like GTA and Mortal Combat...

That is what my son is doing 90% of the time, He has still managed to break his wrist and the other night made a trip to the E.R. from falling off his skateboard. My daughter actually caught it on video.

Look at childrens playgrounds.. They used to be all concrete with (at least in the UK) a thing called a Witches Hat, that basically took out a local kid once a week, smashed face/teeth. Slides, you used to have to climb 20 ft in the air, now they set them on slopes, so kids are always at ground level, and everything is padded.

Lack of competitive sports in school, I was playing rugby against other schools from the age of 8. When I went to highschool, the first competitive rugby match ended in 1 broken collarbone, 3 neck braces, numerous dislocated fingers and a 3 inch gash down my knee, which 30 years later you can still see the scar.

Ermmmm... Perhaps lets not? :error:error:error






I'm Joking of course :thumbsup

I agree with EVERYTHING you said. :)

"The incidence [of fractures] increased by 13% during the period 1998–2007"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...674-81-148.pdf

sprained wrists and thumbs

It's happening less for a number of variables that you aren't seeing.

-yes, kids play outside less than they used to
-yes, kids will only be aloud to play in safer environments these days, mostly because every parent thinks there kid is going to get raped now
-playgrounds are less lethal than they used to be no doubt

what you aren't seeing is:

-kids are eating a lot more calcium these days, stronger bones don't break as easily.
-they don't cast up everything these days, they'll use braces or walking casts instead and those fly under the radar more.
-last and most clear... you are a fucking adult and aren't around kids 1/100 as much as you used to when you were a kid! other than your own maybe.

I think you nailed it buddy.

Kids are now more "protected" by parent eye than they used to on global scale. They have more inhouse fun systems and they play much more safer than we use to.

I doubt it. You cant break your leg if your xbox character gets hurt.

I use to think you were one of the smart ones but I guess like me back in the day it was so easy to make money in adult. Now you cannot figure out why less kids in you ropinion break bones? Well you are not in school anymore and are not around a bunch of kids. I use to go out and play every day until the sun went down with 50 other kids. Now these days most kids have never even rode a fucking bike before LOL. I dated a girl with a 9 and 11 year old and bought them bikes and they had never rode one so I took them back and got them scooters which at least they rode. I think less break bones too but mainly because less go out and play, climb trees and such. Hell I climed a tree so high one time I could see the curve of the earth haha

Thanks, INTERNET :winkwink:

"Desensitizing the world since 1995"

The societies in which we live in today are filled with horrible ways of life. we live in a world were you need to have your kid sitting at home playing video games not only so he/she doesn't get hurt outside but because you have nosy and annoying outsiders butting in on everything you do or say to your kids.

if your kid were to break an arm, neighbors would start talking crap and I've seen several cases were they went as far as telling you to take better care of your kid.

Not only that but parenting is disappearing and it seems like people who have kids just don't care about those type of things anymore.

cool story bro

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