Childhood As We Knew it - gone.

I used to love recess when I was a kid - between kickball, dodgeball, baseball and about two dozen types of tag - not to mention trading cards and a bunch of other games - it was the best time of the day. Well, as some of you have heard dodgeball has been banned at many schools. I can understand that somewhat - I got hit in the head more than once and it never tickled - but still it was a fun game and not many people got hurt. Now they've banned tag! [FoxNews Video] The reasons - bullying. I never once felt like I was bullied into a game of tag and I don't know that I could think of one person that I've ever seen bullied into a game of tag. Generally the game is only played by those who want to play it - playing tag with someone that doesn't want to play is really no fun. I understand that bullies are terrible and we should do our best to prevent them, but at some level we need to let the politics of the playground play out. Bullies almost always get beat at something - if not beat themselves - and then a new politic is enacted on that playground. It's part of life, learning how to deal with unreasonable people that don't want to play by the rules. If we take this away from our kids then we're surely not doing them any favors.