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I broke my leg as a kid. It wasn’t a big deal. I remember the cast being kind of cool, the other kids in my school signed it. As a parent I would of course kee
by burlesona 7y ago
I broke my leg as a kid. It wasn’t a big deal. I remember the cast being kind of cool, the other kids in my school signed it.
As a parent I would of course keep my kids away from something I thought would cause a head injury or was seriously dangerous, but minor injury risk (even up to broken bones) is just something all humans live with. Otherwise there’s no sports, no running, no exercise at all.... and that’s even worse for your health.
- watwut 7y agoBroken leg is 2500$ on average. And local kindergarten was unequipped to have injured kid, so parents scrambled hard to cover work and childcare too.
- dEnigma 7y agoI have to admit that the potential cost of such injuries didn't occur to me until I read your comment. Blissful ignorance of an European enjoying universal healthcare I suppose.
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- Waterluvian 7y agoBeing Canadian this just didn't even register in my mind. That's an unfortunate limitation.
- watwut 7y agoIt does cost even if you don't pay it put of pocket. Meaning that it makes sense for whoever ends up paying to not want to pay it.
- Waterluvian 7y agoMy opinion is that the cost of avoiding broken bones is much higher in many harder to measure ways.
- watwut 7y agoFrankly, the whole issue is overblown. The kid really does not need to break leg to learn something profound. We have old school playgrounds here, but kids don't like them more. Metal slide is too hot in summer and it all gets old quicker then colorful new ones. Most kids don't go to playground after school, because nowdays parents are expected to go with them and parents don't like that or wants to cook. Playgrounds are super boring for parents. When kids are big enough to go alone, they don't know what to do there. Kids over 8 mostly want to either play elaborate stories or talk. "Naturally" there are no playgrounds, gardens at best and risk there is from tools. When I take kids to forest, there are only rarely dangerous situations. Most trees are impossible to climb at, exceptions are the ones with fruits in the gardens. The ground is soft. The kind of injuries that happened in old playgrounds like stucking head somewhere or strangling on rope or hand stuck in seesaw don't happen.
- dTal 7y agoI doubt the real cost approaches whatever the American healthcare system makes you pay. The inefficiency is something like an order of magnitude.