Red Rover. Inappropriate labeling of children as animals. Also,the use of the word red evokes Communist undertones.Sardines. Unfairly leaves one child alone at the end as theloser--a term psychologists have deemed unacceptable.Hide-and-seek. No child need hide or be sought. The modern childruns free in search of himself.Baseball. Involves wrong-headed notions of stealing, errors andgruesome hit-and-run. Players should always be safe, never out.Hopscotch. Sounds vaguely alcoholic, not to mention demeaning toour friends of Scottish ancestry.Marbles. Winning others' marbles is overly capitalistic.Marco Polo. Mocks the blind.Capture the flag. Mimics war.Kick the can. Unfair to the can.

They want their Ambers and their Alexanders to grow up in acozy womb of noncompetition, where everybody shares tofu andLittle Red Riding Hood and the big, bad wolf set up a commune.Then their kids will stumble out into the bright light of thereal world and find out that, yes, there's weak and there'sstrong and teams and sides and winning and losing.

dodgeball is one of the first opportunities in life tofigure out which one you are and how you're going to deal with it.

Noooo! Youmean there's weak in the world? There's strong?

Personally, Iwish all these people would go suck their Birkenstocks.

Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

“Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 19 and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

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