Enough With Politically Correct Halloween
Posted: October 29th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »While reading the news at a health web site, I stumbled upon an
article that made me start to twitch, which is never a good thing.
This one had to do with Halloween, and the writer was trying to
initiate a boycott of Halloween, because she felt that giving kids
candy by the handful was a bad health practice and we should stop
it, by boycotting Halloween.
Now, as someone who preaches the virtues of health almost daily, I
feel the writer has a point. We all know that, as a society, we eat
too much sugar. (On average, we consume 166 pounds of sugar a year
…each.) That’s a lot of sweet, sticky goo, which does nothing good
for your health. But boycotting Halloween is not going to change
anyone’s health.
Here’s my theory, based on my own behavior and from stories others
have told me. When I was a kid, we had simple costumes and we went
door to door, collecting as much candy as humanly possible. For 24
to 48 hours, we gorged on sugar, until our teeth hurt. Then, we
could hardly look at candy, until Easter, when we got more, without
having to walk around and lug the stuff. We would chug down a lot of
chocolate and then, pretty much forget about candy, until the next
Halloween.
My mother used to keep candy in a big glass bowl, right out in the
open and we wouldn’t touch it the rest of the year. We had too many
things to do outside to be worried about sitting around sucking up
candy.
If this writer’s kids are in the house eating candy, she needs to
find them something to do. And hopefully that would involve exercise
and a lot of moving around. But kids today aren’t in bad health
because they eat candy. They’re in bad health because they don’t get
sunshine, or do any exercise, and they eat a total junk diet, not
just candy.
Have you ever noticed that schools no longer have playground
equipment? That is, if you see school kids outside, they are just
standing around doing nothing? That’s because the schools are
politically correct. They don’t want kids to compete, which is the
natural order of things. The playground equipment is gone, because
the school district’s attorney’s don’t want the school to get sued,
because Johnny might fall and break his arm. There is no dodgeball,
because someone’s feelings might get hurt.
We now have a couple of generations of wimps on the loose and we
wonder why their health is poor. Well…the writer and her ilk need
to look in the mirror. What are they going to screw up next?
The late George Carlin summed it up best, when he said the best
thing adults could do for children is to let them grow up, without
much interference. Stop wiping their face off every five minutes and
put the hand sanitizer back on the grocery store shelf. And for
God’s sake, stop these silly campaigns, like the anti-bullying
thing, going on now.
When my younger brother came home crying about a bully, I took him
back to fight the bully. It ended in some minor cuts, scratches and
a draw. When I was confronted by a bully, as a freshman in high
school, I swung first and the bully took one in the nose, which bled
all over his clothes. Nobody ever laid a hand on me again.
If we really want to teach kids something, let’s teach them how to
take care of themselves and not worry about Halloween candy. Let’s
teach them how to use monkey bars and how to climb a rope. Let’s
have them burn so many calories, they don’t have to worry about a
few pieces of candy.
As Herman Cain would say to Obama, "Man up!"
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