Making kids practice sports in this heat is Ridiculous.

[Philosoraptor]

I've heard of two kids dying of heatstroke in the last two days, while they were practicing football or some sport.

If its this damn hot, keep the kids inside for Christ's sake.

[pooja]

1. guess just florida kids are used to it... sorry for all of those who

are not. we just had a baseball tournament come through town.. kids all over the hotel.

[Bluebear]

20. This Florida kid was not "used to it"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1679078

[xmas74]

2. They had teeball games here the other day.

103 and they had 4,5 and 6 year olds out playing a game.

[rurallib]

3. Yep and coaches thinks it toughens kids up

Uh - it doesn't. It kills 'em.

[malaise]

14. Win at all costs

kids are as dispensible as soldiers. :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[wryter2000]

4. Thank you!

This one makes me crazy. We rightly decry idiots who leave their children and pets in hot cars, but coaches continue to make kids practice in killer heat.

Either find an air conditioned facility or cancel practice. It's better to lose a few football games than a few students.

[DainBramaged]

10. Living vicariously through the kids

Notice the adults aren't practicing. All hoping for that one in a million chance for a kid to go pro.

Full steam ahead. Death to the infidels. wrong rant, sorry.

In other news, kids revolt, tie coach to backstop and hijack ice cream truck. more at 10PM.



:rant: :hide:

[zanne]

5. What about Highway Dept. workers?

We had some guys out here paving a few days ago in the 100 degree heat. It's amazing they don't just drop dead on the spot.

[Monkeyman]

6. If they are on meds for ADD they go down fast

[JAYJDF]

7. yes, there should be more responsibility taken by those in charge

but, it has to do with the parents too.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. My kneejerk reaction is to

say "SOFTIES! It was good enough for our parents!"

But when you think about it, they didn't do the whole organized schtick. They played outside and when it got hot they turned on the hose or sat in the shade. Games and practice should be postponed because of extreme heat, just like rain, snow, hurricanes, etc. The end result is the same.

[RB TexLa]

9. People do all kinds of things in "this heat"

I went for a jog earlier

[wryter2000]

12. Did you run around in pads?

For a couple of hours?

[RB TexLa]

15. I did for 8 years

[SmokingJacket]

My favorite jogging weather is the upper 90's...

but I'm only out for 45 minutes or so, I'm not wearing a helmet and equipment, and I'm not a skinny little twelve year old, either.

Kids can overheat quickly, and they don't have a sense of when their bodies are going out of whack.

[RB TexLa]

17. I have no idea if kids can handle it better or worse, don't know any n/t

[jdlh8894]

16. As a Coach

I have no control over practice or game schedules. I coach 11-13 yr olds. The temp today just north of Atlanta was 98. All my kids got water every 10 to 15 min. As for the OP I would like some documentation or links on the 2 deaths . If that is confirmed ,please don't blame the coaches . They have no control over the weather or when they can practice.

[sweetheart]

11. "making kids"

Inspiring kids to follow their own common sense as free people is not "making", and
the freudian beginning belies the ends.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

13. Far more than any of the political/cultural stuff,

posts like this make me glad I'm English and not American, and hence live on an island where the proximinty of the sea reduces the extremes of temperature because water holds heat better. Most places have either hotter summers or colder winters than us, and many have both, but having grown up here I'm not great at dealing with either.

I may envy Canadians and Scandinavians their snow-sports, and Africans and South Americans their tans, but I couldn't cope with either for very long.

[Posteritatis]

18. There's a small ballfield out back of my house

Little leaguers alllllll the tiiiiime in the summer, you know the drill. It's been really hot here lately too - not ridiculous like South Dakota's 48C on Tuesday, but uncomfortably hot by local standards and dangerous if you aren't keeping an eye on it, drinking something more than just water, etc while doing physical activity. Granted, it's like this this time of year every summer here; myself, I'm opting towards cowering away from the daystar in the afternoons when possible.

Anyway, now and then some of the more win-at-all-costs soccer moms (softball moms? I dunno) get a stick up their ass about their kids' performances or something - someone committed the unthinkable crime of a pair of strikes or something, I dunno. I can tell when that happens because, despite the game ending at six or seven, they're still out there making their kid practice at nine fucking thirty despite the fact that the air's chewy enough that I swear I meet resistance trying to close my mouth. I'm surprised nobody's been hospitalized so far.

I dunno if I have any particular point with this; I'm just saying "WTF?!" in many more words.

[ComerPerro]

19. They will be fine. My football practices were 5 hours a day in 100 degree

heat.

I was fine