To the state of Maryland, everyone that touches a kid is a pedo

http://mommyish.com/stuff/do-not-apply-sunscreen-to-kids-camp-counselors-told/

Do Not Apply Sunscreen To Kids, Camp Counselors Told

Applying sunscreen just got a whole lot stickier. Last month, Maryland health officials issued a policy prohibiting summer camp counselors from assisting kids with applying sunscreen. Why? They were afraid of inappropriate touching. Parents, on the other hand, were afraid of sunburn (and rightly so!).

The law did not go into effect thanks to some last-minute revisions, though parents still have to sign a waiver agreeing to have counselors help apply sunscreen. “We regret the confusion caused,” Clifford C. Mitchell, assistant health director for environmental health and food protection, told The Washington Post.

The original guidelines said that camp staff should limit touching campers as much as possible and that campers are prohibited from even assisting each other in applying sunscreen. “Our intention is certainly not to discourage the use of sunblock,” Mitchell said. “It’s really to walk a fine line between protecting kids’ skin and making sure they feel personally safe.”

It’s true that perverts do exist out there but to even consider implementing such a policy is absurd. We should be teaching kids to look out for suspicious behavior and to report anything that feels even slightly wrong or uncomfortable. Besides, most parents are more concerned about their kids getting a sunburn at camp; I know that I personally worry about that with my 5-year-old, who has no clue how to thoroughly apply sunscreen on his own.

I'm beginning to fall in the "humanity is a failed experiment" camp.

The pussification of Americas youth continues.

Gee, I taught my kid to punch the offender in the groin. It seems to have worked quite well.

N Sperlo wrote: The pussification of Americas youth continues.

We really need a new term. I, for one, really like Bob Costas, and have a hard time seeing it as a bad thing!

Joey

joey48442 wrote:

N Sperlo wrote: The pussification of Americas youth continues.

We really need a new term. I, for one, really like Bob Costas, and have a hard time seeing it as a bad thing! Joey

I have to go with this. Besides, I've met plenty of strong and resilient women. Call it the "wimpification"? "Sociologistification" seems a bit clunky.

wussififcation?

JThw8 wrote: wussififcation?

That's a good one!

Joey

so... it is illegal to apply sunscreen to a kid's shoulders when asked?

At what point are we going to be so afraid of touching that we cease to procreate? I already know a couple of germaphobes

line up !

if you read the article.. the kids were even supposed to be prohibited from applying it to each other...

Further reinforces my thought that MD would be a great state were it not for the morons in charge.

And baltimore.

pretty much.. and I love MD too

Welcome to Maryland, the wanna be California of the east coast/

And they are bad enough they can't even pull that off.

I thought Virgina was the wannabe California?

VA has places you can get away from the crap of it all, md does not.

As a Californian that recently visited MD, they are definitely not pulling off being us.

That said, MD crab cakes are frickin' awesome and somehow better than anywhere else.

Great. Way to berkeley the kids minds up even more. I was a camp counselor growing up. Sure glad it was back in the old days.

In reply to Lesley:

It was somewhat expected that we were going to damage the kids a bit mentally, noone ever even suspected we would try didling them. In the name of good fun we could usually scare them enough that they would stay awake a day or two, or make the brighter ones sleep in shifts.

In reply to Wally:

I thought that was the other reason kids went to camp. The main being the parents get time alone.

fasted58 wrote: line up !

I was going to hotlink some spray on sunscreen, but your applicator wins.

This is just lobbyists for Cancer winning the fight. The pedo accusations are really just a ploy to expose children to more UV rays.

Wally wrote: In the name of good fun we could usually scare them enough that they would stay awake a day or two, or make the brighter ones sleep in shifts.

I was a camp counselor as well, back in the early 1970s. Thinking up new ways to scare the kids was our major pastime.

Going back to the original post, I don't remember even seeing a bottle of suntan lotion let along putting any on a camper.

stuart in mn wrote: I was a camp counselor as well, back in the early 1970s. Thinking up new ways to scare the kids was our major pastime. Going back to the original post, I don't remember even seeing a bottle of suntan lotion let along putting any on a camper.

I did it about a decade earlier, but I agree on both points.

Salanis wrote: As a Californian that recently visited MD, they are definitely not pulling off being us.

No further proof is needed you are indeed a Californian.