First Michael Phelps is blasted as an enabler of fat kids across the country because he decided to endorse Frosted Flakes instead of the usual Olympian cereal billboard of Wheaties. Nutritionists are lamenting that Phelps should set a better example to obese kids everywhere. Hellooooo? Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day and he is svelte. Why? Because he moves his body. Tell your fat kid to get off his fat can and run around until the street lights come on like we used to.
Now a nine-year-old is "too good" to play on a Little League team. Parents are afraid that his fast ball could hurt someone.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=nine%20year%20old%2C%20little%20league&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn
Come on! If we continue to bubblewrap kids they will be completely ill-equipped to deal with any real adversity. If you strike out, suck it up. Don't throw the achiever off the team.
