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Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 9:28:50 AM   
punisher440


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Status: offline 		"Celebrating birthdays at school just got a little less fun for kids in Australia. New guidelines issued Tuesday by the country's National Health and Medical Research Council say that children can no longer blow out the candles on cakes at school because doing so spreads too many germs."

"I think that we are protecting our kids too much," one parent told the Telegraph newspaper in Sydney, Australia. "Let the kids be kids, get some germs, build up the immunity, and get on with it. How about the politicians focus on getting other things right."

Besides stopping blowing out candles on a birthday cake,they also added some more brillant regulations...such as making kids wash their hands BEFORE going outside to play and kids with headlice do not have to be sent home...but you have to wash every seat cushion every day.The whole world is turning into a nanny state it seems.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 9:50:35 AM   
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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 10:32:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		And these are some of the people who want to tell us in the states how to live.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 10:50:33 AM   
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cares how Americans choose to live.

I can't even remember the last time anything
American came up in conversation.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 11:55:59 AM   
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but you have to wash every seat cushion every day.



Is it wrong that my first thought was, "Wait a minute....they have seat cushions in school?"


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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 12:06:00 PM   
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I'm very sure, there is next to no one over here that
cares how Americans choose to live.

I can't even remember the last time anything
American came up in conversation.

A few of our aussie posters in PnR are adamant that their way is the ONE TWUE way.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 12:37:07 PM   
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Or project your disapproval of a person onto the
country they come from.



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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 1:02:48 PM   
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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 1:26:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		At one of my kids schools, only non-food items were allowed to celebrate kids birthdays due to food allergies and to promote healthy eating.
Always bothered me. Let the kids eat their damn cupcakes.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 3:02:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry Oside,the story said cushion covers..not that it changes the fact they have cushions to start with.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 5:56:20 PM   
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but you have to wash every seat cushion every day.



Is it wrong that my first thought was, "Wait a minute....they have seat cushions in school?"


Is it wrong that my first thought was, "Those lucky bastards."?

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 8:39:15 PM   
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Sending kids to school on their birthday is
unaustralian...




'Cause they get one free hangover day a year? (No offense meant, I'm just having fun.)

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 10:51:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		my kids never had cushion covers!

they also don't have cafeteria's. they do have kiosks though.

they also teach religion in state schools (generally at a set time - i think fortnightly, but i could be wrong, by an outside volunteer and it's not compulsory)

most of them also have to raise their own funds for air cons. doin' school without air cons in aus is cruel and unusual punishment

i admit, taken as a nation, australian's seem alot more laid back. on a case by case basis, i like americans as much as australians. and since i've lived in both countries and have dual citizenship, i knows what i'm talking about! (whoa, did that sound like 'twueness'?)

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 11:10:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		KMs, while it did not say it outright in the article,they could be talking about day care and kindergarden.I am not sure about Australia,I do know over here the little ones have nap times.The reason they talked of having to wash the cushion covers daily was because now they can not send a child home because the kid has headlice and they are easily spread.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/7/2013 11:16:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		my grandaughter goes to a day care, she has to bring her own sheets to use at naptime. as regards lice, back when mine where in school, note got sent home whenever someone showed up with lice. all us mom's would go to the stores, get the lice treatment and spend hours (especially if your kids had long hair) combing them out, washing sheets, clothes, etc. if kids had to stay home whenever lice was going around, not sure they'd be in school for very long! everybody was told not to share combs, brushes and hats, but once in the classroom, hard to keep them from spreading.

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RE: Australian kids lose a tradition - 2/8/2013 8:59:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lizard had lice a few times. It got to where I had to get a script from the doctor's office for the powerful stuff. When you see the mother sitting on the outside stoop, picking through the hair, you know NOT to visit them for a couple of days. We even used alcohol to clean the combs and brushes.

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