Cubby House

[wheelinround]

How do we teach kids to use their minds and grow skills when we have bureaucratic meddling and kill joys.

These kids have procured and built this themselves I don't think so maybe a little help from some parents.

Demolishing dreams - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[Wongo]

It is all BS. More like The kids watched while the adults were building it.

There is an easy way out. Ask the kids parent to sign an agreement not to suit the government if their kids got injured.

[Waldo]

Sounds like Newman is turning into a Soorley. What a :insertexpletive:.

Next kids can't climb trees. My little girl asked me just yesterday that when she's older can I build her a cubby house? Too right I will The endless time I spent on the cubby house my Dad put up over night for me, and to wake up in the morning to find a giant cubby house was priceless, and something I'll do for my kids.

[munruben]

With all due respect though, the news item doesn't actually say the kids built the tree house themselves although it leads one to believe they did.

I can't believe we have come to this point in our society where we wont allow kids to build cubby/tree houses. Kids have been climbing trees since time began and building tree houses too. Surely some things are just part of life and there has to be some risks in life even for our kids. What happened to a sense of adventure?

On the other hand if society wasn't so keen to sue the pants off everybody the least chance they got, maybe we could return to a reasonable world where people took responsibility for their own actions.

[52RI]

I'll throw in my uninformed 2c as well. Something doesn't look right here. Believe me, I'm no fan of the BCC and the planning and DA/BA processes (having been through them and still involvedf right now). But it looks like we are talking about building a treehouse on council land without permission not on one's own land-apologies if i missed it, but no mention of the tree being in the person's own house was made. If I had to make a couple of reasoned guesses, they would be: 1. the people were dobbed in by neighbours (and we haven't heard that side of the story) and 2. those kids were heavily coached by someone (the second kid who was "heartbroken" deserves an oscar!), perhaps the builders. In other cubby house threads on this site, people are taken to task in case the structure won't be sound etc. What I saw on that report was a series of totally open platforms which I, as a father of a very keen climbing, overconfident 6 yr old would hate to see in a council park. I love to let my daughter learn by doing (including the odd medicinal tumble) but I doubt I'd let her visit friends with that sort of thing in their yard without supervision. Also, I have absolutely no idea (nor do I want to know) where that structure is. And yes, I will be building my little ones a tree house in the mango tree in our yard!

[wheelinround]

The Kids win a $60,000.00 Cubby House
Newmarket kids to get $60,000 fort from council after it condemned their homemade treehouse | Courier Mail