Syag, please explain how you have no problem with a game that the objective is to tackle someone who is running at you as fast as he can.
because that is not the objective of the game. I try very hard to keep my kids safe (and that inludes not giving them the car keys til 18) but there is no way to prevent all tragedy, and there is no way to tell them everything is off limits. I have seen years and years worth of football games where nobody gets hurt, I have seen years and years of baseball, soccer and biking where nobody has gotten hurt. On the other hand, the kids with skateboards and scooters have seen many injuries. That is enough to tell me to worry more about scooters than footballs.
I am not from New york. I have to tell you that every single year we hear of a fatal or serious car accident R”L happening in the mountains. Every year. And every year I shake my head and wonder how parents can be so stupid as to ever allow their children to drive those routes with that type of record. Perhaps you are one of those parents, or perhaps you are shaking your head right back at me and saying that the statistics are really no higher than any other road, we just hear more often about the bad news.
Bottom line is you don’t have to agree, you are welcome to protect your children from the dangers that you see before you, but I will do the same.
And every morning I pray to Hashem to keep them alive and well, and every night I thank Him for doing so.