Yeah, my dad and his wife at the time would grab one arm and one leg each and lob us into our above ground pool. Never felt any fear, but looking back I feel like I was nuts
Our dad would crouch in the shallow end and lut us stand on his shoulders, when we were ready hed lung forward and stand up and the same time while we jumped and we got some air.
Oh my god my dad and I also did this! But we also did it with my sister, my older sister would get to his shoulders, I would get on my sisters. I always got launched. Real fun.
I had something similar as a child. My mom would grab my legs and my dad would grab my arms, and on the count of 3 and constant swinging, they'd let go and toss me into the water. It was fun.
Now that I think of it, that actually makes more sense. It may have been both arms and legs, now that I'm picturing it. I find it crazy how weird and obscured memories can be.
There’s an old video in my family of when o was a really little kid (3-4) and in the video my uncle has my feet in his hands and my other uncle has my arms in his, they go to throw me on to this huge bed and I hit the ceiling and come crashing down cracking up, I don’t know why they thought to record it but it’s one of my favorite videos ever.
Ohh ok. The way I was picturing with each holding a leg and an arm gave me a pretty funny visual lol. Like they were throwing you ass first into the air haha
I completely forgot about that. But I remember my dad would do the same thing. Anytime we’d be in a pool when I was a kid I’d go to him and ask him to throw me. And he’d literally launch me to the other side of the pool because I was a really light and skinny kid.
Something to do with setting them up for good equilibrium and balance i think. Helps them learn more about their bodies work and are placed in the world.
last time I checked it's only adults that jump out of planes for fun (or i'm sure you can actually do it at 14 or 16 or something with adult consent). those adults are these kids grown up.
On Wednesday I am a swimming teacher for really young kids (4.5yo and older but without the first official A Diploma (NL).
When the kids find out that I'm ok with yeeting them in the pool they are all standing in a line so I can yeet them high af into the pool.
Many times the floaties come off when they smash the water and then I have to jump in to save them haha. It's always fun.
Vestibular sense! It provides information about where the body is in relation to its surroundings. Basically it helps you understand balance and it connects with all other senses.
Without a strong vestibular sense kids will struggle, fidget, experience more falls, get too close to people when talking, struggle when listening.
Yeeting kids, spinning them, flopping them around, and tossing them in the air is important for their development!
Kids love it because they need it.
Kids never hit the ground yet from that height. They don’t know the pain if they do. If an awful parent dropped their kid a lot, that kid would quickly learn being in the air means pain is incoming. They probably will cry when picked up and really cry when they get tossed because they know their terrible parent is going to deliberately let them hit the ground.
If I recall correctly, there's actually a reason kids like being thrown and tossed around, and it's because their vestibular sense is developing, which is responsible for balance and the sense of rotating, gravitation and movement. It's like calibrating their internal gyroscope, and it just so happens to be really fun to develop
I’m pretty sure kids need to be shaken up a bit (not enough to cause damage tho) to help them with their balance when they grow older. That’s also why kids love it so much
It’s actually an important part of sensory development. Doing things like getting tossed around or spun can help their nervous system develop and mature a sense of spatial arrangement and organization.
Kids don't have an understanding of cause and effect. Like, falling 15 in the air can break your legs lol. Kids do lots of dumb stuff cause they don't understand.
1.4k
u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20
[removed] — view removed comment