Retarded Kids Need to Play: A Manual for Parents and Other Teachers

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Summary: Parents of Retarded Children Resist Hirst!
Review: In her preface, Hirst laments our overdeveloped society with its car infrastructure that poses dangers to retarded children, disallowing them to frolic and play at their own natural discretion. Her book, then, is a solution to such a problem, showing parents how to train these children to play in the safety of their own home. In an almost prophetic fashion, Hirst seems to have anticipated the 75% rise in child obesity that has occurred in the last 20 years since the publication of her book (1983). Therefore, she seeks to keep children's motor skills working despite the ever-tightening fast food and car culture constraints. However, one should be properly cynical of her solution which seizes control over play from the retarded children themselves, granting it to the very adults who created the restrictions of the dangerous landscape in the first place. One must ask then, do Hirst and her followers really want society to change and become more centralized with less cars and more green space to accomodate the chaos of a child's play? Or rather do they enjoy their newly justified control over one more realm of untapped nature, a retarded child's youthful energy? Hirst's proposed games for retarded children might confirm these suspicions of unsavory adult desire for domination. It's hard to imagine that the arbiters of instruction do not derive some sick satisfaction from witnessing retards submit to performing "rabbit kicks," "mule vaults," and other animalistic exercises, under the assumption that the children lack the capacity to question their degradation. This satisfaction, unfortunately, is not even the sole purpose of Hirst's games. It is merely a side attraction along the path towards manipulating the retarded children's newly acquired motor skills so that they may function to enhance the pathological society that led to the publication of _Retarded Kids_. Yes, you guessed it: Hirst's unconscious purpose is to control retarded children's play incrementally over the years in order to eventually get more retarded ADULTS in the fast food industry. All of this is not to dispel the good intentions of the special physical education establishment, but to suggest that parents of retarded children need to stop and take a self-reflective look at their unbridled delight in witnessing their flesh and blood behaving like rabbits, seals, mules, wolves, and other creatures.

Rating:
Summary: Parents of Retarded Children Resist Hirst!
Review: In her preface, Hirst laments our overdeveloped society with its car infrastructure that poses dangers to retarded children, disallowing them to frolic and play at their own natural discretion. Her book, then, is a solution to such a problem, showing parents how to train these children to play in the safety of their own home. In an almost prophetic fashion, Hirst seems to have anticipated the 75% rise in child obesity that has occurred in the last 20 years since the publication of her book (1983). Therefore, she seeks to keep children's motor skills working despite the ever-tightening fast food and car culture constraints. However, one should be properly cynical of her solution which seizes control over play from the retarded children themselves, granting it to the very adults who created the restrictions of the dangerous landscape in the first place. One must ask then, do Hirst and her followers really want society to change and become more centralized with less cars and more green space to accomodate the chaos of a child's play? Or rather do they enjoy their newly justified control over one more realm of untapped nature, a retarded child's youthful energy? Hirst's proposed games for retarded children might confirm these suspicions of unsavory adult desire for domination. It's hard to imagine that the arbiters of instruction do not derive some sick satisfaction from witnessing retards submit to performing "rabbit kicks," "mule vaults," and other animalistic exercises, under the assumption that the children lack the capacity to question their degradation. This satisfaction, unfortunately, is not even the sole purpose of Hirst's games. It is merely a side attraction along the path towards manipulating the retarded children's newly acquired motor skills so that they may function to enhance the pathological society that led to the publication of _Retarded Kids_. Yes, you guessed it: Hirst's unconscious purpose is to control retarded children's play incrementally over the years in order to eventually get more retarded ADULTS in the fast food industry. All of this is not to dispel the good intentions of the special physical education establishment, but to suggest that parents of retarded children need to stop and take a self-reflective look at their unbridled delight in witnessing their flesh and blood behaving like rabbits, seals, mules, wolves, and other creatures.

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Summary: Hirst's views on retarded education deserve to be heard
Review: When I first picked up "Retarded Kids Need to Play," I was skeptical. It doesn't seem like retarded kids need much of anything besides our love. As a parent of a retarded kid myself, Cyntha's programs for exercise routines showed me how to make my child have fun in a way that fit in with my hectic lifestyle. From everything from "Circus" to "Seal" this book will have any retarded kid kicking like a mule and neighing like a donkey and liking it! Any parent or teacher who is at a loss about what to do with their special students should buy this book and learn about how much fun learning can be again.

Rating:
Summary: Hirst's views on retarded education deserve to be heard
Review: When I first picked up "Retarded Kids Need to Play," I was skeptical. It doesn't seem like retarded kids need much of anything besides our love. As a parent of a retarded kid myself, Cyntha's programs for exercise routines showed me how to make my child have fun in a way that fit in with my hectic lifestyle. From everything from "Circus" to "Seal" this book will have any retarded kid kicking like a mule and neighing like a donkey and liking it! Any parent or teacher who is at a loss about what to do with their special students should buy this book and learn about how much fun learning can be again.