Zack squares off in the playground. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland On a sweltering June day, a welter of yelps rose from the playground in the northeastern corner of Greenpoint’s leafy, tidy McGolrick Park. The playground had been lined with a sturdy foam in 2018 to soften the landings of children. But there were still injuries to be had.
For her part, Kang worried that her children, who saw the tussling, might feel scared. “I’m all for kids wrestling and having some fun,” she wrote. “My kids do it at home all the time, but watching this full-on fight fest was very jarring and something I wouldn’t want my kids to witness.” Kang ended her post with the suggestion that “maybe the parents involved can take the kids to a grassy area instead. There’s plenty of room at McGolrick.
Zack and Aaron, fight-clubbers. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland And so it went. Parents offended by the notion of a fight club squared off against parents offended by parents offended by the notion of a fight club. It was an ouroboros of parental opinion. What was clear was that, whatever your private parental choices are, about roughhousing or 10,000 other things, in a public park, that choice will itself be subject to endless other parental choices.
It was 2:45 p.m. when I pushed open the creaky gate of the playground to meet Julie Wilson, wearing a black tank top and khaki scrubs with her curly hair tied back. Though she grew up in Manhattan, Wilson has a bit of a “mayor of Greenpoint” air about her, knows everyone, has an opinion on most things. Her son, Zack, as she mentioned in the Facebook group, is a part of the fight club, whose total membership, according to Wilson, amounts to fewer than ten.
Some?
Mason pinned Caden. Dylan kicked Aiden while Jackson pushed Peyton into Grayson’s nanny. It’s pure mayhem
Stupidity. Encouraging violence by labeling it a fight club. What next?
Jake Paul just booked a fight with the kid on the bottom.
The caucasity
Sounds exactly like my elementary school recess. Teachers only jumped in if somebody was getting too much.
i can’t even read this. what is wrong with people
Thunder Dome! 2 kids enter...1 kid leaves!
D_AGOSTINO So which one of them got the idea from SVU?
Whaaaaaat hooooood is thiiiiis? crimefaces
Geez, let the parents start a fight club. My bet? The parents who object get their ass kicked. They’re p*ssies.
Most parents don't approve
That's horrible... let me see a video
I assumed this was the onion
Are these parents nuts or what? In my mind this is child abuse.
I guess I forgot who reads this magazine...I would be interested to hear what charlesmurray would say about this piece and its relation to his increasingly salient book: Coming Apart. What is this article about even?
luisjgomez real ass dude of the week right here
Omg.
GeneAntros So what. Philly used to have a TV show where children boxed.
Just let the kids play
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: NYMag - 🏆 111. / 63 Read more »
Source: RollingStone - 🏆 483. / 51 Read more »
Source: StyleCaster - 🏆 104. / 63 Read more »
Source: HuffPostParents - 🏆 414. / 53 Read more »
Source: PsychToday - 🏆 714. / 51 Read more »
Source: usweekly - 🏆 390. / 55 Read more »