Tara Parker-Pope at The New York Times had a blog entry yesterday telling why, according to a study, kids at day care aren't taken outside to play. Only one kid showing up in cool weather without a coat, or one kid wearing flip-flops, apparently was enough to make some day care administrators keep them all inside for the day.

She also notes that kids might be kept away from playgrounds with mulch because some kids would eat the mulch, use it as weapons, or get it stuck in their shoes. (Hmmm... I remember many a skinned knee from the gravelled ground under our elementary school swing sets, but that didn't keep the teachers from releasing us for recess each day.)

While the blog item is kind of interesting on its own, it managed to set off a firestorm of comments -- 175 and counting last I looked -- triggered at least in part by one reader who thought mothers were committing child abuse by putting their kids in day care. Check it out.

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