Back To School
Aug. 29th, 2011 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanamySince I don't go to school anymore and don't have kids, I don't really pay attention to all the various back to school hoopla. But there's something I just have to say: The commercials I've been seeing for back to school have kids toting around backpacks that are much too big for them. We're going to ruin their little backs.
Those little kids on tv can look all happy and run around with the Dora The Explorer backpack slightly larger than their torso 'cause those things are just filled with enough crumpled tissue paper to get them to hold their shape for the camera. Put actual stuff in them and you get the hunched forward bad posture so you can actually walk without your backpack making you fall backwards.
Trust me. The big backpack thing was in fashion when I was in school too. I went around loaded up like a pack mule and it wrecked my back.
They might not feel it at six, or even sixteen, but at twenty-six, it does suck balls to be able to say I can't go swimming/snowboarding/jello-wrestling or what have you because I have a bad back and be telling the truth.
Also, padded straps are bullshit. They don't do a damn thing.
Those little kids on tv can look all happy and run around with the Dora The Explorer backpack slightly larger than their torso 'cause those things are just filled with enough crumpled tissue paper to get them to hold their shape for the camera. Put actual stuff in them and you get the hunched forward bad posture so you can actually walk without your backpack making you fall backwards.
Trust me. The big backpack thing was in fashion when I was in school too. I went around loaded up like a pack mule and it wrecked my back.
They might not feel it at six, or even sixteen, but at twenty-six, it does suck balls to be able to say I can't go swimming/snowboarding/jello-wrestling or what have you because I have a bad back and be telling the truth.
Also, padded straps are bullshit. They don't do a damn thing.
