Kids warned against snow
Snow is coming, and the Children’s Hospital is warning parents to be very cautious about letting kids play in snow. There’s some serious, detailed stuff about safe tobogganing in this piece, and warnings about snow forts.
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Kate
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jeather 17:12 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
I know it’s not safe to toboggan right into traffic but boy do I have great memories of flying down Murray Hill onto Cote St Antoine as a teenager.
Nicholas 18:16 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
jeather, that they fenced off the steepest section of Murray Hill is a travesty. But even after putting up the boards and bags at the bottom, that moment when you keep the speed up and could make the zig zag past them and onto the sidewalk was perfection.
Ian 18:31 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
Not to be that guy but I actually have a friend who was tobogganing with his kid sister. He has a cool forehead scar, she died.
That said I had a blast with my kids going down the hill on Mont Royal but starting at the upper path so you catch air on the main descent 😀
Kate 19:44 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
She died?
Once on Mount Royal some other kids thought it was funny to place their toboggan right across the path of ours as we descended. I got a minor slash down my cheek, but no scar worth mentioning.
I didn’t think you could die on a toboggan unless the hill was iced up and you went full tilt into a tree.
Ian 20:22 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
They went full tilt into a partially buried fence and then some trees, yeah. Just sayin, that’s why they put up storm fences & bales.
Ian 11:57 on 2025-02-14 Permalink
ONe a cheerier (though still hilariously hazardous) note, all the kids in my neighbourhood are treating the giant snowhills accumulated at the mouths of the alleys as toboggan hills