It really IS possibly to loose your $1 coin 3 times in the sandpit in one day. It is also possible to walk with your underpants full of sand.

Having a boy slide down some rails and collide crotch first against your little 8 year old girl face in front of your mum and the whole playground isn't at all traumatising.

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, I don't know what they did up there but they came down with a daughter" is a perfectly accepted nursery ryhme for children.

You really CAN threaten a child into being well behaved by threatening to cook them only carrots and brocolli for dinner...