My kids have by no means gone down a steaming scorching metallic slide. They’ve by no means fallen from monkey bars onto arduous concrete. As infants, they by no means rammed their heads into an unpadded furnishings nook, or had to go to sleep with out the soothing whoosh of white noise to dampen their chaotic little ideas. They’ve by no means felt any actual dehydration, had a sunburn, or been pressured to look at the Value is Proper for 2 hours straight after they’re sick as a result of nothing else is on. We’ve rightly finished our damndest as a society to defend the youth of as we speak from as lots of life’s struggles as potential. And whereas there isn’t a arguing that is typically for the very best, many specialists additionally fear in regards to the results of continual overprotection, and the dearth of life abilities and resilience that may come from by no means having skilled any actual sense of failure or problem.
However hey, a minimum of nonetheless we had Capri Solar.
Now, nevertheless, as reported by Snackolater, there’s a rumor Capri Solar will quickly offer a twist-top bottled model of its signature juice pouch, and I (and others) fear about what this new easy-open choice may do to additional threat the fortitude of the youthful era.
The psychological and bodily tenacity required to effectively stab a metallic pouch of Capri Solar with a tiny yellow straw has been one of many solely methods I, as a mum or dad, can really put together my children for the realities of grownup life. Lose the straw? Sport over. Can’t hit that tiny little gap? Stab elsewhere, however you higher have some critical higher physique power, and I can’t think about what number of ER visits have been triggered by lacking the pouch altogether and hitting one’s higher thigh. When you do have the hand-eye coordination of a neurosurgeon and handle to make the fragile puncture, watch out to not grasp too arduous, or anticipate a stream of sticky juice to spray out throughout you, sacrificing each your garments and most of your beverage.
Why would Capri Solar do that? My guess is it’s aiming for a extra grown up buyer base — although in the event you’ve ever watched a pudgy-fisted three-year-old repeatedly slamming a poky straw into their fruit punch, you’d query if kids had been actually the appropriate audience to start with. And has the corporate not observed that pouch-food has turn out to be a brand new craze, with all the pieces from milk tea to tuna to saag paneer being distributed through squeezesack?
Fortunately, it sounds just like the plan isn’t to interchange the unique pouches, however complement them. And providing a wide range of codecs certainly eliminates a barrier for these with accessibility and dexterity challenges. However whereas my job as a mum or dad is to guard and nurture my kids, I for one will proceed to look at and smile as, lips parched, they mindlessly and angrily jab at a shiny and doubtless scorching pouch of sugar juice to quench their thirst. It’s again to high school season, in any case.