The issue of playground safety has pitted parents unnerved by unpadded concrete and too-high monkey bars against those who worry that constant playground redesigns are making children duller, weaker, less adventurous.
Low iodine levels can make your child dull and lethargic, so incorporate iodized salt into your daily diet.
If we cannot now trust the residents of Ambridge to award their children solidly dull names, we have reached a crisis.
But a little more than a year ago, Turner was troubled when she noticed in her three children a "dull acceptance that maybe someone might walk into their school and start shooting at them," she told me.
On examination, the child was dull looking with regular pulse rate of 100/min.
In young children, malnutrition dulls motivation and curiosity and reduces play and exploratory activities.
"Before iodization, the children were so dull they couldn't even tell us their names," he said.
At that time, in 1841, a governess to the White family in Rawdon, Yorkshire, she confides her discontent with indulged children to this dull clergyman who, she knew, understood her not at all.
Still, too much of the material about sugar's role in domestic life is dull: "Children, too, enjoyed ice cream and soda, and accompanied their mothers and fathers to ice cream saloons and soda fountains".
While the backgrounds evoke the familiar vistas of the classic American westerns, from computerized evocations of John Ford's Monument Valley to the tortured, mountainous terrain of Anthony Mann's great films of the 1950's, the horses and the humans in the foreground look like refugees from a dull children's book.
