Some people are against all kinds of violence. We at pinatacasa could not agree more with them. Our main activity centers on children and their fun activities. However, we would hardly have expected Piñatas would have something to do with violence as we understand it. That piñatas had to come into their line of fire is a matter of regret.  There are even websites that oppose piñatas. Now, children had always been around and they have always had fun bashing the piñatas. The nay-sayers of the opinion that the kids can grow to like the violence - if you can call it that - and that it will take root and show in some unpleasant way in their day-to-day life.  This is a specious argument, if there ever was one.

This is actually reading too much into an activity that has fun as the central theme. The aim is not the bashing of the figure dangling from the rope. The boys and girls are only zeroing in on the stuff inside the piñatas. They just want to get at the toys and sweets that would scatter all around and be part of the the fun that child will have pocketing them.  Hitting the piñata is only a sort of preparatory action to get at the sweets. If you had to take it in the extreme and be overly cautious, you will only succeed in taking away the fun that the children have been having for centuries. This deprivation is really uncalled for.

By the same token, playing cops and robbers and Indians too should be banned. Do you know of anyone roll-playing taking things seriously and turning a robber? Or, going about antagonizing Indians? This is carrying things too far.

Let the children have their fun and let us not find dangers where there are none.

By the same token, playing cops and robbers and Indians too should be banned. Do you know of anyone roll-playing taking things seriously and turning a robber? Or, going about antagonizing Indians? This is carrying things too far.

Let the children have their fun and let us not find dangers where there are none.

By the same token, playing cops and robbers and Indians too should be banned. Do you know of anyone roll-playing taking things seriously and turning a robber? Or, going about antagonizing Indians? This is carrying things too far.