Some people are against all kinds of violence.  Which we at pinatacasa think is a good thing and we support it whole-heartedly.  A fun-filled activity like piñata need not be taken as belonging to an activity that will inculcate violence in children. Piñatas had to come into their line of fire sooner or later. There are even websites that oppose piñatas. Now, children had always been around and children 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 it will take root and show in some unpleasant way in 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 to get at the toys and sweets that would scatter all around and the fun each child will have pocketing. 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.

This is actually reading too much into an activity that has fun as the central theme. The aim is to get at the toys and sweets that would scatter all around and the fun each child will have pocketing. 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.