Campfires

[scrapsD40]

Yeah chill out everybody. This is a fun, family informative forum.

I was lucky to be brought up by salt of the earth parents that instilled respect and knowledge in me and my siblings. That doesn't mean they were perfect as who is, but we learnt by being outdoors and through the school of hard knocks.
I'm hoping I've carried this through to my sons who were both camping, fishing and toasting marshmallows over campfires before they could walk.
They have an understanding of risk and danger not through reading about it on line.

While everyone is entitled to an opinion, Jules, be careful with the Nissan jokes

[The punter]

Maybe your reference to nanny  state laws.

While we're generallising, what if this dad that is sitting at home at the moment, distraught that his kid is seriously injured lying in hospital, beating himself up as to what he may or may not have done wrong happens to be a Myswagger and is reading how he is a piss head and a dumbar$e etc.
 Why not give this family the benefit of the doubt until proved otherwise

Fair enough.

I wasn't calling the parent in this case a dumbarse btw, my comments were in response to a previous one about "why would you say that". They were quoted without that context

This is also why I said it could have just as easily been an accident.

[oldmate]

Hey posters, try not to turn everything that gets posted into an argument, complaint or criticism.

We know nothing of the role of parenting in this situation, the Govt probably wasn't there and I don't recall any/many laws around campfires and kids. Maybe a Nissan driver pushed the kid? Of course not!

How about just expressing some empathy and compassion and maybe how you positively parented your kids so they were aware of the dangers of fires, or how you had a close call, because that can happen.

X2 mate.

[Troopy_03]

Although slightly off topic, I saw an incident a couple of years ago at King's Canyon. We were doing the walk around the top, and at one place where there is a sheer drop of hundreds of meters to the bottom, a kid about 8 or 9 ran towards the edge, stopped about a meter from the edge, and hurled a big rock over the side. I nearly crapped, I thought he was going over the edge. The mother (I presume it was his mother, and no male partner visible) didn't even bat an eyelid. Luckily another person, who didn't appear to be with them, ripped into her and told her irresponsible it was, and etc. etc. etc. I was still speechless, I honestly thought he was a gonner, and if he had tripped he would have been. Not only the danger to the kid, but also there are people walking around the bottom of the cliffs too.

[oldmate]

What about the walkers at the bottom of the canyon that the rock clobbered on the head?

[weeds]

Love the word 'supervision'......it's the first word thrown up but near impossible to execute

[Troopy_03]

What about the walkers at the bottom of the canyon that the rock clobbered on the head?

Exactly, it's actually what I wrote on the last line LOL

[oldmate]

 

Exactly, it's actually what I wrote on the last line LOL

oops. Lol