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WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
Y:
I remember putting my nail to as well to a device that spins, it was funny because it made different sounds then, but nothing was damaged.
Thrillho:
Note: I am pretty passionate about this particular topic, and many topics, and realise this can come across as aggression. I just really, really love discussion, and challenging my own attitudes through talking to people I disagree with. None of the below is intended aggressively, I'm just enthusiastic to discuss it, all is in good faith!
How many of the people here referring to what is and isn't good parenting are parents themselves, or have ever been responsible for the care of teenagers?
I don't think you understand how negligence works in this context, or at the very least, how the law tends to say it works, regardless of whether you share the law's opinion.
The point here is not 'when I was a kid I was left unsupervised and didn't die, nowadays kids need to be wrapped in bubblewrap.' The point here is that you were lucky. And 99.9% of people are lucky. And 0.1% of people are the 14 year old kid, left unsupervised by a 'responsible' adult, be that a teacher, a friend, or a parent, who does get fucking killed by one of these contraptions. That is what the law is there to prevent, because not a single one of those should ever happen.
One thing we do agree on is that it is impossible to keep your kid safe at all times, but there is definitely a middle ground between bubblewrap and not being left in a position where you could have done permanent damage.
This is a forum where attitudes and opinions are frequently challenged, and I am frankly baffled that I'm the only person so far arguing in against leaving literal children unsupervised with power tools simply because you guys managed to lose just a nail, rather than a finger or a hand, and presumably your tendon repaired itself, rather than costing you sensation or dexterity in that hand.
chris73:
'One thing we do agree on is that it is impossible to keep your kid safe at all times, but there is definitely a middle ground between bubblewrap and not being left in a position where you could have done permanent damage.'
I agree and the thing is Sam has shown herself to be someone that doesn't have much common sense (or self preservation, whatever you want to call it) in the last strip she was going to hold the joint rather than use a vice and the first time she was in the shop she somehow ended up sprawled in the machine, running, tripping and falling maybe?
Faye knows what Sam is like and should have taken that into account, Sam has the maturity of...I don't know...a 12 year old at best and is overly-enthusiastic and Faye failed to take this all into account
Faye also seems to want to be Sams friend and co-conspirator and this also encourages Sam to act impulsively (something Sam doesn't need much encouraging in)
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 08 Aug 2018, 16:11 ---One thing we do agree on is that it is impossible to keep your kid safe at all times, but there is definitely a middle ground between bubblewrap and not being left in a position where you could have done permanent damage.
--- End quote ---
I also agree about the middle ground. I suspect we will disagree however, on where that middle ground should be. Personally, I think this is an important life lesson for Sam that she may not have learned any other way. Some kids are more hard-headed than others, you can tell them not to do a certain thing that you know will hurt them 'till you're blue in the face, and they'll just think you're stifling their fun. Then the moment your back is turned/you're distracted (and kids can get very good at noticing and taking advantage of those moments) they go do that thing, and get hurt. That pain may well be a better teacher than anything the parent has said. Yes, we don't like to see our kids hurt, but pain can sometimes be a more effective teacher than a hundred lectures.
Yes, Faye should have watched Sam like a hawk and not taken a bathroom break, or gotten Bubbles to watch her. Yes, she should have told Sam not to stick any body parts in a power tool's moving parts, and Sam might actually have listened. On the other hand, her curiosity has a tendency to override her sense of caution (does she even have one, I wonder?), and I suspect that sooner or later it may have lead her to "forget" such safety lectures. Better it happens with a Dremel, where she only loses a fingernail, than with say a metal saw where she loses a finger or worse. She will remember the pain of losing that fingernail, and her fear of being banned from the shop and from Faye, and is more likely to be careful in the future.
As an aside, it's a good thing this girl wasn't born in Australia, or any part of the US where rattlesnakes and their venomous relatives, and/or scorpions, were prevalent. With her curiosity, fearlessness and love of creepy-crawly things, she wouldn't have made it to her third birthday.
Gyrre:
I'll take stitched over having a nail ripped off.
It hurts bad enough when I have to trim me in-grown nail. The last time I got stitches I watched the doctor sew them in.
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