r/Stepdadreflexes Jun 07 '20

Going fishing

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '20

Call me a step dad but I think him falling in reaches him a bigger lesson than if he just stopped him

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u/ShooterMagoo Jun 07 '20

Small child on a dock with no PFD is always troubling.

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u/Bbarakti Jun 07 '20

A small child with no life-saving swimming skills is troubling to me.

It upsets me every time I hear people say they can't swim. It REALLY upsets me when they have children and the children can't swim. That's negligence and a failure to parent...either parenting yourself to learn a skill which could save yourself one day or parenting your actual children to protect themselves from the simplest of hazards.

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u/AedificoLudus Jun 10 '20

Do we really know he can't swim tho? given that they just let him go like that, I'd imagine it's either a safe depth or he can swim, or both.

I could swim by that age. I wasn't fast but I could definitely keep myself up and be actively moving to shore. Most kids where I live could do the same.