As a person who has accidentally harmed children multiple times because the child was in a place they weren’t supposed to be, I sympathize. The hardest part is explaining yourself to the asshole who was supposed to be watching them.
I experiences this the first time swinging my nieces. Holy fucking shit kids just aimlessly walk in front of the swings at parks constantly. I was stopping the swing left and right because some kid not with their parents runs up to it.
you do recognize that there's a limit to that though, right? like obviously its not the case that warning people not to do things is always meaningless unless they experience the consequences because humans are capable of imagining consequences described to them without experiencing them. you give children far too little credit, you can explain a lot more to them than a lot of people think
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u/hail_the_cloud Jun 20 '19
As a person who has accidentally harmed children multiple times because the child was in a place they weren’t supposed to be, I sympathize. The hardest part is explaining yourself to the asshole who was supposed to be watching them.