Parents: Your opinions please

[Boycey0211]

Just after a parents point of view really,

Recently saw a post on a community facebook site from a parent of a 3 year old who had some nettle stings asking who to complain to in order to get them cut down.

Just to make it clear this wasn't in a kiddies play park, it was on some ground that they had let their 3 year old run free in, the child was unharmed apart from the stings. The local park is well looked after I think with groundskeepers (seen them there before).

Now the first thing I though was that when I was a kid (not THAT long ago) I learned not to do things because of side effects like this, but my parents didn't run around calling for stuff to get chopped down when I played in them.

Obviously stuff like road safety and don't touch the cooker/drink bleach is taught by parents I imagine but not having spawn myself would you:

A) Complain, get offending shrubbery in wildland cut down, rinse and repeat for any future child related mishaps.

or:

B) Chalk it up to experience and let the child learn that playing in nettles hurts, and don't complain.


I just thought it was a massive overreaction to be honest.

 

[Guest2]

B. Nettles are not going to kill you and its a life lesson... there are many more to come!

I am not a parent but my parents would definately say the same.

 

[danza]

Slap parent with bunch of nettles around the arse and tell them to stop being such a massive wet lettuce.

 

[GeX]

Who would they complain to if a wasp stung them?

 

[gradyhawks]

Yes, a massive over reaction. The child hasn't been hurt (really) and he will now know that you shouldn't touch nettles.

I don't have kinds mind.. but have nieces and nephews and unless its actually going to do some harm they can learn the proper way through experience.

 

[danza]

Who would they complain to if a wasp stung them?

What's his name's dad on here. He kills them for a living, don't you know.

 

[koolpc]

I am a parent and i put it down to experience. My daughter knows not to go near them. Teach them early in life and hopefully they will learn. I stung myself 3 times last week pulling carrots that had stingies hidden between them!

 

[Caged]

B. Stop being a dick.

 

[John40]

All children should be pushed in a bed of nettles on a regular basis, they'll thank you for it when they're older for hardening them up a bit.

 

[Begbie]

Do you not just wipe them with some doocan (?) leafs and it fixes it? Least that's what my mum used to do, I'm pretty sure it never helped at all though. Also the parents need to get a grip.

 

[hyperseven]

Start a post on Mumsnet, AIBU , no doubt they will have some choice pearls of windows to bestow.

It's a bloody life lesson, if they get stung there is usually natures antidote knocking about, the dock leaf.

 

[peterwalkley]

Parent being stupid - probably dumped the kid to play and sat there paying zero attention while surfing facebook and other mindless drivel. I have zero sympathy.

Its a life lesson: Teach the child about dock leaves and if you are really that concerned about the nettles, go deal with them yourself you vapid eegit.

EDIT: Father of 2 girls, 10 and 7 btw.

 

[V F]

All children should be pushed in a bed of nettles on a regular basis, they'll thank you for it when they're older for hardening them up a bit.

If anything, kids opening itchy coos and dropping many down peoples backs was a lot worse than nettles.

http://retrodundee.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/itchy-coos.html

 

[Hades]

Find a dock leaf to wipe the sting with. Learn from the experience. Move on.

 

[arc@css]

B.

 

[Boycey0211]

Well I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one with the opinion of not complaining over it.

I made the mistake of voicing my opinion on the matter on the post itself and apparently im unreasonable, blokes saying it aswell not just panicky mothers. I'm probably a child killer too.

edit: when told 'why dont you do it yourself' this was the response:

I understand that, but I'd be there all day doing it and shouldn't have too specially if they should have sorted it already so I still need to bring it up again my son was covered from head to toe with stings

Well he wasn't exactly covered as she put pictures up too, think he got stung in 4/5 places?

 

[V F]

Find a dock leaf to wipe the sting with. Learn from the experience. Move on.

Kids/parents these days eh. Not remember the days when they (aged 5 - 11) played commandos in the forests/fields, you name it. Nettles were nothing. People grabbed lots of doken leafs just incase and continued. Older kids had shown them the ways if they got into trouble. Most of us wouldn't be home until sunset.

 

[arknor]

on a holiday to blackpool when I was a little boy, age unsure but likely around 6...
I needed a pee so my dad pulled over so I could relieve my self, I proceeded to urinate against one of my dads car wheels and my older sister pushed me off the side of the road into a massive patch of stinging nettles

 

[NexusK]

With such over-protective parents how are kids today supposed to know how to survive when the zombie apocalypse arrives?

 

[mushtafa]

B. This is how kids learn. This is how I learnt.
I remember playing in some overgrown bushes and falling into a lot of nettles. Hurt like hell! Found some dock leaves, went home feeling sorry for myself. Didn't do it again lol