Parenting licenses now, please!

[Dee]

This is bloody unbelievable!

Another child falls out window (http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e18a9732-c1ee-4d9d-a949-087bf08987d7&k=85588)

The Ottawa Citizen

Thursday, July 05, 2007

A week after a three-year-old boy fell to his death from the 15th floor of an apartment, another child has fallen out a window.

Paramedics responded to a call Thursday morning after a nine-month old girl fell out a second-storey window at Blair and Innes Roads at about 8 a.m.

Paramedics said a bed had been placed against a second-storey bedroom window and the top of the bed was the same height as the bottom of the window, allowing the child to crawl to the window, which had been left open. The girl fell four metres when the screen gave way.

Paramedics treated the child for head injuries and minor scrapes and bruises. She is in stable condition in hospital.

On June 25th, Gawain Moorcroft, 3, fell from a window of a public housing building at 1465 Caldwell Ave.

:mad:

[Darlene]

Yes Dee I agree but would would that end up as controlled breading. Maybe like controlled breeding of licensed livestock. Only the parents intelligent enough to pass the parenting test could breed offspring that would be intelligent enough to pass the next parenting class. Now granted, there would be a few offspring that could not pass the test. But then it would help even more to purify the human race.
I know that is full of bull sh*t but with President Bush it could happen but he and his family and friends would be exempt of course. But eventually they would get erased too because we know how stupid he and his friends are.

Now enough of that silliness! Yes Dee I think that parents should have to take a parenting class with common sense questions and if they don't pass those questions then they must take a test again. Of course with the way the world is populating it will take a pretty long time to test everyone. The Catholics parents have to take a class before they give birth, just some classes about raising their children with morals and raising them in the church.
I don't know what the answer is but our children need a lot more supervision. I have watched a daughter of a friend of mine, she has four children. Those children are left to their own devices. She is a listened school teacher waiting for the youngest to grow old enough for her to go back to work. It scares me to death to watch those children. There is no way I would have let my children go unattended like that. Oh, of course she is a teacher she should know better has had a college degree and experience in teaching 2nd graders. She could have passed any parenting test but are her children safe. Her oldest has had a broken leg and has a nasty scare on his face, her second is in a cast now for a broken ankle. Her middle child has major allergies one one them chocolate but he get it anyway. He also has a tendency to wander off and it make take you twenty minutes to find him. the youngest just had a cast remove from her (she just had her first birthday) leg after it was broken in several places. Her brothers and sister were tossing her off the top bunk of a bunk bed into a pile of pillows. And she could defiantly pass a parenting class. OH Well, OH Hell!
I am tired all this thinking lately is wearing me out!
Peace, Darlene

[sky]

Putting a bed by a window and leaving the window open is NOT the brightest idea!!! They should make those safety things for windows in tall buildings that have families living in them mandatory. Are they that expensive?? But it is hard to raise children. I have four and in September will have my fifth. Just because a child gets injured it doesn't mean they have bad parents--- unless of course you want to keep them in a huge plastic bubble or something. My 5 year fell of his bike last week and got 10 stitches in his knee--and yes he had a helmet on. Alas that is life. I want him to have fun and enjoy life. I think some young parents just think nothing bad will ever happen to them, or their family--and then the older parents that have already raised their children seem to think they raised them perfectly----when I seriously doubt that. Even my own dysfunctional parents seem to think they did a fabulous job raising us and only remember things the way that it is easiest for them to tolerate.

I used to be an expert on parenting until I had my own kids!!!!.

Sky

[Darlene]

Yes I was an expert too sky until I raised mine. They are twenty-six now and I am starting a new experience helping raise my granddaughter with lots of love and a close eye. It's more fun with grandchildren!
Peace, Darlene

[DaveM]

If all attempts to make this a hazard-free world were removed, perhaps dumb people would simply fall into deep holes before they became old enough to have children. Or at least remove themselves from the planet without taking anyone else with them.

I believe I have mentioned it before, but c. 1990, an old friend visited Switzerland. She went on a hiking tour in the mountains. At one point the trail led along the edge of a steep drop, but there was no guard rail, warning sign, or anything of the sort.

Some American asked why there was no guardrail.

Their guide replied: "Because the Swiss have sense".

[Dee]

There’s a world of difference between a child encountering the scrapes and bruises of being a kid, and having parents who are so brainless and so blind that they invite harm to a child.

I believe that parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world, and no, I am not one. I opted not to have or adopt children. However, it doesn’t take an Einstein to recognise neglect or abuse or even common stupidity.

Even a really stupid person would be able to predict that putting the bed of a nine-month-old baby directly level to an open window is inviting disaster.

[aabram]

Luckily all three of mine are grown up now, but even if they hadn't been, I would still never have been stupid enough to do something like this, leaving at least an 18" gap between bed and window.

I believe parenting to be the hardest job in the world to get it right. After all anyone can be a parent. That said, though, it is also the most rewarding when you DO get it right.

[sister rose]

It's more fun with grandchildren!
Peace, Darlene

I couldn't agree more! :D