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[The Marchioness]

Hmmm - do just remind me again as to why that would be surprising at all! I nearly faint when I see the abysmal ignorance here in regards to child safety. It is NOT just the failure to buckle the sprout into a seatbelt. No! It is the mindboggling lack of care that drives me up the wall.

Example 1: a little kid, probably about 2 or three years old, wielding a huge pair of scissors on the roof next door; the parents were busy covering up their peppers with plastic sheets and the kid had the OPEN scissors pointed towards his eyes as he is going round and round the roof.

I couldn't stand to look any more and went back inside my apartment; had I called out to them in warning, the kid could have stabbed himself fatally or the parents could have been even sillier than they were already and ignored the little guy even more than they were doing already. Tough choice!

Example 2: a young mother giving her kid a fistful of peanuts, peanuts I ask you, while she hauls out the everlasting mirror to check out the minutest detail of her make-up. Right!!! The kid is slowly inhaling the peanuts and turning beet-red by choking while she is selecting the next pound of lipstick to apply. People had to grab the kid and turn him upside down, as she looks on - offended and then takes off with the kid who is getting a lungful of air, instead of a lungful of peanuts.


No, it's not up to the government to force people to be sensible; it is up to people to raise their level of awareness from that of a child to that of a responsible adult.

[Scott in HK]

Having spent four months this summer at my mother in law's in Korea...I know first hand the nonchalance that koreans seem to have when it comes to their kids.

But if we are going to just cite single cases of idiot parenting, then this is going to be easy...as that one woman left her kids in the car to die in America...or the other that was seen violently dragging her kid by the arm through the mall...

Scissors...good example...bad parenting.

Peanuts...giving to child...not bad parenting unless kid is too young...putting on make up while kid chokes...bad parenting...

Neither have anything to with the seatbelt/carseat thing...which is what I was talking about in my earlier post.

[rapier]

An infant in my town was run over last year. A terrible tragedy. Not sure what happened exactly but I'm prepared to conjecture that the kid crossed like thousands of his buddies do everyday, with zero precautions or fear of traffic. Cars tend to drive fairly slowly around town, so they can usually see the kids coming.
A friend of mine reckoned he saved a kid from drowning on a picnic- the adults were marching on ahead, and he was the only one to notice by chance that the child had missed her footing on the dodgy rope bridge and plunged into the water, and wasn't coming back up. he dived in to save the kid who emerged blue,and choking. The parents grabbed the child from him as if he'd somehow done something wrong. Insane. but then again in korea, the reckless, absurd and insane is normal. get used to it, because its pretty hard to change them.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[On the other hand]

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[quote]But, I thnk that the failure of the writer to follow this format is more of an oversight than an attempt to whitewash Korea