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my son burnt our house down at 4 years old, hasn't done it since LOL
i was at work, and my wife was taking care of my daughter downstairs feeding her, while my son was supposed to be watching cartoons, for that small amount of time. Next thing you know he's caught our bed on fire. You can't watch em all the time every waking hour, anyone that says that doens't have kids (notice the 's'). My son knows better now, but it was a great expense for his learning not to. There are things i would of done differently, looking back hindsight is 20/20.
Main thing is to simply talk to my son more about it. I did tell him fire is bad, etc... the normal parent stuff. However, I wish I would of done it more and been clearer about the reprocussions of it. With older kids, maybe a trip to the burn unit could help, at 4 i thought my son was a bit young but at 7 there would of been no question in my mind.
We do watch our kids, very well, just one of those things that happened. We had had the talk that fire is bad and dangerous, but you cant do what we did back in the days, where my father would of simply set me aside and burnt my finger with a lighter, which at a young age would of then sunk in, 'hey this could hurt me'. LOL
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