Knowing Where Your Kids Are...

Three have died it’s an appalling thing the lack of warnings for parents and children is a big problem, this cold snap has gone on for a few days.
I‘ve not seen any warnings on TV maybe now we’ll. get some hope the little one will make it he’s very poorly, the parents will be heartbroken.
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Been thinking what you said and your absolutely correct


I grew up in the 80's and during the summer holidays my mum worked in a pub during the day as she was a single parent and in the morning she would give me and my brother £2-3 for the day and that was it. We wouldn't see her again until 5pm. I was told to look after my brother who is 3 years younger than me and that was it. We'd do whatever we wanted.

Living in Blackley that normally meant walking half an hour to Heaton Park and spending all day there with our mates getting up to all sorts of stuff with no way of contacting my mum if anything happened.

There is no way I would let my lad do that now.
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We’d be swimming in the lake on the golf course in the early 80’s and Christ how I got away with nothing bad happening I’ll never now.

RIP to these poor little kids, bet we’ve all stood on a frozen lake at some point if we’re over 50, just what we did in those days, stupidity really when you look back.
 
manimanc said:
God this has killed me, I just can't stop the tears. I keep thinking of my own kids and it being them.
So close to Christmas, it's absolutely broke my heart, what must their parents be going through? You can't even begin to imagine their hurt.

Was that right the coppers tried punching the ice to get them out? It sounds like they've gone under then drifted under ice that hadn't gone through.

God this is awful.
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Yeah, think it was the Fire Service though but I might have misheard.
It must have been a bloody awful and desperate scene for all involved. I thought the Police guy at the press interview, in particular, looked dreadful.
 
mackenzie said:
You think you're immortal when you're a kid. When I look back to what I managed to do as a kid aged 8 (swimming in a local stream with friends), I can obviously see now how dangerous that was. My parents didn't have a clue, and I was adept at lying about where I had been.
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yep around that age we'd be jumping off roofs into bushes, getting lost in woods, remember crossing train tracks with my bro, so many dangerous stuff. Mum just thought we was at local park playing footie.
 
manimanc said:
God this has killed me, I just can't stop the tears. I keep thinking of my own kids and it being them.
So close to Christmas, it's absolutely broke my heart, what must their parents be going through? You can't even begin to imagine their hurt.

Was that right the coppers tried punching the ice to get them out? It sounds like they've gone under then drifted under ice that hadn't gone through.

God this is awful.
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Just heard the Fire Brigades press conference before and the spokesperson said they got there to find Police and members of the public already in the lake, sounds like it was just an horrendous situation for everyone around.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
yep around that age we'd be jumping off roofs into bushes, getting lost in woods, remember crossing train tracks with my bro, so many dangerous stuff. Mum just thought we was at local park playing footie.
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I think my parents thought I was still at my friend's house. We were crafty though, we would just tell her mum we were going out on our bikes for a bit and then off we would go to that stream every day during the summer holidays.
Something very uncomfortable happened there once though (which I won't go into here, but it involved an older boy who saw two young girls alone) and that made us find somewhere else to go.

I do look back fondly though on being out and about in the fresh air as a kid. Good way to learn about the world. However, all it takes is a few minutes for that to change.
 
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