Solihull tragedy

[Nearly Sane]

Horrendous, but tell your children not to go on literally thin ice.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-63944005

[Gordon]

It is horrendous - one of the boys who died was 8 and the boy in hospital is 6 yet, unless I'm missing something, the reports don't mention them being supervised by an adult, which surprises me given the ages of the two younger boys.

[Harrowby Hall]

Apparently, the eldest boy (who died) observed that the three others were in difficulty and went in to try to rescue them. A possible explanation for this is that there was no 0ne else supervising them.

Things have changed since i was a child. When i was very small - three years old - my mother would send me out to play because she did not want me "under her feet". I would be told to come back at tea time. This was in working-class Hyson green in Nottingham. The terraced streets were largely occupied by children in unsupervised play.

There was a specific incident when I was three. I was sent out to play. i wandered about a quarter of a mile from home and fell into the River Leen and so went home soaking wet. It was an incident that was well remembered by my mother because it was the day my brother was born.

[jeremyp]

It is horrendous - one of the boys who died was 8 and the boy in hospital is 6 yet, unless I'm missing something, the reports don't mention them being supervised by an adult, which surprises me given the ages of the two younger boys.

When my brother and I were eight and six, we often went out to play completely unsupervised.

[Aruntraveller]

Yep, I also remember going out to play at a relatively early age. I also remember, rather alarmingly in light of the recent news, walking out onto Vicars Water (near our home) when it was frozen over. As did a lot of kids.

[Nearly Sane]

Yep, I also remember going out to play at a relatively early age. I also remember, rather alarmingly in light of the recent news, walking out onto Vicars Water (near our home) when it was frozen over. As did a lot of kids.

And that's even with the scary children's information films.

[Nearly Sane]

And that's even with the scary children's information films.

https://youtu.be/XNPMYRlvySY

[jeremyp]

Yep, I also remember going out to play at a relatively early age. I also remember, rather alarmingly in light of the recent news, walking out onto Vicars Water (near our home) when it was frozen over. As did a lot of kids.

Yep So did I, although, to be fair, that kind of ended when a passing policeman gave me an absolute bollocking for it once.