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StealThisSheen posted...

I feel like there's a miscommunication, because it wasn't even a fear of punishment. I just... Knew I had no idea what I was doing, because my parents taught me, at a young age, how complicated the oven could be, so I never felt the urge to try something I didn't know how to do. I don't know the full context, but I feel like that was Dude's point. You have to teach your kids to respect the capability of something, so that they don't just fear punishment, but they also recognize the actual danger, instead of just blaming something else.

But again, it doesn't account for all kids. You can have one kid that will take those lessons to heart and you'll have another kid who will think they know better and end up doing something dumb and getting hurt. Even raising them the same way that can and does happen. I'm sure you get how you can have different people react completely differently to any sort of situation or even explanation, kids are the same way.

As an example, when I was a kid both myself and my best friend were absolutely taught to not fuck around with fireworks. Me? I never fucked around with fireworks, I used them responsibly and by the instructions. My friend? He didn't learn the lesson until he cut open a roman candle, dumped out the gunpowder and threw a match in, except the match kept blowing out so he cupped his hand around it and then did it and poof he got severe burns on his hands and singed his eyebrows and his dad had to wipe his ass until his burns healed and let me tell you that he didn't fuck around with fireworks again after that.

Simply explaining things to kids doesn't always work, it all depends on the sort of person the kid is and how receptive they're going to be. Some kids yeah, no problem. Others? Oh, it's going to be a problem.