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Japanese Schoolboy

SantaClaus
SantaClaus Posts: 7,722
in Not Sports Related
I love this story. The kids cheeky grin has made my morning. The dad's apology is something too.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/03/japanese-boy-yamato-tanooka-missing-forest-found-alive-punishment-parents

Comments

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,501
    Love it when a naughty kid is celebrated basically for being naughty :D
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,678
    Little toe rag. Nice ending.
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,839
    Little toe rag? Naughty kid?

    The child was probably behaving/acting up like any other seven year old does and his parents decided to abandon him in a forest! If anything I find this story worrying and certainly don't get a 'feel good' feeling from it.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,722
    edited June 2016
    FishCostaFortune said:

    Little toe rag? Naughty kid?

    The child was probably behaving/acting up like any other seven year old does and his parents decided to abandon him in a forest! If anything I find this story worrying and certainly don't get a 'feel good' feeling from it.

    The feel good part of the story was that I and most people who followed it assumed the kid was dead. It was nice to wake up to a smiling kid rather than a picture of a body bag being carried off a mountain.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,452
    Its a happy ending FFS... He could of been there 40 years and still come out shooting!
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,610
    This kid is going to have his parents over his barrel for the rest of his life. Every time he is messing about and his parents chastise him, "Heeeey, remember that time you left me in the forest? The one with, you know, all the bears? Remind me how long that was for again?" *Continues to kick grandma
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,839
    Don't get me wrong, I am very pleased the child was found alive and unhurt - however it is a situation he should have never been in, and who knows if there is going to be any long term mental damage.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Thought this thread title was going to be about the minimum experience expected by Katrien of our next manager...

    "Must have the managerial experience of a..."
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,089
    Fiiish said:

    Thought this thread title was going to be about the minimum experience expected by Katrien of our next manager...

    "Must have the managerial experience of a..."

    Surviving on his own for six days in a shed with just water and then coming out smiling shows more initiative, intelligence and wherewithal than any of RD's managerial appointments.
  • micks1950
    micks1950 Posts: 943
    Clearly a resourceful and resilient 7 year old to have found the army camp and survived there on his own for 7 days.

    I would have thought he's also got his parents over a barrel regarding his future behaviour - they'll think twice before they 'discipline' him again....

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  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    I'd have tied the little shit to a tree...
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The parents report their son to have been throwing stones at cars and people. Their choice was to abandon him.
    They could have attempted to change the scenario by everybody leaving. They could have tried to physically restrain him. They could have hit him or thrown stones at him. They could have tried to explain why his stone throwing was out of order.
    One way of explaining it was out of order to throw stones at people would be to invite empathy for them and how they would feel. They tried to say 'see what it's like to feel bad', and drove off.
    They made a bad judgement call, and it appears that the lad simply dealt with it, like a cat moving on to the next thing.
    Explaining, and encouraging children to have empathy is a time consuming task, and many parents short cut that with a slap instead.
    These parents tried their own version of a slap.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,709
    I don't know how true this is but apparently Hollywood are all over this already. In their version he's found when he's 13 and then gets shagged by his teacher..

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