Duty of care? Or personal responsibility - harsh but fair
Emarr has now closed all the swimming pools on their properties under orders of the municipality, depriving the Weasel of the only leisure facility he uses, and one of the few compensations for living on the set of Dune 2.
There is the promise that they may reopen in March though we are all aware of their track record on deadlines.
On the surface this looks reasonable, following the tragic death of a five year old girl in a Springs pool the municipality are insisting that the pools have lifeguards, but we need to look at this in a wider context.
Far too often here there is a knee jerk reaction to any press pressure or even rumor, now the parents of the little girl that died are naturally upset and of course cannot see, or don't want to accept, that only they are in the end responsible for the safety of their children.
Sure blaming the municipality, Emarr or whoever makes them feel better about their loss, but it is wrong.
I'm sorry but you didn't watch your child, no one is saying this was intentional, it was an accident, but you cannot blame someone else.
Far too often people in this country (and others) abdicate responsibility for the care of their children to others, maids in particular can be seen gathered at the playgrounds or in the malls with their charges. But you have to acknowledge that the responsibility in the end is still the parent's.
As the Weasel understands the facts, the little girl drowned while her parents we there at the pool, whether this was because she couldn't swim at all, in which case she should not have been there, or whether she got into difficulty and no-one noticed is irrelevant, if you take your offspring to the pool you are responsible for them, end of story.
More to the point I resent being made to pay for the inability of some to care for their own children. All the pools are fenced with kid proof locks that should be enough.
Now for those not living under the heel of Emarr this currently appears to be irrelevan,t but if you live in a compound or building with a pool this will affect you.
All pools everywhere will need guards, in the end you'll be lucky to be able to take a bath without having some dude in yellow and red sitting on the end of it.
There is the promise that they may reopen in March though we are all aware of their track record on deadlines.
On the surface this looks reasonable, following the tragic death of a five year old girl in a Springs pool the municipality are insisting that the pools have lifeguards, but we need to look at this in a wider context.
Far too often here there is a knee jerk reaction to any press pressure or even rumor, now the parents of the little girl that died are naturally upset and of course cannot see, or don't want to accept, that only they are in the end responsible for the safety of their children.
Sure blaming the municipality, Emarr or whoever makes them feel better about their loss, but it is wrong.
I'm sorry but you didn't watch your child, no one is saying this was intentional, it was an accident, but you cannot blame someone else.
Far too often people in this country (and others) abdicate responsibility for the care of their children to others, maids in particular can be seen gathered at the playgrounds or in the malls with their charges. But you have to acknowledge that the responsibility in the end is still the parent's.
As the Weasel understands the facts, the little girl drowned while her parents we there at the pool, whether this was because she couldn't swim at all, in which case she should not have been there, or whether she got into difficulty and no-one noticed is irrelevant, if you take your offspring to the pool you are responsible for them, end of story.
More to the point I resent being made to pay for the inability of some to care for their own children. All the pools are fenced with kid proof locks that should be enough.
Now for those not living under the heel of Emarr this currently appears to be irrelevan,t but if you live in a compound or building with a pool this will affect you.
All pools everywhere will need guards, in the end you'll be lucky to be able to take a bath without having some dude in yellow and red sitting on the end of it.
posted by Desert_Weasel at 12:00 pm
1 Comments:
you do realise that a cut of your internet bill goes to some company in america which decides what is suitable and not?
again, blame the everyone rather than people who can't supervise their children...
To me it seems that there are far too many people in Dubai who decide to have children yet are unable to take responsibility of them.
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