DS aged 6 ran accross a road just to be funny....I showed him liveleak.......

[Twelvelegs]

My dcs have always been really good near the roads, always stop when asked and never run accross, we live in a busy city. Only a couple of time lately ds aged 6 has been a bit silly, letting go of dh's hand and running accross (which I let him do when I say, but this was without permission). We were out for the day and to be 'funny' my ds ran across a small road without looking, near a corner, and seconds later a car came speeding around. Any sooner and it would have got ds who was oblivious as was busy with na na na na ner behaviour.
When we got home I showed him a car accident on Liveleak where someone got run over, not too graphic and only enough to get the gist.
Is that a bit much for a six year old? Only he's my oldest of three with another on the way and they can't all hold the pushchair!

[Twelvelegs]

Any other suggestions??

[AlienSwampMonster]

Poor you - it's stomach-churning when stuff like that happens. But good idea to show graphic example - in my opinion anyway - I don't think they can be too young to learn that extinct is for ever.

[Doodle2U]

Sorry 12legs - I don't know what liveleak is, so can't comment. Can you link to it?

I think being shown what the consequences could be is more potent and better for drumming the message in to them than just words (mummy and daddy nagging).

[Twelvelegs]

I showed 15 seconds

[DoubleBluff]

I can't believe that such footage is on the internet - didn't want t view it thanks.
CAn't beleive u wld want to show it to a child.

[TheTeaspoonLady]

The images show a completely different scenario to the one that your DS got into today.

That footage is inappropriate for a 6 yo, imo, and it isn't relevant to what he did.

I can understand that you were scared by his behaviour, and need to get the point about road safety across to him.

I wouldn't have done it this way, though.

[Hulababy]

Have to say that although I think the idea of showing them the consequences of the actions, I actually think that video is a bit too much for most 6y. It would have freaked my 6y DD out completely.

[TheTeaspoonLady]

The liveleak website is vile.

[AlienSwampMonster]

Ugh - should have checked to see what liveleak was before commenting.

[suwoo]

Are you for real twelvelegs????? I thought I sometimes treated my DD 'maturely' but would never show her this- she would be seriously disturbed.

[LynetteScavo]

Maybe show him this?

[DoubleBluff]

triptrap

[Hulababy]

Maybe a child based road safety website might be more appropriate for reminding your Ds about crossing the road, etc. Something likes this perhaps: www.hedgehogs.gov.uk/main/main.html

There are others if you google.

[Hulababy]

Maybe a child based road safety website might be more appropriate for reminding your Ds about crossing the road, etc. Something likes this perhaps: Hedgehogs

There are others if you google.

[Thomcat]

The Green Cross Code is designed for children, not a graphic video of people being mown down and killed.

If you're not a troll you should be.

[Twelvelegs]

My child knows the green cross code and crosses the road nicely, he ran to be 'brave' and 'funny'. He can tell me perfectly the green cross code, he can tell me what could happen if he runs and yet he still ran accross the road....
He watched up to impact and nothing more from this he could see how fast a car hits another, he did not know anyone got run over he just saw a real smash. Probably the first 13 seconds. Is it really that bad????

[TheTeaspoonLady]

I think you know it is bad, twelvelegs.
It's indefensible.

[Twelvelegs]

Did anyone watch the clip, the first 13 seconds only.... pretend you didn't know that anyone was run over do you think you'd even know?

[LynetteScavo]

Actually, I think "acted" road safty ad's shown in this country are more horrific and tought provocing. It's the fact that this is a real person being killed that in in bad taste. I don't think your DS will be traumatised by seeing that accident, I'm not sure it will stop him running across roads either.

[Twelvelegs]

He was sat 4 ft away from the PC and neither he nor I saw the person at the back go into the air [oops emocion]. We just looked at the front of the car.

[Twelvelegs]

Perhaps I should have checked out other sites, I was just so frightened. I had two friends at school who were run over, one killed at 7 years.

[margoandjerry]

I am not seeing anything too bad in the first 15 secs. The really nasty bit happens later. I think twelvelegs is saying she showed the first bit?

Am a bit confused tbh but I don't think it's too bad. Not sure how much it would help but not "indefensible".

[eenybeeny]

then what would be the point of showing him?

anyway what the clip showed had nothing to do with a child running across a road. It was a car accident.

[Hulababy]

I don't see the purpose of showing him the video. It is a completey differet scenario (i.e not someone running out into a road) ad shows adults, not children.

And yes, I think it is clear on the video that someone is hit by the car. Not nice viewing.

There are other clips of cars crashing (i. crash tests, etc) using dummies, inc showing pedestrains that would demonstrate this clearly, without showing a real life impact of someone being quite possibly killed.

I personally would not show my 6y it.

[Hulababy]

Twelevelegs - s what was the purpose thn, if not to show him what happens when a cr hits someone?

Have you told your DS about your friend? That may have more effect.