Ds 13 paragliding abroad ?

[snowballupahill]

CRA / shared residency, most likely used legitimate insured provider. Legally nothing I can do - right?

Legally what are you wanting to do?!

Has he done the paragliding already? Or are you wanting to prevent it?

ds wouldn’t have the imagination to understand the potential downside of it if it went wrong. I’m not risk averse they go downhilling/skiing etc just wonder what’s next basejumping?? Ds didn’t look particularly happy either.. like I said no options that I can see. Clearly if provider legitimate presumably with insurance - can’t stop his df waiving any risks etc

It’s happened already but not back in the country for another week so guess he could repeat again?

is it possible to prevent? I had no idea this was going to happen.

Tbh it just sounds like a fairly common holiday activity - if he's someone that goes skiing that's also quite risky, not sure a wild imagination of dangerous outcomes of paragliding would make much difference?

Is there an issue with his DF that means you're taking more from this situation that comes across? As someone with zero background knowledge it just sounds a bit mad from your end. No court in the UK will issue a ban to all paragliding providers in a holiday location to prevent your DS doing it again 🤷🏻‍♀️

You want to prevent your son from already having gone paragliding...? No, that's not possible.

If you could prove it was dangerous and they did not have adequate insurance you may be able to prevent it from happening on future trips, I don't see you getting an emergency court order to stop any other activities in the next week though.

No, nothing you can do. I'd imagine skiing is more risky. I'm assuming no one has actually forced your DS.

If your son doesn't want to do it then he needs to stand up for himself. That's the only way.

Good learning opportunity for him. No one can make him do anything he doesn't want to do.

I think you need to get him to start to speak up if he doesn’t want to do that, including situations where he gets carried away with enthusiasm and only starts to think “actually I don’t want to” later on.

is his Dad the sort of person who will goad if he says no?

Really? It’s actually not. Skiing is not risk free, but the rate of being left dead/paralyzed is much high with aerial sports.

In the resort I've just been in paragliding was done as passengers with someone up there with you. Pretty safe as these things go. It was around 100 euros though so I'd be surprised if they make a repeat visit!

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566014/#!po=34.0000

not pleasant reading.

Completely understand your perspectives. Thanks for your advice kind of confirmed what I thought. Just thought I’d check the AIBU or not. From an insurance point of view guess ds’s df would be mad/stupid if he didn’t have sufficient cover or understood the extent of insurance cover provided by the company to cover mishaps/accidents as that’s what it’s for.
DS would be aware of coerced anyway (by definition)

Sorry should read wouldn’t be aware..

If coerced anyway..

Unless ds is nd surely he can grasp the risk involved and protest if not happy?

Thank you all - report is a bit of an eye-opener. X

His DF had made a choice that 1000s do every year, I've done it with my DSs, they loved it.

Surprised your DS didn't look happy, most down hill skiers are fairly brave and would love it?

I've been paragliding numerous times and it's not as thrilling as it looks which may be why your DS didn't look happy. Once u are up in the air it's quite relaxing so he may have thought it was going to be more wild... Still not really sure of the point of your post though? What are you worried about? What outcome do u want?