Of all the things my son has ruined, my ability to sleep for a whole night is the one I miss the most. And I don’t even think that was an accident on his behalf – it’s just one of those things that babies do. Then they grow up and have real accidents.
Kids climb into zoo enclosures when they shouldn’t, they steal Chupa Chups from the supermarket checkout when we aren’t looking, they put toast in the DVD player (in the good old days when we had such things), they break toys (sometimes willfully), they cut their siblings hair and make them look like they need special attention and they eat the dog food. They are kids, they do stuff like that. And more. If you have a kid you know that they’ve done some spectacular shit that you try to laugh about after some simmering down time has passed.
And adults are not that different. They say things they shouldn’t, they reverse into poles they didn’t know were there, sometimes they even drive forwards into other cars or walls without really meaning to. Grown ups sometimes text people messages meant for someone else and they often forget to take out meat for dinner.* We all make mistakes. Some way worse than those I have mentioned.
And now a five-year-old boy who went off to see a lego exhibition in a popular shopping centre in China has had his mistake made public .
News.com.au reports
“…at least four or five children ignored the safety barrier put up around the sculpture, reports said, and one five-year-old placed his hand on the sculpture while posing for a photo and accidentally pushed it over.
Just like that, Zhao’s work shattered on the hard ground of the shopping mall floor, with the teacher saying he felt particularly upset because he did not expect it to be destroyed so quickly.
“It took a lot of effort building the sculpture, especially the eyes. I had to change it a lot of times,” he said.
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The boy’s father is said to have apologised to Zhao after the incident, but the teacher sympathised and said he would not be seeking compensation for the loss.Zhao said: “The boy is young, and besides the staff are responsible too for not keeping an eye on the sculpture.”
Reports said only about one-third of the Lego fox can be salvaged, as Zhao had glued many of the pieces together to keep them in place.”
Now this accident, coming hot on the hills of gorilla-gate, will have thousands of armchair Lego experts walking delicately amid the toy most likely to inflict pain on bare feet, and pointing fingers at the parents of a child who dared to take their son to see a Lego exhibition. Clearly this shows a degree of neglect that needs to be investigated (in case you missed it that was written in sarcasm font).
I’m not for one second saying that we should let our kids go around climbing into animal enclosures and touching exhibition displays, but nor should we keep them locked indoors or tied to our apron strings so they cannot learn from and explore the world. Children will be children (I sound 750) and they will make mistakes, they will have accidents. Sometimes they will be awful and have dreadful and tragic consequences (RIP Harambe) and sometimes they will just require a shit load of spray and wipe.
But trying to find the person on whom to cast blame just negates the time we could be using to ensure that we learn from our mistakes. Sometimes things happen and shouting at someone or trying to investigate their past will teach us nothing other than an accident happened like it so easily could have happened to us.
* you may find a lot of these examples relate more to me than to anyone else.