Riding with a stranger |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: amusement parks, amusementparks, roller coaster, rollercoaster, stranger, strangers |
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Filed under: Health and Safety, 5 years, 6-7 years, Amusement parksThere's a fine line between keeping your kids safe and instilling an unhealthy, anti-social fear of anyone they don't know. It can be a very tough call, sometimes. My general rule of thumb is that the kids are free to talk to anyone they like when Rachel or I are with them. If we're not there, however, strangers are off-limits.With that in mind, I'm not sure just how I feel about something that happened last week when we were at Great America for my company's annual picnic. I was standing in line with Jared and Sara waiting to ride the Taxi Jam, a kids' roller coaster. Sara wasn't tall enough to ride it alone, but she could ride with Jared, so I figured they could go together, allowing me to avoid trying to squeeze my fat carcass into one of the junior-sized cars.While we were waiting, a boy about Jared's size came up to me somewhat hesitantly and, after some prodding from his mother, asked if he could ride the roller [ Full article ] |
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