My 9 year old recently asked me what "stop-drop-and-roll" was and I explained it was if you were on fire and she gave me a really skeptical look and asked, "did that happen a lot when you were a kid?"
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About as often as getting stuck in quicksand
Only needs to happen once in a lifetime. Grease fires are more common than you might think.
I imagine someone who wasn't taught stop drop and roll would just run around panicking. But probably a lot of people who were taught it as well.
I imagine it was also more common when people regularly had fires in their own homes. I bought that same child a pair of pajamas as a toddler that had a million warning tags about keeping them away from open flames because they weren't flame resistant... Not a problem, I tended to keep my babies away from open flames regardless.
My stepbrother was caught in a house fire as a teenager and he has third degree burn scars over like 60% of his body. Stop, drop and roll probably saved his life.
So it does happen, but it's always like there's this person who knows this guy that it happened to and not like it happened to everyone.
Children are fantastic at injuring themselves. My oldest, now grown, really wanted to touch the candle flame. No amount of removing him from the situation and telling him it was hot stopped him from trying to touch the fire. He learned the hard way. If he had panicked I could see him lightning himself on fire.
I can still remember the day i learned that the stove is hot. I was about 4 at the time, and i only got a 0.5cm blister on my thumb, but some things seemingly must be experienced to be internalized.
At that point you just gotta remove anything that he could use to make the situation worse, say "Please don't", and then let him touch the fire. And hopefully then he'll learn to listen some.
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When I was about 10, my dad asked me to light the fireplace. No big deal, I did that all the time at that point. I sat cross legged in front of the fireplace and struck the match like always. I was instantly reminded of the fact that I was wearing these really fuzzy wool plaid pajama pants as I was pretty instantly on fire when a stray spark hut them. All of that "stop drop and roll" training went out the window as I went into a complete panic and started to run. My dad had to tackle me and rip the pants off of me as I was still freaking out.
Great dad work! 100%
It was crazy. I never have worn pants like that again lol.
I'm not surprised; I'm glad that you are able to 'lol' about it now.
Getting stopped, dropped and de-panted is either a great or a terrible evening. There is no in-between
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The boomerfication of millennials is a sight to behold.
All young people find all old people quaint, this is nothing like a boomer humor, every generation does this. Boomer humor is more about hating your wife and blaming everything on every other generation.
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"Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." - Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption.
So, you've seen Boomers put down Gen-X, and Gen-X get in millennials, and now you're seeing millennials talking about the kids...
But you, you'll be immune!
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Eh, it's more like we're leaning into being old-heads now for the lols. Millennials don't do very many things without any ironic undertones.
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Everything on this list is still being taught to my kids (NZ). Phonics is still the best way to teach reading. Every new stupid fad dies out and they come back to phonics.
I'm pretty surprised they're learning cursive though. Wtf
I believe cursive is thaught because the hand makes repetitive movements that way, not because of how it looks. But since we barely need to write anything lengthy anymore i guess efficient writing isn't worth that much more than inefficient writing.
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I've been in & out of institutions thanks to my addiction to phonics. School got me hooked on the stuff.
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As someone who had to learn cursive in school, I dropped that shit literally as soon as they said we didn't need to use it anymore. Good riddance.
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Why is Stop Drop and Roll no longer being taught?
Far less open flames around your average household. Less fireplaces being used, electricity is far more available so it replaced candles, you don't see wood stoves pretty much ever anymore, and even gas stoves are being replaced with electric ones nowadays.
Fire used to be far more prevalent. Prometheus would be sad, at least until he discovers the fire emoji and tinder.
Plus flame-retardants in children's clothes and furniture are way more common than they used to be. So kids are seeing fewer fires, and when they do, they're less likely to get lit up.
Exactly, thought of that after finishing the comment. That, fire extinguishers, houses being less prone to fires, fire and electric code updates, smoke and fire alarms being so prevalent now, there are fewer and fewer children going up in flames nowadays.
They left out the duck and cover nuclear drills, analog black and white tv and rotary phones. Oh, and most house didn't have air conditioning.
Edit: Oops. Never mind i was thinking of my childhood in the 60's.
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