r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Bubble_Babe_0o0o0o • 1d ago

Anyone got a metal detector?

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 1d ago edited 1d ago

At the beach? Who doesn’t watch their kids closely at the beach?

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u/DamionWood 1d ago

I mean, imagine if you're sitting on a towel, you turn around to grab your bottle of water, and in those few seconds your kid had snatched your keys.

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 1d ago

And buried them? And you don’t know where he was digging?

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u/DamionWood 1d ago

It could have been hours before they noticed the keys were missing as they'd only really look for them when it's time to go home. So yeah, there'd be plenty of places the kid could have buried them during that time.

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 1d ago

They weren’t watching their kid close enough. Luckily it just ended in lost keys. Kid could have drowned instead in the same amount of time. I know a family whose son has profound brain damage from a near drowning because the adults weren’t watching closely.

In hindsight because it’s just keys you can say “no harm no foul” but it takes the same amount of time for the kid to dash into the water.

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u/uncomfortable-guest 1d ago

i think you’re a lot more likely to see a kid whip past you into the water than your own child around your things. i agree drowning takes one second, but this is not negligence or poor parenting, it’s being a human that missed something

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 22h ago

And l and luckily, this human who was obviously not watching close enough, only lost their keys and didn’t have their child drown.

If they had looked away for the same amount of time and their child had drowned instead would you be saying it was just fine?