Lantley wrote:
Somehow I expect the kid to recognize the RV was not a playground and the ladder was not a set of monkey bars. Did any of the adults climb the ladder?
Could the kid not comprehend that the family was checking out grandpa's RV and that he should stay with the adults vs. going off on his own. The kids was 8 not 3. At that point he is old enough to comprehend the situation and understand right from wrong.
I guess everyone was raised differently. I guarantee my kids would have not behaved that way and neither would I.
But at the end of the day maybe I was disciplined and raised to adhere to a higher standard.
Yes, he's 8 not 3. Why would he need to stand at attention at his parents' side all that time? He was just looking around.
How is that wrong? How does that equate to him not being disciplined? How does that equate to his not knowing right from wrong?
Somehow I doubt that the majority of folks on this forum would have known at 8 years old that a trailer ladder was not for climbing up to walk on the roof. And I doubt most would have thought they were doing something so obviously wrong by doing that.
But then I'm not 188 years old with a brain so wizzened it can't remember being a kid.
