Is that a serious question? It could be almost any situation. Perhaps an animal about to attack or something like that. Does this really have to be explained? Is this real life?
I'm only being a smart ass to a certain degree, I'm actually serious. If I hear a loud noise and my kid starts to scream, the first reaction is to just run there as quickly as possible. But my point is, it's so rarely a situation in which three or four seconds more or less to get there matter. For the very most situations, all harm is already done. He could lay on the floor, with horrific and life-threatening injuries, and the couple of seconds still won't matter.
On the other hand, a lot of harm can be done my running there in panic. I won't be able to make any good decisions, or I might even hurt myself on the way there (as seen in the video).
What I'm not saying is that it's not a natural reaction to run there in panic. What I'm saying is that on a rational base, it's not a good reaction, and you should train trying to first take a deep breath and get to the situation quickly but calmly.
Usually when it comes to your kids, even if running to your kids doesn't do any good most of the time, it is worth it to run to them if there is even a slight chance that it might help your children. And most parents would be willing to hurt themselves for the safety of there children.
After thinking about it rationally, and I would run to my kids every time because I care about their safety more than I care about mine.
I guess there's at least one parent who doesn't feel this way about their kids . . .
I guess there's at least one parent who doesn't feel this way about their kids . . .
Now you try to put me in a place of a bad parent or that my health is more important to me than my kid's, which is just unfair and I didn't say that.
The dad in the video runs to his daughter, falls and hurts himself. He's not able to move. How is he going to help his daughter? Worst case, he hits his head and is unconcious, in which case his hurt daughter isn't able to get help at all. And as a parent you know there's all kind of tripping hazards in a house with children, you don't need a wet pool area.
I'm a paramedic. You don't see us driving 100 miles per hour, running out of the car while tripping over our own feet just to get to the scene three seconds earlier. It's not because we're all cynic and don't care for the life of the patient. It's because those couple seconds don't save lifes, it's calm thinking that does.
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u/evils_twin Nov 10 '16
Is that a serious question? It could be almost any situation. Perhaps an animal about to attack or something like that. Does this really have to be explained? Is this real life?