A woman came to my school and talked about how when she was a teen living in San Francisco, her mom made her volunteer at a soup kitchen in a sketchy area, and she said she'd been physically assaulted, slammed against a wall by a homeless person when she was there. How can you risk your child's safety like that? It's really irresponsible to me
Is it selfish for a parent to put their underage child in an unsafe situation for the sake of "learning to sympathize with the less fortunate"?
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You can either
1. Teach them values in a different and safer way
Or
2. Come with them if you really want to show them. If its that necessary then the parent is also responsible for watching out for their own kid in that situation.
Everything else is just irresponsible. I can understand the reasoning behing it, but the execution should also be appropriate.
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A woman came to my school and talked about how when she was a teen living in San Francisco, her mom made her volunteer at a soup kitchen in a sketchy area, and she said she'd been physically assaulted, slammed against a wall by a homeless person when she was there. How can you risk your child's safety like that? It's really irresponsible to me
Yeah, that’s for sure irresponsible of the mother.
Is that the Tenderloin area in SF by any chance?
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That should be a given
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Yeah, that’s for sure irresponsible of the mother.
Is that the Tenderloin area in SF by any chance?
she didn't say
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I understand that parents want to teach their kids responsibility and gratitude, but this plan clearly wasn't well thought out. It would have been preferable and safer to let her have a job in retail or a volunteering opportunity elsewhere.
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I don’t know about selfish, but it’s irresponsible.
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probably not selfish but definately irresponsible like elf_lover said above
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