6yr old grandson suspended from school

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Pulled out a bic lighter he brought from home and showing off to other kids and set fire to some leaves on the playground. Miniature burn nothing damaged BUT School was not amused and zero toleranced him.
My daughter is on the verge of mommacide with her boys. She had just busted her 12yr old and the 6 yr old both for building a campfire in a firepit at a friend's yard without permission last week. She explained fire ban conditions and the need for permission. Lots of disrespectful back talk and failure to do as told on house manners has been a problem of late. She said if she started hitting them she might lose her cool so she has avoided spanking. She is a great boy's mom but their hooligan attitude has her bent.
I told her to confiscate their BB guns and tell them I saiď being stupid with fire means no guns to have fun with.
She asked me what else. I will be there next week and I will take him to the fire station and let the firemen tell him just how serious it is. I did that with my daughters over candle safety issues in their room when they were young. Scared them good. No more careless candles.
I have had to debride a burned kid who had playing with gas when I worked at St Francis. Burned kids is the worst.
I burned the seat cover of my mom's 1958 Chevy with a magnefying glass out of crackerjax. She was madder than hell and beat me and both of my brother's butts in the grocery store parking lot to make sure it never happened again. No wonder my brothers dont like me...
 

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When i did stuff like that I got whooped pretty good. Glad I did too because could have hurt someone the things we tried to do. It's the kinda stuff boys do until they get disciplined. Probably need to be more strict with them all around. Might not be fun but will save trouble.
 
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When I caught my sons playing with matches, I took them to a campground with fire rings, and we played with fire.
They are curious about the unknown, so used it instead of a swat as a teaching moment.
Told them anytime they wanted to play with fire, just let me know and we would do whatever they wanted within reason to satisfy their curiosity. We melted glass bottles, melted soda cans, and then showed them the proper way to put out a fire so it wouldn't be a danger after leaving it.
After the first time, they never messed with fire again that I'm aware of anyway.
 

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When I caught my sons playing with matches, I took them to a campground with fire rings, and we played with fire.
They are curious about the unknown, so used it instead of a swat as a teaching moment.
Told them anytime they wanted to play with fire, just let me know and we would do whatever they wanted within reason to satisfy their curiosity. We melted glass bottles, melted soda cans, and then showed them the proper way to put out a fire so it wouldn't be a danger after leaving it.
After the first time, they never messed with fire again that I'm aware of anyway.
How about the effects of an empty Right Guard aerosol can in a 55 gallon burn barrel? Don't tell me you didn't love burning the trash when you knew one of those cans was in there! :)
 
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How about the effects of an empty Right Guard aerosol can in a 55 gallon burn barrel? Don't tell me you didn't love burning the trash when you knew one of those cans was in there! :)
Wife's hair spray cans were really interesting. Time after time told her to set those aside so they would get a .22rf before going to the burn barrel, but NOOOOOO.
BOOM! Burning trash everywhere!
 

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