Risk assessment The Boy has a day off school on Monday. This time I have not forgotten
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it's an inset day. Instead of taking him with me to work as I would
normally I organised to take the day off last week so we could have
some time together in town before he goes off on his holidays with his
grand-parent.
Last week as we were walking hom from after school club I questionned
him on where he would like to go. Many of the suggestions were turned
down as "seen it a zillion times already". Then a quick thought. He has been to Portsmouth recently for Seabritain 2005 with his school so The Greenwich Maritime Museum sprung to mind. He has been before for the Tintin exhibition but did not see the Observatory. Perfect.
light of yesterday's events I toyed with the idea of cancelling the
leave and postponing the outing, but part of me is angry and thinking
"why should I let these people think they can change the way I live my
life?". Instead I looked at the plan and the services which are running
as normal and presented the plan for the day to The Boy tonight when I
took him to bed expecting him to be exited at the prospect of a trip to
Waterloo, a walk along the Thames to Tower Bridge, a quick tube journey
on the Jubilee Line to Greenwich and returning to the Station on the
DLR and a Thames Clipper.
excitment on his solemn 8 year old little face, just worry. So we had a
talk about bad things happen but how you can't let the worry about bad
things happening stop you from living your life else you would never
even get out of your front door and life would be very dull indeed. We
talked about risk and how there is no such thing as risk free and about
enjoying what you have and making the most of times of freedom.
wish I could give hime the sheltered childhood I had where concepts
like war, famine, death, disease and mindless violence were vague and
distant, but I can't.
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(9.7.05 20:29)  Sad the age we live in isn't it? The more civilised we get, the less we want to trample over belgium every few years, the more we want to respect other human beings, the more such evil people want to get at us. They will never win. Hope you and he have an excellent day despite it all x |
