Children need to learn risk - chuck them on a mountain!

[Hooli]

kowalski655 said:

Anywhere to anywhere else by Catalina would be awesome

Lucky damn kids, they'll learn more about life than I ever did at school.

[JuniorD]

Doing this sort of weekend warrior stuff explicitly to teach about risk is a load of st.

You do it for an number of reasons, the craic, team work, a change of environment, new skills, see a polar bear etc. but specifically "risk"? The degree of risk is totaly intrinsic, and probably very well quantifiable and managed in their situation. You don't need to go to the arctic to learn risk. He might as well have sent them to eat a kebab from a dirty takeaway or spend 12 hours walking about a sink estate in their nice clothes.

That said, it's a newspaper report so probably much hyperbole and misrepresentation of the facts.

[carinaman]

Moonhawk said:

carinaman said:

There was much hand wringing from BRAKE! the other week about how casualities on the roads have gone up.

What - you mean despite ever more speed cameras and the wholesale reduction in limits.....casualties have gone up?

It almost suggests speed(ing) may not be the root cause of the majority of accidents doesn't it?

Or it's a MacGuffin to push some other agenda, arguably like this article being a bit of a PR puff piece.

Regarding WW2 Flying Boats, does anyone know if that one that founded on the beach in the Gulf of Mexico has been rescued? Catalina's are quite cool, but they're not surfboards.

[Beati Dogu]

No, apparently it broke up as they were trying to salvage it from the surf line.

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/07/us...

They were using it for a forthcoming Nic Cage film about the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed & sunk in 1945 and had several of the survivors eaten by sharks.

In real life, a Catalina was sent out to investigate reports from a land-based patrol aircraft of men in the water. The Catalina "landed" and the crew pulled many of the men out of the sea. She couldn't take off again, as they were all over the wings, but she certainly saved lots of them from dehydration, exposure etc before other help could arrive.

[Digga]

Hooli said:

kowalski655 said:

Anywhere to anywhere else by Catalina would be awesome

Lucky damn kids, they'll learn more about life than I ever did at school.

Sure beats driving from the Midlands to the Lake District in a wked-out old Transit mini bus!

[perdu]

Digga said:

Hooli said:

kowalski655 said:

Anywhere to anywhere else by Catalina would be awesome

Lucky damn kids, they'll learn more about life than I ever did at school.

Sure beats driving from the Midlands to the Lake District in a wked-out old Transit mini bus!

Which will still have been better than staying in the Midlands for you/them any kids

And before anyone gets chippy at me I'm happy to be a Brummie

[carinaman]

Beati Dogu said:

No, apparently it broke up as they were trying to salvage it from the surf line.

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/07/us...

Thank you. That's sad. The USS Indianapolis was the ship carrying the bomb mentioned in Jaws I think.

[Bullett]

Nick Grant said:

My son's nursery teaches kids risk. He's five now and knows how to use a knife to whittle, start fires, use a saw and all sorts of stuff They spend nearly all day outside in all weathers. Problem is he starts school this year and that will be a culture shock being sat in a classroom all day.

Many schools and nurseries also run a scheme called "Forest schools" where they take kids out into the woods and teach them these sort of skills. They tend to go out in most weather and every week from the age of 3 or so. They have helped making fires, cutting wood all that sort of stuff. They love it.
It continues into the formal school years as well.