Thursday 28 May 2020

As Adults We Tend To Know Stuff,

unfortunately we sometimes forget to past said 'stuff' on to our kids, 



for instance putting on a Superman suit does not mean we can fly, photograph Pixabay, and in that line of thinking three brothers who watched one of the Spiderman movies, from Potosi, Bolívar, aged 8, 10 and 12, recently wound up in the hospital after being bitten by a black widow spider, by actually coerced the spider into biting them by putting it on their skin and prodding it with a stick, according to Bolivian newspaper El Deber, the three brothers were huge fans of Spider-Man, and earlier this month, as they were out grazing the family goats on the outskirts of Chayanta, a town in Bolivia’s Potosi region, they noticed a black widow. Instead of staying as far away as possible from the dangerous arachnid, the three brothers recalled how Peter Parker became Spider-Man and decided to try it out for themselves, the older brother went first, making the spider bite him by prodding it with a stick, and then he helped the middle and youngest brother get their own shots at becoming real-life Spider-Men. It took about 10 minutes for the symptoms to show, and when the boy’s parents returned from gathering wood and found them crying in pain, they took them to the local health center, unfortunately, the medicine received by the brothers at the Chayanta health center didn’t help much so they were transferred to a hospital in the small town of Llallagua, where their condition continued to worsen. The next day, they were taken to the Children’s Hospital in La Paz, with muscular pain, sweating, fever and tremors. It was only after a serum against black widow spiders was applied that the kids started feeling better. They were discharged on May 20th. “I am only sharing this story because it should act as a warning for parents to be careful. To children everything can seem real. Films can be real, dreams can be real and they are the illusions of our life,” said Virgilio Prieto , head of Epidemiology at the Bolivian Ministry of Health, that is the point, kids do not know 'stuff' that we take as adults for granted, and this is not an isolated case,

photograph AsiaWire, a brother and sister aged 11 and 9, reportedly became addicted to popular video games Mini World and Game of Peace during the lockdown caused by the spread of the SarsCov-2 virus. Their parents had bought them a smartphone, and they would spend up to eight hours a day playing the two mobile games at the family home in Handan, China. On March 22, the two children jumped off of the family’s 50-foot-tall residential building to see if they would come back to life, just like their video game avatars. The pair were critically injured, breaking numerous bones, and required several surgical procedures, “[My sister] said: ‘Big brother, let’s see whether we’ll come back to life like in the game.’ Then she and I tried [jumping off the building],” the 11-year-old revealed to reporters. “She was willing at first, then she was afraid. I told her to close her eyes, then I took her hand and went first. I don’t remember what happened after that.” just remember we know stuff kids do not, so remember to pass that knowledge on, I hope all concerned make a speedy and healthy recovery.


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