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Originally Posted by EvoFire  We were at the aquarium today and sitting in the outdoors area by the stellar bay sea lions letting the kids eat their snack.
A few tables over a kid knocks over a cup of hot something and cries. The adults seem a bit unfussed as one adult went to fetch some water but the kid was crying. I decided to help out and went to the concession to ask for ice.
When I approached the table the kid is clearly in distress, the surface skin on the burn had already peeled off and what looked like a 1st degree or even 2nd degree burn and the adults were still quite unbothered.
I suggested that they go see a doctor or ER as it seemed rather serious for a 5 year old kid with an affected area of probably around 7 - 8 sq inches. The first aid team at the aquarium eventually showed up and they all left 5-10mins later.
My wife commented they were so calm cause she was getting anxiety from seeing them. I wasn't sure if they were being calm and handling the situation, or they were calm because they didn't understand the gravity of the situation. Ultimately the kid would probably make a full recovery but would be at least 2 weeks before he's better and there's the risk of infection when you lose. Am I over reacting or it is a serious enough injury? | Might be the kid is a cryer and the adults are de-sensitized or exhausted.
Also, people do tend to be oblivious. My wife has poured boiling hot water into our kid's water bottle a couple of times, to mix with cold water from the fridge.
Our toddler screams and she thinks he's just complaining and he should just drink his water.
I pour it on my wrist and it's scorching hot.
I'm like "you can't mix 100C water 50/50 with cold water, it doesn't work like that. Even if that was ice-cold water, the result is still 50C!!"
Her eyes glaze over.
It's happened 3 times. It's still happening. My wife won't listen.
She gets mad if I just give our kid cold water straight from the fridge. "No it's too cold!!!! He'll cough!!"
...then why are you pouring him cold glasses of milk in his cup? That's from the fridge too. It's literally the same temperature.
Her eyes glaze over.
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09-08-2025, 08:15 AM
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#1677 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by RabidRat Might be the kid is a cryer and the adults are de-sensitized or exhausted.
Also, people do tend to be oblivious. My wife has poured boiling hot water into our kid's water bottle a couple of times, to mix with cold water from the fridge.
Our toddler screams and she thinks he's just complaining and he should just drink his water.
I pour it on my wrist and it's scorching hot.
I'm like "you can't mix 100C water 50/50 with cold water, it doesn't work like that. Even if that was ice-cold water, the result is still 50C!!"
Her eyes glaze over.
It's happened 3 times. It's still happening. My wife won't listen.
She gets mad if I just give our kid cold water straight from the fridge. "No it's too cold!!!! He'll cough!!"
...then why are you pouring him cold glasses of milk in his cup? That's from the fridge too. It's literally the same temperature.
Her eyes glaze over. | The skin have all peeled. If it was just red I'd have agreed with you. Maybe West can chime in since he's in the kitchen and probably way more familiar with hot liquid burns.
Maybe I'm over reacting, but I feel like they would have kept going if they can get the kid calmed down enough.
First the bubbles thing two days ago, now the hot water burn, I sound like an over protective maniac.
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09-08-2025, 09:10 AM
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Oh here's another "people" thing: something is only happening if you acknowledge that it's happening. Ignore your child's burn, and the burn doesn't exist. Skin peeling? Oops, no, look away.
Seems like they're sick? Noooooo ignore, ignore. If you think about it, it might become true.
Pulling out into oncoming traffic? Naaaah, look the other way.
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09-08-2025, 10:07 AM
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I used to have eczema -- it is probably in remission for now, but I know how itchy and uncomfortable it gets when it flares up, or even just when your skin is very dry. So when my kid was much younger back at the toddler stage, I was extremely attentive to his skin condition as well since he had some amount of eczema as well. If the moisturization is well controlled, flare ups are far less likely to happen.
Imagine the horror I saw when some of my friends' (toddler aged) children and my niece / nephew were showing signs of really dry skin / eczema flare ups. In one of my friend's case, she just didn't think it was that big of a deal. That time, the condition of the dry skin irked me so much that I waved the toddler over and put some CeraVe on her face (just as I would have done for my own kid). With my niece / nephew, my SIL seems to think they will just deal with it by applying hydrocortisone when the flare up gets bad. So I just  in my head and shut up.
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Originally Posted by EvoFire We were at the aquarium today and sitting in the outdoors area by the stellar bay sea lions letting the kids eat their snack.
A few tables over a kid knocks over a cup of hot something and cries. The adults seem a bit unfussed as one adult went to fetch some water but the kid was crying. I decided to help out and went to the concession to ask for ice.
When I approached the table the kid is clearly in distress, the surface skin on the burn had already peeled off and what looked like a 1st degree or even 2nd degree burn and the adults were still quite unbothered.
I suggested that they go see a doctor or ER as it seemed rather serious for a 5 year old kid with an affected area of probably around 7 - 8 sq inches. The first aid team at the aquarium eventually showed up and they all left 5-10mins later.
My wife commented they were so calm cause she was getting anxiety from seeing them. I wasn't sure if they were being calm and handling the situation, or they were calm because they didn't understand the gravity of the situation. Ultimately the kid would probably make a full recovery but would be at least 2 weeks before he's better and there's the risk of infection when you lose. Am I over reacting or it is a serious enough injury? | You're a good human for doing that. That said, ultimately, you can't control what other parents choose to do, and the risk of getting involved is people can get offended and take it personally that you are not minding your own business, then some nutjob crazyness might surface and suddenly all hell breaks loose. No good deed goes unpunished (unfortunately). Just by showing concern and bringing some ice is the best thing you can do and shows you're a good guy.
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