Breakfast Bonus: Nurse says no!

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A nurse working in the ED has released a list of the 5 things they would never let their kids do - and it's made us even more cautious

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam I.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're
talking about a nurse who works in the ED and
she has seen some things, as you'd imagine, but as
a result of that, there are some things she will
never let her kids do.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is really really interesting. So she has seen everything
as an ED nurse. She sees all the accidents, all
the dramas within a family, and this list here. It
won't surprise you in some ways, but it might just
make you a little extra careful in others. And it's
worth it if you ask me. So. Number one, she
would never let her kids sit on a ride on Moa,

(00:36):
even if it seems like fun, because she's seen tear
wax since where kids have lost their limbs. And I
tell you, what, do you remember New Zealand basketballer Paul Hennady,
same thing happened and his little boy lost his foot.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
That's right, Sophie Pasco is the same thing.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes, Now I feel like hers wasn't riding with her dad.
I think he accidentally ran around. Yeah, so when you're
mowing the lawns, just be uber uber careful.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
So I see clowns in our neighborhood mowing lawns and jendles.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
What are you doing.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
You're walking backwards to the lawnmower wearing a jendle. That's
just asking for trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
It is another one here. Don't let kids play with fireworks,
not even the small ones. Now we've all done that,
given them a sparklay, haven't we. And I actually learned
the hard way. One of my kids got a little
burned from a sparkler, and I after that thought, when.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
You think to our childhood what we used to do
with those and shoot them at each other. My mum
actually got really severe burnt right on her nipple.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
At a fireworks party.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
It was a four drive party. I remember to go
down a ship.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, no, it's just it didn't go down a shirt.
It's stuck to her nipple from the outside and melted through.
It was a buzzy beat, you know, there's certain spin. Yeah,
we had to go to the emergency department that night.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Imagine if that was her face. And this is a
really interesting one, and I have been I have been
confronted with this. Now. All three of my kids are
confidence women's right, so much so that they'll do god swimming.
But even so, I feel nervous about letting them go
to a swimming party. And this is what she has said,
Never allow kids, especially those not confident water, to go

(02:10):
to a swim party alone. The pdxal operating room nurse
knows the rest. More people in and around the pool
increases the chance of accidents and drowning. And I find
from about the age of eight, people start to have
pool parties, right, and often you might have the husband
and wife there. Well, can they actually watch ten children?
Tell you what they can't?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's it? And bring we we'rel like enough, we saved up.
We put a pool in our house, right, and so
now as like a party place. So a lot of
the neighborhoods and a lot of the parents fall, oh,
we'll drop the kids around. I'm like, no, no, no, And
I say to the kids as well, if you want
to swim, you're more than welcome to. Just make sure
Mam and Dan come around. So I'm sitting there and
there's no way I let other people's kids swimming out
of pool without them there. It's just too much of

(02:49):
a risk. Kids are really confident, but I'm not in charge.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Of everyone's kids, but even confident kids. Right, So I've
never let the story has never left me, and we've
got a pull too, and I always remember it. So
Juliet's eleven, confident in as swimmer. Her friends come around
and swim all the time, and they're all good swimmers,
but you still never leave them unattended. Because there was
a mum that had a ten year old son, super confident.

(03:14):
He bashed his head on the side of the pool
trying to do a bomb and she wasn't watching, so
he drowned because he was unconscious, you know.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like the simplest thing.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, okay, another one here, and I feel like this
is one on one. But she wouldn't be saying it
if people weren't coming in with these injuries. People that
aren't wearing the seat belt, kids not wearing seat belts
or harnesses. It's obviously happening. This one here, number five
spoke to me, possibly more than any of the others
she has said here sleepovers are off limits unless you

(03:45):
know every single person in the house. Well, she's witnessed
enough concerning situations to make her question if sleepovers are
ever a good idea for children. With the world ah,
and that's a nurse, so that's not a one off.
She said, multiple incidents. Where isn't that just terrified break?
And how often do you go, oh no, I trust

(04:06):
the mum, But do you trust the dad? Do you
trust the older brother? Do you trust the neighbor next
door that's popping in? Do you trust the people that are.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Such a sad set of affairs. We actually can't just
leave our kids out of our sight.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's really sad. So yeah, they were her top five things.
And if that makes you just sort of think twice,
it certainly has me. And I feel like I was
bordering on a bit cautious anyway. It's just good to
have it in your mind for future.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Think you that.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
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