You get a phone call from the friend’s mother saying your child fell and hurt his arm. Telling you it looks swollen and that she applied an ice pack, then offer to take YOUR child to urgent care with the intent that you meet them there? And all the while, doesn’t mention anything about the fact that your child was injured while operating a motorized scooter and crashed into a curb causing him to fall on his wrist? You take the child to the E.R. and he is diagnosed with TWO fractures in his right forearm arm. Then the child tells the doctor the true story about what happened, and you sit there, stunned, because you were under the impression that your child simply had an “accident” while playing, and that these things happen, because “kids will be kids”?

I don’t care what you or anyone says. The above example is pure negligence on the part of the friend’s parent. I understand that people sue for all types of reasons, but don’t lump EVERYONE into the same category. Every parent in the world will make a mistake in judgement. No one is perfect. But if it was YOUR child in this situation, and they were injured (I don’t mean a scraped knee or bump on the head) because the “adult” failed to properly ensure that YOUR child would safe under their watch, you would be right on the band wagon. Ha, so called “professor”.