FaninMex Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 http://rt.com/news/179192-swedish-father-kids-war/ Think this is kinda cool idea. Kids see the world and they were safe on the Golan heights. Your ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJDDawg Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 As long as the kids were in no real danger, I think it's quite cool they did this. A life lesson the kids will never forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaninMex Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 sorry i don't know how I ended up putting it here. Mods please move this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdatb Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Not a bad idea tbh. Kids should stop sitting in front of TVs and go outside and play or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grapefruits Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 As long as the kids were in no real danger, I think it's quite cool they did this. A life lesson the kids will never forget. Yep. I remember my parents driving me through East Van and skid row when i was a kid. Definitely something i have never forgotten. Learned a lot of life lessons from that experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I wonder, would that be the case for everyone? I mean, would anyone exposed to the horrific nature of war stop playing war-like video games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILL BILL NECRO Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 sorry i don't know how I ended up putting it here. Mods please move this #accidentalanal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common sense Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 It sounds like the kids were in safe hands throughout the experience, being with their dad who has done work in the Israel/West Bank area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offensive Threat Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I wonder, would that be the case for everyone? I mean, would anyone exposed to the horrific nature of war stop playing war-like video games? Probably not but it doesnt seem like he was trying to get them to not play the games, just realize the difference between the glorification of war and violence in games and movies and the reality of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primal Optimist Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I was with the United Nations in the Golan for 6 or 7 months...lots of eye opening stuff there..but would I take my kids to see it? Nope. While I was there, Syrian border guards fired across at Israeli settlers, prompting Israel to shell their own side of the border, but like RIGHT THERE on the edge..to scare the bejebus out of the Syrians..and a wildfire exposed hundreds of thousands of land mines where we used to run our morning fitness routines...and I watched a cow blow up in a field it had lived in for years that apparently had one land mine still in it. Do kids need to witness these things to 'learn a lesson?" Nah. First World Problems: too much vacation money available, not enough vacation ideas available. EDIT: the two most scaring things I saw: Syrian orphanages near the Golan full of blonde haired, blue eyed kids...clearly not allowed to be a part of the Syrian social scene...and most buildings older than 30 years had bullet pock marks along the walls around waist or chest height...where the imagination would take you to realize was created at the moment of extermination of the former occupants during one of many wars in the region over the past 40/50 years. I flew my wife in to visit and within hours we left for Egypt due to the ground shaking explosions of the artillery about two miles away. Kids? Heck no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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