If you would like to read more check out Rus blogs on her blog page!! Heres the link allaboutems/blogs.html What happened to tough love? It seems these days that we live in a society that believes that nothing bad could ever happen to them. Children are being raised with no regard to rules. People live off of poor judgment because consequences, and punishment are no longer feared. People live their lives thinking that bad things only happen to other people, and that nothing will come of their poor decisions. We in EMS disagree. Day after day, month after month, year after year, we get called to aid of people who chose to act with reckless disregard. Some live to see another day, other lose life or limb over a moment of stupidity. My biggest pet peeve is drunk driving. How many people have to be critically injured or killed before people act with half of a brain? I know, common sense isn’t so common anymore. Every drunken car wreck I respond to makes me less and less sympathetic. Every day we hear of people killed or critically injured due to the impairment of a driver who recklessly drinks to the point of no return. This impaired Einstein then decides jumping behind the wheel of his vehicle for a midnight stroll is his best option. He never once thinks about why such a decision is a wrong one. Not once does he think about the fact that the car he is about to drive head on into is carrying a family of 5, returning from vacation at Disney world. We had a call 3 weeks ago where two kids, a 19 year old and a 17 year old decided drinking beer while driving was a good idea. At 90mph, they lost control of their vehicle, slammed into a parked car, then slammed into a large stone wall, which then sent their vehicle into the air, flipping until it laid at rest on its side. The 19 year old was killed instantly, the 17 year old followed in his footsteps just a few moments later. Two families lost their children that night, and why? Because not once did these kids fear the consequences of drinking and driving. Children grow up with parents who are too afraid to show their kids what reality looks like. They are too afraid to upset them, and fear that they will be the cause of unwanted emotional distress, of which will land their precious little wall flower in therapy for the rest of their lives. What happened to tough love? Show them the images of wrecks. Make them watch news report after news report about drunk drivers killing someone. Show them the cars, show them the consequences. Show them the faces of the victims before their fate was sealed. Without a dose of reality, they will never believe that bad things can in fact happen. Because these two kids didn’t fear the repercussions of driving while drunk, they lost their lives. I think it is time to stand up and say enough is enough! RU-Responders Unite
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:36:25 +0000
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