Girl injured trying to fly like Harry Potter (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_634063.html)

Cant understand why it didnt work!!! It worked for Harry after all;) :p ;)

Makes you wonder how a four year old could get a broom and climb onto the worktop without the babysitter seeing it. I know kids that age are hard to watch but the babysitter was probably talking to her boyfriend on the phone:rolleyes:

My mother made me live under the stairs !:D

The resourcefulness of four year olds allows them to find brooms even in houses that do not have them. :)

I have seen a Superman cape that carried the warning that This Cape Does Not Give The Wearer The Ability To Fly. Unfortunately most four year olds wouldn't be able to read it.

Brizzo,

It's scary but a similar warning may appear on broomsticks in the not so distant future.

And why worry about 4 year olds, I'm sure most kids of school leaving age would still struggle to read the warning label :D

Can't we leave things to Darwin's theory and leave these silly warnings out? Or is it "Lawyer's Theory" that rules nowadays?

Consider the effect of McDonalds, Safeway et al. in covering the gap on the hinge line to the doors of their loos. An entire genration of small children will learn that doors cannot harm them, until they come across a door in a private house :eek: . Indeed one might argue that these gaps seals INCREASE the chance of a child injuring themselves on the first unprotected door them come across, due to the curiosity involved in seeing hinges for the first time!

Every owner of a 'public' door must now spend money to equip the door with a gap seal, rather than relying on the parents to instruct their children not to stick their fingers into the gap. Not to do so would be 'negligent' and invite litigation in the event of an injury.

Thus, I subscribe to Darwin's theory.

I have two children and understood when I became a parent that part of the job involved teaching them that hot things can hurt, sharp things can hurt, dogs can bite etc.