It can make one wonder, who is watching the children today, when you hear stories such as this one out of the Netherlands. “Children played with a high-explosive World War Two shell at a playground in the Dutch town Barneveld for months before authorities were warned and removed it, Dutch police said Sunday. The police called in a unit specialized in clearing explosives, which detonated the shell in a safe area on Saturday” (Reuters)
The Dutch are hopefully counting their blessings on this one, as the tragic results of a explosion on a playground killing children, thanks to pure lack of attention of an entire community could have been detrimental. One has to question, where were all the adults minding the children who frequent the playground. Did no one question that the new toy was? It does leave you to wonder if we are really paying attention to our children.
