The Dangers of Fire
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A dangerous threat to anyone's safety is fire. But a major concern for worry is toward children who finds themselves drawn to starting fires. Not only could the child be putting someone's else's life in jeopardy but also their own. There are a couple of reasons why a child might start a fire. One reason a child may start fires is because they are curious about fire. Most young children who are preschool and elementary school age have seen adults in their lives using fire. Because the adults in their life are able to handle fire carefully, the threat of fire does not seem as large to a young child. Young children aren't able to understand how dangerous fire can be and may play with fire to imitate the adults they have seen using fire. Even older elementary school children who do understand how dangerous fire can be don't understand how it easily it can get out of their control. They aren't able to realize that fire can spread quickly. Their lack of understanding about the dangers of fire is due to their lack of experience with it and knowledge about it. Children who set fires because of lack of understanding about its danger, can be attributed with not having developed fully cognitively. It can be assumed that these children have not fully gone through the formal operational stage. Mastery of this stage would allow children to process the dangers of fire and the consequences that could result from misuse of it. This stage doesn't fully develop until adolescence.
Another major reason a child might set fires is due to problems that the child is facing. The conflicts that a child faces that lead to starting fires can affect children of all ages. Children who may be feeling stress, anger, depression may resort to starting fires as a way to deal with their problems. A child who is psychologically conflicted about something might start setting fires as a call for help. These children set fires as a means of bringing attention to themselves in the hopes that someone will understand the problems that they are dealing with.
Those who start fire throughout childhood and aren't given help for their problems, may continue setting fires into adulthood. Thus, the child may become an arsonist once they reach adulthood. For this reason, it is important that parents intervene in their child's fire setting behavior. Parents can help children by talking to their child about the dangers of fire and consequences that could come from the law if they damage someone's property. They can also decide to send their child to therapy in order to help their child deal with underlying problems. Another thing that parents can do is to send their children to a local juvenile fire starters program which can help to warn children of the danger of fire. One ways these programs help children is by introducing them to other kids like them who have turned away from their old fire setting behaviors. Some of the programs show a film entitled In A Flash. This film is a short documentary about Gordon Pranger who ended up burning 95% of his body due to setting a fire when he was 14. Gordan Pranger says that he wants to show kids his face in the video because it "is the only way I know to get across the potential destructiveness. I want to scare kids so bad that they won't want to mess with fire."
http://www.fireproofchildren.com/CounselingChildrenWhoPlayWithFire.htm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB105666355451620500.html
http://www.focusas.com/Firesetting.html
http://www.minddisorders.com/Py-Z/Pyromania.html
http://burninstitute.org/fbp/programs/set.html
http://www.ehow.com/about_6587449_children-fire-starters.html
http://engagefamilyminute.com/2010/11/your-five-year-old-needs-to-know-about-%E2%80%9Csex-play%E2%80%9D/
Another major reason a child might set fires is due to problems that the child is facing. The conflicts that a child faces that lead to starting fires can affect children of all ages. Children who may be feeling stress, anger, depression may resort to starting fires as a way to deal with their problems. A child who is psychologically conflicted about something might start setting fires as a call for help. These children set fires as a means of bringing attention to themselves in the hopes that someone will understand the problems that they are dealing with.
Those who start fire throughout childhood and aren't given help for their problems, may continue setting fires into adulthood. Thus, the child may become an arsonist once they reach adulthood. For this reason, it is important that parents intervene in their child's fire setting behavior. Parents can help children by talking to their child about the dangers of fire and consequences that could come from the law if they damage someone's property. They can also decide to send their child to therapy in order to help their child deal with underlying problems. Another thing that parents can do is to send their children to a local juvenile fire starters program which can help to warn children of the danger of fire. One ways these programs help children is by introducing them to other kids like them who have turned away from their old fire setting behaviors. Some of the programs show a film entitled In A Flash. This film is a short documentary about Gordon Pranger who ended up burning 95% of his body due to setting a fire when he was 14. Gordan Pranger says that he wants to show kids his face in the video because it "is the only way I know to get across the potential destructiveness. I want to scare kids so bad that they won't want to mess with fire."
http://www.fireproofchildren.com/CounselingChildrenWhoPlayWithFire.htm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB105666355451620500.html
http://www.focusas.com/Firesetting.html
http://www.minddisorders.com/Py-Z/Pyromania.html
http://burninstitute.org/fbp/programs/set.html
http://www.ehow.com/about_6587449_children-fire-starters.html
http://engagefamilyminute.com/2010/11/your-five-year-old-needs-to-know-about-%E2%80%9Csex-play%E2%80%9D/