[Good King Glennceslas]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

"I don't get how experience increases knowledge" is what you've just said. Think about it for a second or two and (hopefully) it doesn't need explained?

"I just don't get how driving racing cars for 15 years gives someone an advantage in driving ability over someone who hasn't? My gradad lends me his Fiat 500 every weekend, why can't I compete?"

I'm not saying that everyone with kids is an expert, or that everyone gets it right, not by a long shot. I am however saying that someone who is childless has no idea what goes into child safeguarding every day. Pretending that you do is just sad, and LARPing as something that you're not. It's not a life experience that you have - so you know less about it! That's life! It's no "offensive".

So by your own logic I wouldn’t be able to babysit my nieces then because as I’m not their parent I wouldn’t know how to safeguard them from harm?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

So by your own logic I wouldn’t be able to babysit my nieces then because as I’m not their parent I wouldn’t know how to safeguard them from harm?

"Child safeguarding" isn't about keeping their hands away from the oven when it's hot or making sure they don't drink the calpol. If you were to babysit your nieces and your family came home to find you'd popped on an old DVD of "Puppetry of the Penis" for them to watch with their milk & cookies I imagine there'd be some tense words?