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Originally Posted by Julian
But no, as ever with the blame culture we have, it's easier to blame anybody else than admit zero parenting skills.  |
While they should *both* be aware of the potential problems of even controlled use of sunbeds, and the daughter should have been aware that she shouldn't go over the limit (even without seeing signs and never having been on a sunbed, I knew that you shouldn't go over the limit), and the daughter should have been aware that it takes a while to tan, it's a little strong to say that the mother is a bad parent or has zero parenting skills. As far as we know, the mother made ONE mistake. She may not have even done that. She may have been unaware that her daughter was using sunbeds.
Assuming you have kids, have
you ever told them how to use Sunbeds correctly? If you haven't, does that make
you a bad parent? It's not something I can recall my mum telling me, and she certainly wasn't a bad parent.
I still don't like the idea of unmanned salons though, and find it staggering that we have a government that is happy to allow people to expose themselves to fairly high levels of radiation using devices that have been known to cause cancer in unsupervised environments, but is happy to ban things that are a lot safer.
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Originally Posted by Nidge
One word for her, PRAT. She said, "when she came off she didn't think she was tanned enough", you can't tell the difference until a few days later. I used sunbeds once a week for 10 minutes, it clears my skin up and gives me a healthy glow, there's nothing wrong with them if they are used right. She's after some compensation which she's not going to get because she shouldn't have been in threre in the first place.
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She may get it if the health and safety executive find that there were no clearly visible signs in the shop stating that before she used a sunbed. You can bet your bottom dollar there are signs there now.