Reports coming out today of a 14 year old girl who is in a critical condition in the Royal Children's Hospital after falling off the back of a tram in Melbourne's east this morning.
And when i say this morning, i mean just in the morning. 12.30am.
Apparently the girl was riding on the back bumper of the tram on Burwood Highway, Burwood East with her friend, also a teenager.
Distressing as this surely is for the family and friends of the girl, id like to ask the following: How the hell are two teenage girls, one of them only 14, allowed to be out at 12.30am on a Friday night / Saturday Morning?
Do their parents have any idea of what they are doing with their lives?
I know when i was 14, if i was out this late at night by myself or with a friend, i would have got a swift kick up the rear and been grounded for a month. And that's not so long ago.
And before you think I'm singling these two girls out for special treatment, please go out on a Friday or Saturday night and see for yourselves how many young kids are out on the town.
Every train and tram is filled with groups of 13 and 14 year olds out late on the weekend. And you see them out on the streets, some of them wearing next to nothing.
Not all of them are drinking or up to no good, but they are loud, and for the most part, you would have to say that a 13 or 14 year old probably shouldn't be out after midnight without an adult.
What it means is that parents don't know, and probably don't care what their kids do with their lives. So busy are they pursuing their aspirational dream, they have forgotten what it is like to raise children.
Tragic as this accident is, let it be a lesson to parents to wake up to themselves and keep an eye on their kids.
But, as they say, you need to register to have a dog but anyone is allowed to have children.
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I am the other girl who was on the back of the tram with my friend.
Firstly, my mum, a single mum is not the person to blame for me being out that late at night. At the time I was a missing person as I had not been home in days and my mum was very worried about me which is the reason why she called the police.
Me and my friend were on the way to her house with two other friends aswell, and she did not climb on the back of the tram as a stunt which most people think, but to attempt suicide. I was not going to watch one of my best friends die so I tried all I could to hold her back and kept telling her not to but as the tram started moving, the force of the tram was too fast and my friend let go and slipped out of my arm.
Please do not blame parents for these kinds of things as sometimes us kids are too uncontrollable. They can't exactly watch you 24/7, esspecially when the parent is at work, the child could just go out and not come home for days.
What happened to my friend was probably the most scariest thing I've ever experienced but I just hope my friend will be okay.
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