Toddler Ruins Monks' Intricate Sand Design - Where were the parents?

Children doing things like this happen, and you can't keep an eye on them 24/7, it'd simply be impossible. I've seen it happen in many occasions as well, the parent would just have to look away for one sec and it's like the kid suddenly gets activated to on and goes on his own way. Like just this week in the subway here this mom was paying attention to her kid for like 10 minutes, then her phone rang as the subway was about to run in a station. She searched in her bag a bit looking for her phone, the kid which did like nothing for 10 minutes now suddenly decided like "this is my chance!" and wanted to wander out into the big wide world. I like grabbed the kids collar and asked the mom whether he was living on his own already as he was so determined to get off here and she called him back towards her. It's definitely not the first time kids suddenly wander off in moments like that, a single moment of being distracted and they're gone. I don't think the monks really find it that big of a deal either. They know it's a kid and usually monks are quite patient, kudos for that since it's rare to see in people today. What is a shame to see though is that the mother didn't bother to notify anyone about this as it happened, thinks like these can happen, but simply walking off like nothing happened is just rude and totally anti-social. I hope that the kid will teach him/herself better manners than the mother has.

It is for these simple reasons that I dont go any where alone with my kids. when I go out and ihave all of my kids with me I make shure I take another adult with me to help me keep an eye on them when I cant. Other wise I wont take any of them with me to avoid things like this happening.

Oh hearing that hurts a little. All that hard work... but I'm sure the monks understand and it's not impossible to fix or start over. But I do think many parents really need to keep a closer eye on their children.

I can't believe the mother just grabbed her kid and took off like that! She should have at least said hey, my kid did this and I am sorry that it happened. Why in the heck she wasn't paying attention to her kid is beyond me. She had to know that display was out there since she had to have walked by it when she went in. I would keep an extra sharp eye on my child in that case, not let him run around! I feel badly for the monks. They don't seem overly upset, of course what can they really do about it, but it doesn't seem fair. They worked so hard and because one woman wasn't paying attention to her kid it was destroyed.

I agree some mothers really need to watch their children a lot closer.My mother was a nurse and she worked the night shift,on her way home one morning from work ,it was around 8am in the morning,she saw a box in the road some people would have either hit it or gone around it,but Mom said she felt she should stop,when she stopped her car and started walking up to the box a baby was pulling up out of the box..The mother ,when they hunted her down finally ,she was in the house asleep and her baby had crawled out the door,found the box in the road and crawled in.My mother was so physic,she said she just felt something and knew she must see.Thank God my mother stopped.Can you imagine what could have happened to that baby had she not.Mothers with children should keep a very close watch on their toddler.

Sometimes parents can be so careless. If I had a child , I would never let it wonder away , while I do my work. i dunno wats happening to people these days. Now it will be so sad to think that the poor monks have to go ahead n do the stuff all over again. People r so irresponsible these days... Another example is The news of the missing little girl Madeline. It really freaks me out to know that people in the west r not that careful with their children..

When I saw this on tv it made me sick. What kind of example is the mother teaching that child? When you do something wrong...run? Especially if you think you can get away with it and not get caught. A simple sorry would have gone a long way to teach that child to begin to think about what he is doing. I have 3 grown children who never acted up in public, took off without me, still do not cuse, and never threw fits in public. We taught them from day one right from wrong, never leave our side and they didn't. We held onto them in public all the time until they were old enough to complain about it. Then we moved onto hanging onto the shopping cart, or the tail of my shirt, or my purse, so I knew where they were at all times. It can be done, it just takes a lot of time and work that parents don't seem to have nowadays.