firecracker talk

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I had this firecracker talk with my kids a day before new year. Here in the Philippines it has been a bit traditional to buy our own firecracker and use it on midnight of New Year... But these past few years so many are injured because of these firecrackers and mostly are children..and after new year, they have no fingers left on their hands..some are really badly injured. So i decided to have a talk to with the kids. We actually did not buy any firecrackers, except for one "fountain" and a sparkler the kids could use. But i still had that talk with the kids, i told them never to pick up any firecrackers that was lit - well lit or unlit, never pick it up. I really stressed that out since there are kids around the neighborhood playing with firecrackers ( i want to whack the kid's parents for allowing their kids to play such) call me paranoid but that talk took me more than 30 minutes lol telling them over and over again not to eat without washing their hands after handling firecrackers since it could poison them... and all my daughter said was..mama, its a bit useless because you are not even allowing us to handle a sparkler for more than 5 minutes lol!