Comments on: Kids are doing them – suffocation roulette, space monkey. But why? http://www.chanlilian.net/2006/03/07/kids-are-doing-them-suffocation-roulette-space-monkey-but-why/ Life, Lies, Sex, Humor, Politics of a Malaysian blogger Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:21:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Space monkey, flatliner and choking game are names parents ought to familiarise with | Mom's Daily http://www.chanlilian.net/2006/03/07/kids-are-doing-them-suffocation-roulette-space-monkey-but-why/comment-page-1/#comment-87286 Space monkey, flatliner and choking game are names parents ought to familiarise with | Mom's Daily Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:18:33 +0000 http://chanlilian.net/?p=1121#comment-87286 [...] Choking game post written by me in 2006. Dylan Blake foundation has a lot of information on this. [...] [...] Choking game post written by me in 2006. Dylan Blake foundation has a lot of information on this. [...]

]]> By: Kate Blake http://www.chanlilian.net/2006/03/07/kids-are-doing-them-suffocation-roulette-space-monkey-but-why/comment-page-1/#comment-16732 Kate Blake Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:56:33 +0000 http://chanlilian.net/?p=1121#comment-16732 I agree completely that spending time with your child and building and maintaining an open honest relationship is essential as they enter into those difficult teen years. Dylan and I were very close, he was the only child or a single parent. It was he and I wherever we went, what ever we did. Dinner table conversations were focused on OUR lives, what he was up to, what I was up to. Comparing thoughts on the ways of the world. Dylan was 11 and I knew those days were going to change as he entered into the teen years and natural pulled away from his mother and began discovering more about himself. My point being that it is not a matter of the relationship of parent child when these kids try the Choknig Game, they think it's safe. They have learned of the game and thinks it's not a big deal, not drugs, not drinking. If I'd known of the Choking Game I would have told Dylan what the consequences were to playing and that kids just like him, many kids, have DIED. Don't bank on your relationship, don't bank on that your kid wouldn't do it (Dylan came home one day after a DARE class and told me I'd better stop drinking my morning coffee because it was a drug. He knew right from wrong). They are children, they think nothing can hurt them. They must be taught that this is dangerous just as they are taught about how to cross the street, stranger danger, drugs, drinking, all of it. Talk to your kids today. Passing out is not worth Passing away. Sincerely, Kate Blake For more info visit here: www.ChokingGameInformation.com I agree completely that spending time with your child and building and maintaining an open honest relationship is essential as they enter into those difficult teen years.
Dylan and I were very close, he was the only child or a single parent. It was he and I wherever we went, what ever we did. Dinner table conversations were focused on OUR lives, what he was up to, what I was up to. Comparing thoughts on the ways of the world. Dylan was 11 and I knew those days were going to change as he entered into the teen years and natural pulled away from his mother and began discovering more about himself.
My point being that it is not a matter of the relationship of parent child when these kids try the Choknig Game, they think it’s safe. They have learned of the game and thinks it’s not a big deal, not drugs, not drinking.
If I’d known of the Choking Game I would have told Dylan what the consequences were to playing and that kids just like him, many kids, have DIED.
Don’t bank on your relationship, don’t bank on that your kid wouldn’t do it (Dylan came home one day after a DARE class and told me I’d better stop drinking my morning coffee because it was a drug. He knew right from wrong). They are children, they think nothing can hurt them. They must be taught that this is dangerous just as they are taught about how to cross the street, stranger danger, drugs, drinking, all of it.
Talk to your kids today.
Passing out is not worth Passing away.
Sincerely,
Kate Blake

For more info visit here: http://www.ChokingGameInformation.com

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