Parents report own children after Conifox Adventure Park vandalised - your views online

"Parenting is hard, but kudos for teaching your kids a valuable lesson”

The Conifox Adventure Park And Stables at Kirkliston

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Parents report own children after Conifox Adventure Park vandalised two days in a row

Stacey Robertson

Parenting is hard, but kudos for teaching your kids a valuable lesson.

Mark McLeod

Poor owner of the facility. Businesses have enough to cope with at the moment! I hope it’s all covered by insurance.

Dianne Forrest

Well done to the parents. Hard thing to do but hopefully lessons learnt. Thoughts go out to Conifox owners.

Janet S Beaton

Well done those parents hope it teaches their kids valuable life lessons.

Wayne Shaw

I suspect the parents only reported their kids, because the CCTV footage is clear as day, and the local community knew exactly who the kids and parents were.

Margaret Green

Brilliant parents. Doing a great job teaching your children. I wish there were more people like you.

Morag MacLachlan

With such clear images they really had no choice. The owners asked the parents to come speak to them. Kudos to them for being so kind and forgiving in the face of such despicable acts of vandalism.

Calum Heeps

Good on the parents; I hope they are charged for the vandalism!

Nicola Ellis

Well done to those parents. I’d have done the same thing!

Patricia Hutt

Good on the parents. They should make the children or youths repair the damage they have done - hard work hasn't harmed anyone.

Margaret Hazell

Well done those parents, that can’t have been easy.

Mary Smith

Well done, they will grow up better people for your actions. Could not have been easy – I wish there were more parents like you.

Jennifer Gough Brown

They can take part in repairing all the damage they caused. As if people aren't struggling enough financially just now - this is going to cause further debt! This lockdown is no excuse for people's behaviour.

Susan Randall

While I'm glad the parents have reported them, why did the children not know about respecting property in the first place? If you bring them up right then they should know right from wrong.

Jackie Sinclair

Good parenting for a change. Kids get away with so much these days, hopefully they will turn out better men now they have been caught out.

David Simpson

Obviously this was a shocking thing to do and if it was mine the consequences would be severe. But really, reporting your own kid! Sorry but I would never do this; you should have your child’s back no matter what he or she did. If you feel the need to make things right then contact Conifox and put your hands in your pockets and pay for the damage. The only thing that will come out of turning your kids into the police is make them lose trust in you when they should be able to trust their parents over anyone.

Louise Burness Spink

Go to the top of the parenting class! We need more of you in the world.

Kathy Macrae

If children are caught vandalising, no matter how old they are, they should be made to help clean up their mess or do some community service.

AC Coyle

Make them pay for every bit of damage that they've caused, that way they will really learn their lesson.

Billy Connolly

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Steven Tait

Great to see positive approach and people sharing their stories of getting the vaccine. Hopefully, this will be our way out of this, despite the foil-hat brigade.

Ian Simpson

Still a hard core who seem to believe it's only the elderly at risk. It's potentially everybody. It's a dangerous thought easing restrictions and visible improvement in the numbers infected and deaths to have the perception that it's all over. That's bizarre thinking, like these superstitious and fearful groups who only believe what the Witch Doctor tells them. Stay at home, protect the NHS .… get the vaccine.

Philip Cauldwell

Flu and terrorists seems to have disappeared, who’d have thought Covid-19 was the cure for these.

Willie Anderson

Booked for Monday for my first jag – well done SNHS.