This is a time when parents have to make sure to watch their children like hawks to make sure that they don't get their fingers or other parts burnt. Children are drawn to fire like moths to a flame. Fire is a beautiful thing after all, fascinating even to adults. It doesn t need a festival like Diwali to bring out this urge. Most children have played with matches by the time they hit puberty.
Children find it difficult to take warnings against playing with fire seriously.
After all, fire has so many positive associations in our daily lives. The first spark Children strike that first match purely out of curiosity to see whether they too can create this fascinating thing called a fire. While the striking of a match maybe an innocuous act, there is a definite danger when it is done by a child, ignorant of its dangerous possibilities. The mind of a child under the age of six has not developed sufficiently to make the connection between striking a match and starting a fire. Thus, he is likely to experiment indoors.