Fearless or foolish?

Is it just me or does everyone sometimes wonder how we raise our boys?

I think most parents are terrified by a story on the front page of the sunshine coast daily today.

An 18 year old Buderim apprentice, Tyson Leader is dead.

On Friday his mum dropped him off at his mates house, for a weekend trip to the Gold Coast.

The last thing shw said to him was, ‘Be safe.’ and if you believe what you read, it wasn’t an empty message. Tyson has always been a bit of a dare devil.

But, despite his Mum's warning, just hours after he kissed her good bye and got out of the passenger seat of the car….Tyson was dead.

After visiting a couple of clubs, no doubt with a drink or three under his belt, Tyson climbed onto the railing of the apartment balcony.

Like a monkey, he crouched down, and held on with two hands, hanging back and testing his weight.

Then, he upped the ante, taking one hand off the railing, grinning at his mate not three feet away. And in an instant he was gone, falling 24 stories to his death.

His mum Jan is quoted in the paper this morning, she says, ‘we had to go to the morgue to see him and I just looked at him and said, ‘mate, what part of be safe did you not get?”.