I was hoping to find some kind of video on YouTube where someone who 'learned his lesson the hard way' would warn children. Yes, I am considering a tour of a burn ward.
I’d say your son needs to have a serious discussion and explain how a fire can get out of control and take out houses and kill people.
You can also hide all the lighters and matches as should be done with young children in the house anyway.
I played with matches at that age and accidentally set the woods on fire behind our house - or accidentally let it get out of control at least.
Between my mother cussing me out for the first time ever, the fire dept dragging hoses through our yard, my worries about burning people’s houses down before they got their and worrying what my dad was going to do to me, I never did it again.
I don’t remember if any of the firemen talked to me. I’m sure I got some hard looks from them. Dad just lectured me for an hour.
I think the big one was the way my mom acted. I came in, walked around for a few seconds and then looked out the back window and said “Fire”. She said “what’d you do?” I said, “Nothing”, she said “Bullshit” and went right for my pockets and found matches. Then she called 911. First time I’d ever heard her cuss and I felt like a pos they way I got caught and they way she looked at me.
That and I had to look at ugly woods for a long time and that was my hangout.
I’m sure my mom made sure there were no matches to be found in the house for quite a while afterwards too.