Sue, that is like letting an addict loose in a poppy field. I'm sure Blast will attest to that. *laughs*
Absolutely they should be supervised. But they got it right, so I wouldn't be too hard on them. Something like a soft lecture and no dessert tonight. But I think that you can also use fire starting as a reward for other lessons, like navigation and rope craft.
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