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It's a parent's nightmare: two young boys outdoors all day without sunscreen while at day care.

Now, they are recovering from severe sunburns at a burn center in Galveston.

Doctors say the sunburns are so bad they could've been life threatening had these kids not been airlifted to Shriner's Hospital in Galveston.

And now, their mother is sharing cell phone video and images of her children in agonizing pain as a warning to other parents.

"You gotta lay down, though, OK. I can't, I can't, I can't. Yes you can, you just take a deep breath and lay down OK?" Shaunna Broadway tells her son in the video.

She says the day care she trusted in their home state of Oklahoma put her sons in danger by taking them to a local waterpark and letting them play outside almost all day with no sunscreen.

"There's no excuse for this," Broadway said in a phone interview.

When the burns began to blister, the kids were airlifted to Galveston. Much of the images of their injuries are far too graphic to show especially for 7-year-old Conner, who is red headed and more fair skinned than his younger brother.

In one image, Connor's back looks red raw and covered in white sores with a large abscess on his back.

The mom says day care workers claimed they ran out of sunscreen and told the kids to put their shirts back on, but the boys didn't want to.

"Whether it was intentional or not, they were supposed to take care of them and they did not and that's the bottom line," Broadway said.

The children will remain at Shriner's until they are stable enough to go home to Oklahoma and that may take some time.

"It's the well-being of my kids and seeing them in pain, I just want them back to normal, you know?" said their single mom from her sons' bedsides.

Doctors suggest always applying sunscreen on your child at the beginning of each day and to look for sunscreens with SPF 15 or higher.

Doctors also recommend that children, especially toddlers to pre-school age, stay out of the sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the heat of the summer.

The mother of these boys has filed a report with the local police department and is in the process of finding an attorney.

She urges parents to really do their research when finding a day care.

The day care in question, Happiness is a Learning Center, shut down permanently after the state launched an investigation, according to KOTV.

Authorities in Oklahoma have cited the daycare for infractions 19 times in the last year, mainly for staffing issues – not neglect or abuse.

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We live in a damned if you do damned if you don't society. Most places wont provide sunscreen fearing that of the kids have a negative response they will be sued. Parents need to supply a full tube and likely have to sign some type of waiver approving the staff to apply the sunscreen to their child. It's a crazy world.

But that wasn't the situation here. If the daycare told parents that they did not provide sunscreen, that's one thing. But the daycare obviously provided some because they ran out, meaning they must have had some in the first place. It might have been reasonable to let the boys continue if they were only going to be out for a couple hours, but for the whole day? They either had to leave or someone had to go buy more sunscreen. End of story. There is no good reason why anyone should be hospitalised for sunburns.

The post said that they ran out. That means they had enough for some and at some point they no longer had enough. It is possible that the two boys were the only ones who did not get sunscreen. And we know that they must have at least offered to provide sunscreen or they would not have ran out because they would not have had sunscreen in the first place, which means they could not have run out.

I'll break it down. Let's start with whether or not we know the daycare's sunscreen policy.

1. The original post says the daycare ran out of sunscreen.
2. To run out of something, one must first have some of it.
3. Because the daycare ran out of sunscreen, we know that the daycare had sunscreen at some point.
4. If the daycare had sunscreen, it means they usually provide sunscreen.
5. If the daycare usually provides sunscreen, it means that parents are not expected to bring the sunscreen.
6. If parents are not expected to bring the sunscreen, and the daycare has sunscreen, then it follows logically that the daycare's policy is to provide sunscreen.

Now let's look at whether or not a situation in which only the two boys did not get sunscreen is reasonable.

1. We know that the daycare at least offers to provide sunscreen.
2. We know that sunscreen is a finite product.
3. Being a finite product, we know that sunscreen can run out, but we cannot always predict when.
4. Given that finite products run out whenever they are used to capacity, how many people do or do not get sunscreen has no relation to whether or not the situation makes sense.
5. If there are, let's say, twenty kids (because we do not know the whole number), and eighteen get sunscreen before the bottle runs out, then eighteen kids are protected and two have no sunscreen.
6. The two without sunscreen can be any two kids, provided there is no set order for who gets sunscreen (let's assume there isn't, because that would be abnormal).
7. It is entirely possible that every kid, except for the two boys, got sunscreen.

And from all of this we can assume that we have a fairly accurate picture of what was going on. I'm not sure how, given what we know and what we can figure out based on logic, the incident was at all excusable.