@Yesweknowyouhavekids oh please. You can have all the precautions, as I said before it takes a second for your attention to be turned to something else like another child needing you and it happens. Hence the saying we’re all a second away from tragedy. Why have you come here to judge two parents who have lost a child? Don’t you think that’s a bit dark?
“You can have all the precautions” but they didn’t.. and that’s the point the other poster is getting at.
If they’d been in a car accident and they hadn’t put him in a car seat, or he’d fallen down the stairs because there wasn’t a baby gate would you or anyone else be saying “you can take precautions but accidents still happen?”
Accidents happen every day, that is true, but he wouldn’t have come to the harm he did if they had those measures in place.
Both things can be true at once, I feel desperately sorry for them. They’ve paid the ultimate price but you can’t pretend their actions weren’t negligent. That would be doing a disservice to their son and other children’s future safety by saying otherwise. I said before that the only good thing that can come out of this is that I imagine pool fence sales will have gone through the roof this week and no doubt many will be being installed as we speak. This is going to no doubt save lives.
Obviously that would be dreadful for them to hear, and I’d never in a million years write that on one of their pages during the worst time of their life, but tattle is supposed to be a “private” space where we discuss things and people would have to actively look to find it. And if you look long enough, you’ll always find something you don’t want to read.
I really hope they have the right people round them
