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Originally Posted by T@T
Your explanation on parenting sounds like you read a book on the subject...not lived it! 
BTW, I have 2 great kids and now I'm a grandparent. |
I was thinking the same thing. As a guy who's a single dad of 2 every second week, stuff happens. You try your best ,but I can think of 2 or 3 occasions over the years where I wasnt paying close enough attention to something that almost had tragic results, but thankfully turned out fine.
As for the mother jumping in after, my mother tells a story of when I was 1, she let me crawl on a dock at a lake (thanks mom!) and I fell off the side. She says she completely froze and someone else saw and jumped in after me. I also was at a pool once when a 4 year old boy got in over his head, and the mom just stayed at the edge screaming, so my 6 year old boy calmly went and pulled him out thinking it was no big deal. Everyone reacts differently I guess.
I still can't quite figure out the physics of the story. How does a woman who is likely not much more than five feet get their kid perched up on a five foot fence,let alone standing up. Doesn't sound right.