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Originally Posted by V
How many kids do you have?
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I had an incident this past weekend at a party that involved me sprinting 20 yards, while simultaneously breastfeeding my baby, to stop my 2.5 year old from walking onto the dock at the lake house we were at. He loves the water and I'm sure was about 10-20 seconds away from leaping in. My husband was occupied with helping our older child with dinner and didn't see the younger one wander off to explore the dock. It was also a party so there were many distractions.
Kids are fast. Mistakes and accidents can happen. Especially so when parents are looking after multiple children and/or distracted by... I don't know, having a lovely evening at movie night on the beach at Disneyworld.
Just unbelievably tragic for that family. I have no blame or shame for them at all. When you have little kids you know that even with hyper-diligence (I'm a total helicopter), things can go wrong in a blink and were it not for chance, a tragedy could have been you and your family. I told my story because thankfully I wasn't distracted by talking to someone at the party or changing the baby's diaper somewhere - I saw my son go wandering off while my husband turned his back for 30 seconds.
Innocent wading on a man-made beach at a world class resort with Dad within arms reach... pretty sure an alligator attack would not be front of mind for most people. It's easy to be a monday morning quarterback, imo.
Just awful all around.
