Parents of little ones, a reminder

That blog post is so full of raw pain and anguish, it was hard to read. That beautiful girl. I hope her mom finds peace.

Oh my goodness. All of it is just heartbreaking. And she was a twin. My heart hurts reading it.

Holy shit. It never even occurred to me to bolt a small dresser like that to the wall. DS' dresser is about that size. I will get DH to secure it to the wall ASAP. This is so heartbreaking and I don't think I could live if that happened to DS. Thanks for posting this.

omg

No, it's not. The one pictured was a small three drawer changing table with a cabinet on the side.

Ugh. Thanks for posting this. That is not a big dresser! I would never have thought to secure something that low.

If I read it correctly, the little girl pulled the drawers out and it was enough to make the whole thing tip over

Jesus. Maya always pulls the drawers out of her dresser to climb it

DD1 almost pulled her dresser over on herself a few months ago -- luckily I had a bookshelf positioned so that if it fell, the bookshelf was close enough that it would fall on that first and be propped up; all she got was a conked noggin and a fright.

It scared the hell out of me. I called DH in tears, and he came home and strapped that thing to the wall so securely that we'll probably never be able to move it without leaving huge holes in the drywall.

We also just mounted our TV on the wall, well out of kid-reach, so now I won't worry about that.

I couldn't make it all the way through that blog entry. OMG. That poor baby and her poor family.

This is what my DD1 did. Her dresser is a three drawers-by-three-drawers one, long but not particularly tall, and she was opening/closing drawers while I was in the next room. She opened too many at once and with the weight of the drawers + clothes in them, the dresser tipped forward.

Ugh, I just finished crying from reading that earlier from FB. That poor family and little girl. The mother's pain in her post... My heart just breaks for her. So unbelievably sad.

You can secure a tv to furniture like this, if it's on a stand of some sort: www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=536352&cm_ven=RKG_GoogleBase&cm_cat=OSA_Non-Brand&cm_pla=GoogleBase&cm_ite=GoogleBase&orderType=2&utm_source=RKG_GoogleProducts&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=product&utm_term=GoogleBase

(It's what we have for our flatscreen.)

I'm just...speechless. I can't imagine.

None of our stuff is currently bolted. We'll be making a trip to home depot tomorrow.

You can buy bars that secure flat-panel TVs that aren't already mounted to wall. We have one -- I think we got it at BRU.