@ trigger warning: girl dies on vacation to Disneyland

[mmmomof2]

That railing looks totally climb-able for my gymnast monkey 3 year old. So scary. That poor family.

[jeaniebueller]

That is horrifying. That poor family.

[hopecounts]

I feel so bad for them.
This was a horrific accident and Based on the pic I don't really think anyone is at fault but certainly not the Mom.
I'm a SAHM and have showered alone with DD I do what I can to make sure she is safe but she could surprise me.
Like she did a couple months ago when she woke us up after climbing over the gate on her room.
Fortunately she just came to find us so NBD but that's not a given.

[MrsAxilla]

You know what's haunting me the most? Someone give me the spoiler tag first.

[sjh722]

Jul 21, 2015 17:16:56 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

tragic accident. I'm not going to judge the mom, but this seems like one of those situations where just the perfect storm or events came together tragically.

I only have a very limited mobility 11 month old, but I know my friends with older kids all 1) know their kids can & often do open doors 2) use top door locks. I assume this hotel, like most hotels, had a extra security latch at the top that lets you open the door to see who is knocking?

I'm not a mom to be overly paranoid & go to extreme to prevent every possible dangerous situation, but it seems like one of those cases where it may have prevented a tragedy

This is heartbreaking. That poor mom.

My 2.5 year old is tall and has been able to push chairs/furniture around for months to get closer to what she wants. I have caught her opening our French-door fridge and getting herself snacks from the top shelf, on the kitchen counters eating stuff I thought was stashed up high - right after DD2 was born, I had to call poison control because she got into a bottle of tums which were out of her reach (I thought) while I was feeding the baby. She absolutely could figure out how to push a chair over to the door to get the top latch undone if she'd seen us unlatch it. I feel like we should travel with door knob covers.

[madisen]

Jul 21, 2015 15:50:16 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

The amount of judging people do in tragic circumstances like this is appalling. I don't know if it's to make themselves feel better by pretending they are immune from tragedy ("This could never happen to me because I would never X,Y, or Z"), or what. It happens every time an accident occurs - people have to place blame and can't seem to accept that terrible things happen sometimes, without anyone doing anything wrong.

Warning: further tragic anecdote:

There was a tragic death in my family a few years back - baby (just over 1 year old) was napping; mom was on her computer in the next room. He woke up, somehow slid open a glass door to the backyard (or maybe the dog pushed it open? That part was never really figured out), and a tragedy occurred. He had never before woken up from his nap without calling for his mom and to this day no one knows how he got out that back door. The local newspaper allowed comments on the story about this sweet little boy's death, and you would not believe the vileness. People were calling for her to be imprisoned, for her to be forced to experience what he experienced - just god awful.

So sorry to read your family's own experience. My heart goes out to that poor mom, baby, and everyone else.

[shanbrite2]

So, so heartbreaking. I am so angry that people can be so awful as to blame the mother. DD is four and has always been super cautious. Lately she's been braver, which is winderful for things like playing on the playground, but she also has started straight up leaving the house before we are ready to go, and is way less conscientious about holding hands crossing the street or running toward the street ahead of us (from the child who had to be CARRIED across the street 6 months ago). Fucking terrifies me. I just can't imagine if something happens to her and leaves MH all alone