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ummm....when you fell that could not be helped but if your child had not only been holding your hand but had also been connected to you by, say, the wrist strap type of restraint then you would have had one less thing to worry about.
'A little boy fascinated by trains perhaps/ A mother's momentary lapse in concentration? '
IMHO in a moment of lapse of concentration a tug on the reins from a child trying to run off would concentrate my mind completely.
I have not posted the original post in order to upset anyone...quite the reverse.....I did it in order to make people think, and if only 1parent who reads my posts and buys child reins then I will be very happy.
Of course it is a tragic loss and I am sure the parents will beat themselves up about it for the rest of their lives, and so they should. this could have so easily been prevented.
And as for a previous poster trying to find someone else of something else to blame....well, it just saddens me. OK so the gate may not be able to be locked but even if it had someone may have left it unlocked, hence the overwhelming need for adults to have the young children restrained in some way.
When my children were small if they were not in their buggy then they were held by me by the hand and reins.
It is not rocket science, just common sense.
a posting above mentions that some children have always been mis-handled in the past and things have gone wrong. Therefore there is no excuse for not doing all we can to stop children dying in this tragic way. I, for one, am really upset when I see a family walking along the street and one or more of the toddlers are way in front or way behind the adults. How can they not know that this is dangerous?
I am not perfect and as a parent I made mistakes. Therefore I speak from my own experience of child rearing. But all my children grew up to be adults and I w