Toddler killed

[beejaybee]

Did anyone hear about a three year old little girl who was killed by a casserole dish?? She was helping mummy clear the table, she dropped the casserole dish & a shard of glass flew up cutting her jugular. What a tragic accident. It`s something that could happen to any of us as we`ve all let our kids/grandkids etc "help us."

[yinyang]

It is tragic. One of these these things you would never think of in a million years. Unfortunately, no- one could have prevented it. If the glass had gone a centimetre or two either way she may have survived.
I do tend only to let my kids carry light or unbreakable things when they help me clear the table but if you take your eyes off them for a split second they do try and lift all sorts of things.
If you really thought about all the things that could harm your children or any of the freak accidents that could occur you would never let them leave their beds! It's scary how a split second can change your life forever.But we just have to let them go and take their chances same as everbody else.
My heart really goes out to this little girls family.

[loopyc]

terrible really feel for the family.

[beejaybee]

yinyang. Yes I agree. You have to let them be a bit "inedpendant" & my grandchildren always want to "help" me. As you say, we can`t protect them from EVERY danger in life no matter how much we want to.

[electricblue]

What a freak tragic accident,as beejaybee says,kids like to help and at this time the mother must be feeling like sh*t,if only she hadn't let her daughter help?
but it doesn't work like that does it,i really feel for them at this time!

[~Wingnut~]

I read about this last night on the BBC news website, I was in tears by the time I had read it all, so very, very tragic.

[Dizzieblonde]

The odds of that happening must be so slim though, but I suppose that's no comfort to the parents - they'll still blame themselves, even though it was just a freak accident.

[enigma]

I hadn't heard about that but that is so sad. How awful for her family. My youngest daughter is three and I couldn't bear to think about life without her - or indeed any of my three children - especially under circumstances such as those. How very tragic indeed.

[beejaybee]

I do hope that this family can come to terms with what was after all a tragic accident. No one was to blame, it could have happened to any of us. I just hope that the mum will not become over protective with other children. If there are any.