Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident

[Anonymous]

This is the age when children are most able to get themselves into terrible situations with falling into pools or getting into tiny spaces like wells.

[Anonymous]

Accidents happen. Pools and small children don't mix. Poor parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for them and also disgusted that the adults didn’t do a better job protecting him.

+1

Be within touching distance of your children at the pool and keep a hawk-eye on them. Yes, at all times. As parents you do not get to enjoy and relax at the pool if your kids are swimming.

[Anonymous]

I'm in the camp of feeling more sorry for the child who doesn't get to grow up because of adult negligence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obviously we need a common sense national ban on swimming pools.

Honestly, people with small children should not have pools. You cannot watch your kids 100% of the time.

+1. I don’t know these people but I obviously feel very sorry for them. But toddlers and preschoolers are sneaky. I could never relax if I had a house with a pool with young kids at home. Don’t know how people in FL do it where backyard pools are the norm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know these people, but anyone losing a child is an experience that I wouldn’t dismiss. God bless them and preserve us.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in the camp of feeling more sorry for the child who doesn't get to grow up because of adult negligence

You guys are horrible. 3 year olds can vanish in an instant. There but for the grace of God go I. Unlucky tragedies happen everyday, hope that the next mistake you make isn't one that ruins the rest of your life and ends another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obviously we need a common sense national ban on swimming pools.

Honestly, people with small children should not have pools. You cannot watch your kids 100% of the time.

+1. I don’t know these people but I obviously feel very sorry for them. But toddlers and preschoolers are sneaky. I could never relax if I had a house with a pool with young kids at home. Don’t know how people in FL do it where backyard pools are the norm.

I was paranoid about pools (and hot tubs!) when mine were younger. Avoided them in home searches and beach rentals. My youngest is 6 now and a good swimmer, but I still watch her in the deep end of the pool.

[Anonymous]

It really can happen in a second. I was swimming WITH my kid, in touching distance. DC’s hands slipped off the kickboard, and boom, sank like a stone. I grabbed DC immediately and everything was OK, but it took literally one second to start a potential catastrophe.

Those poor parents. There but for the grace of God go any of us. No one can watch their kids 24/7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obviously we need a common sense national ban on swimming pools.

Honestly, people with small children should not have pools. You cannot watch your kids 100% of the time.

+1. I don’t know these people but I obviously feel very sorry for them. But toddlers and preschoolers are sneaky. I could never relax if I had a house with a pool with young kids at home. Don’t know how people in FL do it where backyard pools are the norm.

PP here. We had a pool and I moved to a different house once I had kids. I could
never relax because of it. I was constantly vigilant and that is a very stressful way to live.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eh. Never heard of this person and I don’t have a ton of sympathy for preventable tragedies like this. Watch your kids. Have an alarm on the door leading to the pool. Have a gate around the pool. It’s not rocket science.

Agreed.

You both are heartless.

Nope, just practical. The mother of this child? Was posting gleefully about a honeymoon sans kids and working on her abs 4 days before her 3rd child died.

I wonder where she was while he was falling into the pool and dying alone.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh. Never heard of this person and I don’t have a ton of sympathy for preventable tragedies like this. Watch your kids. Have an alarm on the door leading to the pool. Have a gate around the pool. It’s not rocket science.

Agreed.

You're both awful. I agree with safety first, but this is someone's child who died.

sick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh. Never heard of this person and I don’t have a ton of sympathy for preventable tragedies like this. Watch your kids. Have an alarm on the door leading to the pool. Have a gate around the pool. It’s not rocket science.

Agreed.

You both are heartless.

Nope, just practical. The mother of this child? Was posting gleefully about a honeymoon sans kids and working on her abs 4 days before her 3rd child died.

I wonder where she was while he was falling into the pool and dying alone.

You better hope something like this never happens to you, because you won't have all the answers. You're not practical, you lack empathy.

Sociopaths lack empathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obviously we need a common sense national ban on swimming pools.

Honestly, people with small children should not have pools. You cannot watch your kids 100% of the time.

+1. I don’t know these people but I obviously feel very sorry for them. But toddlers and preschoolers are sneaky. I could never relax if I had a house with a pool with young kids at home. Don’t know how people in FL do it where backyard pools are the norm.

We automatically nixed any home with a pool while house hunting. Also passed up on a house with a gorgeous koi pond for the same reason.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely tragic. I can’t imagine ever being comfortable staying in a house with a pool with a young child in my care. It’s like having a predator living on your property.