Bode and Morgan Miller's Kids - bad luck

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Anonymous wrote:I think they're just really bad parents. I forgot about this one just a year or two after their toddler drowned because they weren't paying attention to her.

https://www.etonline.com/bode-miller-and-wife-morgans-son-has-seizure-is-rushed-to-same-hospital-where-their-daughter-died

How is a child having a seizure the parent’s fault? I agree with you they aren’t good people, but this isn’t a good example.

They had a perfectly healthy daughter who died because she was unsupervised at a pool party and drowned. If she had a seizure while being resuscitated is not the point.

If they had paid for a babysitter that day or simply watched their kid, she would be alive.

It wasn’t even a pool party. It was a visit to a family - a playdate. How hard os it to watch your toddler??

I haven't liked them since the Sarh Mckenna thing either. However, it takes only 20 seconds for a 2-year old to drown. I watched my babies like a hawk around water, but when that happened, it felt like it could have been us and I mourned with them. I am sure she's not the only parent who's looked away for ~ 20 seconds. It was horrible.

They didn't look away, they were nowhere near the kid.

The toddler literally left the house. How does that happen on a playdate in someone else’s home?

You’re making it seem like the kid opened the door and walked 3 blocks away and fell in a pool. Morgan was in the kitchen and the child had been in the attached family/living room (I think articles said it was an open layout). The child opened a french door from the family room/living room and the pool was right there attached to the patio.

No idea where Bode was, but Morgan was provably less than 20’ from her daughter and didn’t see her open the door. I’m sure they didn’t except the backdoor to be unlocked but even if it was, they still didn’t expect their child to fall into a pool and drown.

How do you know this for sure?

If you go to a house with a pool, first you check yourself to make sure doors are locked and can’t be opened by kids before they are out of your sight. You sit near them on the play date, you don’t stay in the kitchen gabbing while your 19 month old wanders off in someone’s home unattended. I learned basic pool safety with kids when I was a teenager and babysat for a family that had a pool. The mom was neurotic about pool safety. One thing she did was always lock the back door that opened to the pool. It was a lock that was at the top of the door that only an adult could open. She always also made sure the pool gate was shut and latched. She would double check it as soon as kids arrived at her house.

Also, kids that young should never be out of your sight.

Agree, Morgan was sipping tea with her neighbor and did not have eyes on her the whole time. And it was probably several minutes, maybe 4 min, not 20 seconds that she did not have eyes on the toddler.

She was at a tea party?

Visiting next door neighbor. Having tea in kitchen. Not a party. Not an evening gathering. Just a playdate, had been there many times.

It was 630 in the evening when she drowned. Not sure why you keep trying to downplay this as a playdate. It’s never been reported as playdate. There was no wild party as was initially reported, but multiple people were at the neighbors house. https://people.com/parents/bode-miller-daughter-drowning-death-details/

Your links says only a couple of people were there.

"Contrary to rumors of a larger gathering, Concialdi says only “a couple of people” were at the neighbor’s house when Emeline wandered away, and “nobody was in the backyard” during the incident."

Is that supposed to be better? That makes it worse. There were only a few people so it wasn't chaotic. They should have known where she was at all times.

Exactly, it was not a chaotic situation. It was not a pool party. It was not a party.It was two moms having tea, older boys playing together in the house, toddler wandering around the house by herself. She didn’t have eyes on the toddler. It was only when she couldn’t hear her toddler anymore, that she checked. Toddler had gone out the back door and walked into the pool. Several minutes went by.

Sorry, all you people saying it could happen to anyone - no. This wouldn’t happen to me. And it wouldn’t happen to me that my kids get carbon monoxide poisoning outside because they’re by themselves watching a large vehicle. And it wouldn’t happen to me that I am involved in a lawsuit to get custody of an unborn child or another child for whom I’m not even the biological mother.

They have poor judgement.

You keep saying this as if it’s true.

Ok so maybe they weren’t having tea. That’s not the point. It was not a gathering or party of any kind. It was a get together with the neighbors, a playdate basically. Bode was not there. Why are you so focused on tea?!

Because facts matter and you keep posting made up things. All that has been said is it wasn’t a party, but that several people were there. In the evening. You keep posting this was a playdate between 2 moms to further your agenda.

You're arguing with two different posters.

She WAS having TEA! There was one other person, most probably a mom, and not a dad, or nanny or other adult. Two moms, at one of the mom's houses, talking together and having tea or some other drink and food, while children are playing --> This is called a PLAYDATE.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympic...eath-emmy/862146002/

"She had walked with her kids to the neighbor's house that morning and was drinking tea while they played nearby. "

The child drowned in the evening. Why are you talking about what Morgan did in the am?

What’s it called when someone keeps wanting to distract with inaccurate information?

Morgan was drinking tea with her neighbor in their house and did not have eyes on her 19 month toddler, who was moving around in the house and ended up walking out the back door and drowning. She was found at 630 pm. Likely several minutes had passed.

As much as you would like to portray this as a chaotic party situation in the evening that led to a tragic event that could happen to anyone, it’s not true.

Found it. obfuscating

I know you think you are perfect, you’ll find out one day how much you’re not. Hopefully you’re fall will impact just you and not your family. God speed.

What does this even mean?

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Anonymous wrote:As to the poster who decries those of us who refuse to offer unqualified sympathy - sorry, but I DO have unqualified sympathy for the children whose lives are cut short, often brutally, by the negligence of their parents.

Dead children get my sympathy, not the parents who got them dead by parenting failure.

The woman in Arizona who ran her six year old over with an outboard motorboat, cutting her to pieces and ending her life because six adults couldn’t keep track of six children while boating on the water is a great example. Nearly all of these horrific tragedies ending in the death or disabling or permanent disfigurement of a child are the result of negligent parenting or guardianship of the child by one or more responsible adults who didn’t act responsibly. It’s hard to care for kids and keep them safe from the kinds of risks their brains are too undeveloped to appreciate. But many many people manage it and those who don’t are in almost all cases negligent. It makes me angry that children as so undervalued in our society that we write off justice for them by declaring the parent’s guilt and grief as punishment enough.

If society tells you it’s sad and tragic but ultimately okay to negligently kill your kid, what disincentive is there that might compel you to be a better parent in future? The Miller family is the example of how a negligent parent continues being negligent. Nobody even made her take a parenting course after her unattended toddler drowned, I’m sure. And then she nearly suffocated all her other kids to death.

I'm the poster you are railing at. I started posting in this thread because of all of the posts agreeing that the parents here are cursed because of what has befallen their children.

While I strenuously disagree with your point generally, it is telling that THIS is what you object to and not the posters cackling with glee about Bode and Morgan Miller getting hit by karma in the form of a child dying. My rage started because people seemed to think that they deserved the death of a three year old and ignoring the fact that the child is the one who was hurt there. So focused on the parents actions they were blind to the fact that an actual literal real life human child died and the loss of her life impacted no one more than HER.

So feel proud of yourself for being such a wonderful parent and judgmental person but question why you hold such viciousness for parents but seem to fall into the same trap others do of having your bloodthirst for guilt and shame be greater than your awareness of the children impacted by these events.

Where have you been? Emmy was 19 months old! Not 3.

The age of the kid who died didn't matter to my disgust towards posters using her death as proof of karma. I don't know these people, I just know abhorrent adult behavior when I see it.

You play fast and loose with the facts and then say they aren't important.

1) You have no idea what posts are mine other than these two
2) There is no fact in this case or the case of any child's death that would make me think it was anything other than abhorrent if a person said that a child died because the parents had done something bad a long time ago. There is no fact that would make me anything other than disgusted by a person saying a child suffered a terrible accidental death as karmic retribution against that innocent child's parents.

I mean is it really any different than religious people who say it happened for a 'reason'?

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Either way it is neglectful/bad parenting not to supervise your kids well.

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Anonymous wrote:As to the poster who decries those of us who refuse to offer unqualified sympathy - sorry, but I DO have unqualified sympathy for the children whose lives are cut short, often brutally, by the negligence of their parents.

Dead children get my sympathy, not the parents who got them dead by parenting failure.

The woman in Arizona who ran her six year old over with an outboard motorboat, cutting her to pieces and ending her life because six adults couldn’t keep track of six children while boating on the water is a great example. Nearly all of these horrific tragedies ending in the death or disabling or permanent disfigurement of a child are the result of negligent parenting or guardianship of the child by one or more responsible adults who didn’t act responsibly. It’s hard to care for kids and keep them safe from the kinds of risks their brains are too undeveloped to appreciate. But many many people manage it and those who don’t are in almost all cases negligent. It makes me angry that children as so undervalued in our society that we write off justice for them by declaring the parent’s guilt and grief as punishment enough.

If society tells you it’s sad and tragic but ultimately okay to negligently kill your kid, what disincentive is there that might compel you to be a better parent in future? The Miller family is the example of how a negligent parent continues being negligent. Nobody even made her take a parenting course after her unattended toddler drowned, I’m sure. And then she nearly suffocated all her other kids to death.

I'm the poster you are railing at. I started posting in this thread because of all of the posts agreeing that the parents here are cursed because of what has befallen their children.

While I strenuously disagree with your point generally, it is telling that THIS is what you object to and not the posters cackling with glee about Bode and Morgan Miller getting hit by karma in the form of a child dying. My rage started because people seemed to think that they deserved the death of a three year old and ignoring the fact that the child is the one who was hurt there. So focused on the parents actions they were blind to the fact that an actual literal real life human child died and the loss of her life impacted no one more than HER.

So feel proud of yourself for being such a wonderful parent and judgmental person but question why you hold such viciousness for parents but seem to fall into the same trap others do of having your bloodthirst for guilt and shame be greater than your awareness of the children impacted by these events.

Where have you been? Emmy was 19 months old! Not 3.

The age of the kid who died didn't matter to my disgust towards posters using her death as proof of karma. I don't know these people, I just know abhorrent adult behavior when I see it.

You play fast and loose with the facts and then say they aren't important.

1) You have no idea what posts are mine other than these two
2) There is no fact in this case or the case of any child's death that would make me think it was anything other than abhorrent if a person said that a child died because the parents had done something bad a long time ago. There is no fact that would make me anything other than disgusted by a person saying a child suffered a terrible accidental death as karmic retribution against that innocent child's parents.

I mean is it really any different than religious people who say it happened for a 'reason'?

I’m not particularly fond of those people either, they’re pretty universally criticized at this point

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Anonymous wrote:Either way it is neglectful/bad parenting not to supervise your kids well.

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Anonymous wrote:As to the poster who decries those of us who refuse to offer unqualified sympathy - sorry, but I DO have unqualified sympathy for the children whose lives are cut short, often brutally, by the negligence of their parents.

Dead children get my sympathy, not the parents who got them dead by parenting failure.

The woman in Arizona who ran her six year old over with an outboard motorboat, cutting her to pieces and ending her life because six adults couldn’t keep track of six children while boating on the water is a great example. Nearly all of these horrific tragedies ending in the death or disabling or permanent disfigurement of a child are the result of negligent parenting or guardianship of the child by one or more responsible adults who didn’t act responsibly. It’s hard to care for kids and keep them safe from the kinds of risks their brains are too undeveloped to appreciate. But many many people manage it and those who don’t are in almost all cases negligent. It makes me angry that children as so undervalued in our society that we write off justice for them by declaring the parent’s guilt and grief as punishment enough.

If society tells you it’s sad and tragic but ultimately okay to negligently kill your kid, what disincentive is there that might compel you to be a better parent in future? The Miller family is the example of how a negligent parent continues being negligent. Nobody even made her take a parenting course after her unattended toddler drowned, I’m sure. And then she nearly suffocated all her other kids to death.

I'm the poster you are railing at. I started posting in this thread because of all of the posts agreeing that the parents here are cursed because of what has befallen their children.

While I strenuously disagree with your point generally, it is telling that THIS is what you object to and not the posters cackling with glee about Bode and Morgan Miller getting hit by karma in the form of a child dying. My rage started because people seemed to think that they deserved the death of a three year old and ignoring the fact that the child is the one who was hurt there. So focused on the parents actions they were blind to the fact that an actual literal real life human child died and the loss of her life impacted no one more than HER.

So feel proud of yourself for being such a wonderful parent and judgmental person but question why you hold such viciousness for parents but seem to fall into the same trap others do of having your bloodthirst for guilt and shame be greater than your awareness of the children impacted by these events.

Where have you been? Emmy was 19 months old! Not 3.

The age of the kid who died didn't matter to my disgust towards posters using her death as proof of karma. I don't know these people, I just know abhorrent adult behavior when I see it.

You play fast and loose with the facts and then say they aren't important.

1) You have no idea what posts are mine other than these two
2) There is no fact in this case or the case of any child's death that would make me think it was anything other than abhorrent if a person said that a child died because the parents had done something bad a long time ago. There is no fact that would make me anything other than disgusted by a person saying a child suffered a terrible accidental death as karmic retribution against that innocent child's parents.

I mean is it really any different than religious people who say it happened for a 'reason'?

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Anonymous wrote:As to the poster who decries those of us who refuse to offer unqualified sympathy - sorry, but I DO have unqualified sympathy for the children whose lives are cut short, often brutally, by the negligence of their parents.

Dead children get my sympathy, not the parents who got them dead by parenting failure.

The woman in Arizona who ran her six year old over with an outboard motorboat, cutting her to pieces and ending her life because six adults couldn’t keep track of six children while boating on the water is a great example. Nearly all of these horrific tragedies ending in the death or disabling or permanent disfigurement of a child are the result of negligent parenting or guardianship of the child by one or more responsible adults who didn’t act responsibly. It’s hard to care for kids and keep them safe from the kinds of risks their brains are too undeveloped to appreciate. But many many people manage it and those who don’t are in almost all cases negligent. It makes me angry that children as so undervalued in our society that we write off justice for them by declaring the parent’s guilt and grief as punishment enough.

If society tells you it’s sad and tragic but ultimately okay to negligently kill your kid, what disincentive is there that might compel you to be a better parent in future? The Miller family is the example of how a negligent parent continues being negligent. Nobody even made her take a parenting course after her unattended toddler drowned, I’m sure. And then she nearly suffocated all her other kids to death.

I'm the poster you are railing at. I started posting in this thread because of all of the posts agreeing that the parents here are cursed because of what has befallen their children.

While I strenuously disagree with your point generally, it is telling that THIS is what you object to and not the posters cackling with glee about Bode and Morgan Miller getting hit by karma in the form of a child dying. My rage started because people seemed to think that they deserved the death of a three year old and ignoring the fact that the child is the one who was hurt there. So focused on the parents actions they were blind to the fact that an actual literal real life human child died and the loss of her life impacted no one more than HER.

So feel proud of yourself for being such a wonderful parent and judgmental person but question why you hold such viciousness for parents but seem to fall into the same trap others do of having your bloodthirst for guilt and shame be greater than your awareness of the children impacted by these events.

Not one poster is cackling with glee over the child’s death. There are some that are saying this might be karma for the awful thing they did to Sara’s son Sam (which they renamed Nate without her permission) but that is absolutely not the same as taking delight in it.

And by the way, Morgan referred to Nate as she was explaining her neglect of Emmy.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they're just really bad parents. I forgot about this one just a year or two after their toddler drowned because they weren't paying attention to her.

https://www.etonline.com/bode-miller-and-wife-morgans-son-has-seizure-is-rushed-to-same-hospital-where-their-daughter-died

How is a child having a seizure the parent’s fault? I agree with you they aren’t good people, but this isn’t a good example.

They had a perfectly healthy daughter who died because she was unsupervised at a pool party and drowned. If she had a seizure while being resuscitated is not the point.

If they had paid for a babysitter that day or simply watched their kid, she would be alive.

I agree. The kid who had the seizure, though, was not Emmy, it was one of the twin boys, and that happened way after Emmy died. The seizure occurred because the boy had a high fever. I was saying that that seizure is not an example of neglect.

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I would love to know how the custody case is settled. “Nate” aka Sam is always featured in their family photos. Did Sara just allow them to keep calling him Nate?

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know how the custody case is settled. “Nate” aka Sam is always featured in their family photos. Did Sara just allow them to keep calling him Nate?

They share custody. His legal name is Sam. The Millers don’t use his legal name because they are horrible people. At this point Sam probably understands that and just sucks it up.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know how the custody case is settled. “Nate” aka Sam is always featured in their family photos. Did Sara just allow them to keep calling him Nate?

They share custody. His legal name is Sam. The Millers don’t use his legal name because they are horrible people. At this point Sam probably understands that and just sucks it up.

I hope the kid doesn’t get messed up with being called two names.

If I were Sara, I’d be so f*** paranoid that the Millers would be negligent while he is there on visitation and something terrible would happen to him. Hope she got a lot of child support for the grief they gave her.

They are horrible people. Narcissistic and stupid people who see children as extensions of themselves.
Morgan miscarries and a month later they pursue custody of Bode’s biological kids that he has no interest in previously. “don’t worry honey, we’ll just take these other two kids from their moms”.

f** them.

Why the f** would you name a child after a brother who died?
Then they named their own biological son Nash Skan. Wtf stupid name is that? I just hear Trash Can.

Stupid stupid people.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3089358/Champion-skier-Bode-Miller-names-newborn-son-Nash-Skan-tribute-younger-brother-passed-away.html

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know how the custody case is settled. “Nate” aka Sam is always featured in their family photos. Did Sara just allow them to keep calling him Nate?

They share custody. His legal name is Sam. The Millers don’t use his legal name because they are horrible people. At this point Sam probably understands that and just sucks it up.

I hope the kid doesn’t get messed up with being called two names.

If I were Sara, I’d be so f*** paranoid that the Millers would be negligent while he is there on visitation and something terrible would happen to him. Hope she got a lot of child support for the grief they gave her.

They are horrible people. Narcissistic and stupid people who see children as extensions of themselves.
Morgan miscarries and a month later they pursue custody of Bode’s biological kids that he has no interest in previously. “don’t worry honey, we’ll just take these other two kids from their moms”.

f** them.

Why the f** would you name a child after a brother who died?
Then they named their own biological son Nash Skan. Wtf stupid name is that? I just hear Trash Can.

Stupid stupid people.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3089358/Champion-skier-Bode-Miller-names-newborn-son-Nash-Skan-tribute-younger-brother-passed-away.html

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Anonymous wrote:As to the poster who decries those of us who refuse to offer unqualified sympathy - sorry, but I DO have unqualified sympathy for the children whose lives are cut short, often brutally, by the negligence of their parents.

Dead children get my sympathy, not the parents who got them dead by parenting failure.

The woman in Arizona who ran her six year old over with an outboard motorboat, cutting her to pieces and ending her life because six adults couldn’t keep track of six children while boating on the water is a great example. Nearly all of these horrific tragedies ending in the death or disabling or permanent disfigurement of a child are the result of negligent parenting or guardianship of the child by one or more responsible adults who didn’t act responsibly. It’s hard to care for kids and keep them safe from the kinds of risks their brains are too undeveloped to appreciate. But many many people manage it and those who don’t are in almost all cases negligent. It makes me angry that children as so undervalued in our society that we write off justice for them by declaring the parent’s guilt and grief as punishment enough.

If society tells you it’s sad and tragic but ultimately okay to negligently kill your kid, what disincentive is there that might compel you to be a better parent in future? The Miller family is the example of how a negligent parent continues being negligent. Nobody even made her take a parenting course after her unattended toddler drowned, I’m sure. And then she nearly suffocated all her other kids to death.

I'm the poster you are railing at. I started posting in this thread because of all of the posts agreeing that the parents here are cursed because of what has befallen their children.

While I strenuously disagree with your point generally, it is telling that THIS is what you object to and not the posters cackling with glee about Bode and Morgan Miller getting hit by karma in the form of a child dying. My rage started because people seemed to think that they deserved the death of a three year old and ignoring the fact that the child is the one who was hurt there. So focused on the parents actions they were blind to the fact that an actual literal real life human child died and the loss of her life impacted no one more than HER.

So feel proud of yourself for being such a wonderful parent and judgmental person but question why you hold such viciousness for parents but seem to fall into the same trap others do of having your bloodthirst for guilt and shame be greater than your awareness of the children impacted by these events.

Not one poster is cackling with glee over the child’s death. There are some that are saying this might be karma for the awful thing they did to Sara’s son Sam (which they renamed Nate without her permission) but that is absolutely not the same as taking delight in it.

And by the way, Morgan referred to Nate as she was explaining her neglect of Emmy.

They seem to be quite satisfied with 'karma' hitting them and cursing them, despite the fact that that karma is coming in the form of a separate innocent human being.

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Anonymous wrote:As to the poster who decries those of us who refuse to offer unqualified sympathy - sorry, but I DO have unqualified sympathy for the children whose lives are cut short, often brutally, by the negligence of their parents.

Dead children get my sympathy, not the parents who got them dead by parenting failure.

The woman in Arizona who ran her six year old over with an outboard motorboat, cutting her to pieces and ending her life because six adults couldn’t keep track of six children while boating on the water is a great example. Nearly all of these horrific tragedies ending in the death or disabling or permanent disfigurement of a child are the result of negligent parenting or guardianship of the child by one or more responsible adults who didn’t act responsibly. It’s hard to care for kids and keep them safe from the kinds of risks their brains are too undeveloped to appreciate. But many many people manage it and those who don’t are in almost all cases negligent. It makes me angry that children as so undervalued in our society that we write off justice for them by declaring the parent’s guilt and grief as punishment enough.

If society tells you it’s sad and tragic but ultimately okay to negligently kill your kid, what disincentive is there that might compel you to be a better parent in future? The Miller family is the example of how a negligent parent continues being negligent. Nobody even made her take a parenting course after her unattended toddler drowned, I’m sure. And then she nearly suffocated all her other kids to death.

I'm the poster you are railing at. I started posting in this thread because of all of the posts agreeing that the parents here are cursed because of what has befallen their children.

While I strenuously disagree with your point generally, it is telling that THIS is what you object to and not the posters cackling with glee about Bode and Morgan Miller getting hit by karma in the form of a child dying. My rage started because people seemed to think that they deserved the death of a three year old and ignoring the fact that the child is the one who was hurt there. So focused on the parents actions they were blind to the fact that an actual literal real life human child died and the loss of her life impacted no one more than HER.

So feel proud of yourself for being such a wonderful parent and judgmental person but question why you hold such viciousness for parents but seem to fall into the same trap others do of having your bloodthirst for guilt and shame be greater than your awareness of the children impacted by these events.

Not one poster is cackling with glee over the child’s death. There are some that are saying this might be karma for the awful thing they did to Sara’s son Sam (which they renamed Nate without her permission) but that is absolutely not the same as taking delight in it.

And by the way, Morgan referred to Nate as she was explaining her neglect of Emmy.

They seem to be quite satisfied with 'karma' hitting them and cursing them, despite the fact that that karma is coming in the form of a separate innocent human being.

You’re reading too much into it. Maybe this isn’t the right place for you.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they're just really bad parents. I forgot about this one just a year or two after their toddler drowned because they weren't paying attention to her.

https://www.etonline.com/bode-miller-and-wife-morgans-son-has-seizure-is-rushed-to-same-hospital-where-their-daughter-died

How is a child having a seizure the parent’s fault? I agree with you they aren’t good people, but this isn’t a good example.

They had a perfectly healthy daughter who died because she was unsupervised at a pool party and drowned. If she had a seizure while being resuscitated is not the point.

If they had paid for a babysitter that day or simply watched their kid, she would be alive.

It wasn’t even a pool party. It was a visit to a family - a playdate. How hard os it to watch your toddler??

I haven't liked them since the Sarh Mckenna thing either. However, it takes only 20 seconds for a 2-year old to drown. I watched my babies like a hawk around water, but when that happened, it felt like it could have been us and I mourned with them. I am sure she's not the only parent who's looked away for ~ 20 seconds. It was horrible.

They didn't look away, they were nowhere near the kid.

The toddler literally left the house. How does that happen on a playdate in someone else’s home?

You’re making it seem like the kid opened the door and walked 3 blocks away and fell in a pool. Morgan was in the kitchen and the child had been in the attached family/living room (I think articles said it was an open layout). The child opened a french door from the family room/living room and the pool was right there attached to the patio.

No idea where Bode was, but Morgan was provably less than 20’ from her daughter and didn’t see her open the door. I’m sure they didn’t except the backdoor to be unlocked but even if it was, they still didn’t expect their child to fall into a pool and drown.

How do you know this for sure?

If you go to a house with a pool, first you check yourself to make sure doors are locked and can’t be opened by kids before they are out of your sight. You sit near them on the play date, you don’t stay in the kitchen gabbing while your 19 month old wanders off in someone’s home unattended. I learned basic pool safety with kids when I was a teenager and babysat for a family that had a pool. The mom was neurotic about pool safety. One thing she did was always lock the back door that opened to the pool. It was a lock that was at the top of the door that only an adult could open. She always also made sure the pool gate was shut and latched. She would double check it as soon as kids arrived at her house.

Also, kids that young should never be out of your sight.

Agree, Morgan was sipping tea with her neighbor and did not have eyes on her the whole time. And it was probably several minutes, maybe 4 min, not 20 seconds that she did not have eyes on the toddler.

She was at a tea party?

Visiting next door neighbor. Having tea in kitchen. Not a party. Not an evening gathering. Just a playdate, had been there many times.

It was 630 in the evening when she drowned. Not sure why you keep trying to downplay this as a playdate. It’s never been reported as playdate. There was no wild party as was initially reported, but multiple people were at the neighbors house. https://people.com/parents/bode-miller-daughter-drowning-death-details/

Your links says only a couple of people were there.

"Contrary to rumors of a larger gathering, Concialdi says only “a couple of people” were at the neighbor’s house when Emeline wandered away, and “nobody was in the backyard” during the incident."

Is that supposed to be better? That makes it worse. There were only a few people so it wasn't chaotic. They should have known where she was at all times.

Exactly, it was not a chaotic situation. It was not a pool party. It was not a party. It was two moms having tea, older boys playing together in the house, toddler wandering around the house by herself. She didn’t have eyes on the toddler. It was only when she couldn’t hear her toddler anymore, that she checked. Toddler had gone out the back door and walked into the pool. Several minutes went by.

Sorry, all you people saying it could happen to anyone - no. This wouldn’t happen to me. And it wouldn’t happen to me that my kids get carbon monoxide poisoning outside because they’re by themselves watching a large vehicle. And it wouldn’t happen to me that I am involved in a lawsuit to get custody of an unborn child or another child for whom I’m not even the biological mother.

They have poor judgement.

Two things can be true at the same time. These particular people may have poor judgment, and it can happen to anyone.

I honestly find the attitude of the “never me” posters dangerous.

I find the “it can happen to anyone” mentality dangerous.

No, it is true.

And understanding that this statement is true could literally be lifesaving (because you understand the need for physical barriers like four sided fencing). Human vigilance is the weakest link in the chain.

I have literally heard a mom whose child drowned in the backyard pool say, “I thought this only happened to people who did not watch their children.”