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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes things are a freak accident. I have a family friend, in his 50s, who suffered a severe anoxic brain injury from choking on a piece of hamburger. Heimlich was administered but he had to be trached by a paramedic. He now has about 33% brain function and is a paraplegic with a trach and a feeding tube. It sucks. Accidents happen and it's horrible when they do.

Now, if there were no teachers in the room or something along those lines, that's a different story. [/quote]
If reasonable safety precautions were observed, that's one thing. But giving meatballs to a bunch of toddlers is quite another thing.[/quote]

1) 3-year-olds aren't toddlers.

2) As many posters upthread have noted, meatballs are a pretty typical "kid food" & are not generally seen as unsafe for preschoolers as long as they are cut when necessary to lessen the risk of chocking.Whether or not it is typically seen as necessary deoends on the size & shape of the meatballs in question.

Since we don't even know what kind of meatballs were served or whether or not said meatballs were cut up by the staff prior to being given to the kids, isn't it more than a bit premature to decide that the daycare put the kids in undue harm just by serving  meatballs?[/quote]

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