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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly don’t understand how this happens. I’m a nanny and work 12-16hrs a day and I’m always behind the kids like a helicopter. Whenever I see YouTube videos of kids covered in flour or painting on the walls, I don’t understand how that happens- unless you’re lazy and not following your kids around? I’ve been a nanny for 22 years and I’ve never had a broken bone or major fall or big mess, because I’m always supervising the kids. If I had my own, I’d be doing the same. It’s lazy parenting. [/quote]

You never went to the bathroom without them? Or had to take an important phone call? Or ran outside to get the mail. I suspect you have left them unattended for short amounts of time and just got lucky. Most parents do the best they can. Sometimes you don’t realize a dangerous situation until something happens. Sometimes luck is just not with you. Whatever happened that day, you can be sure those parents regret every second of it and wish for for a do over more than anything else. [/quote]
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The smugness of some here is sickening.[/quote]

And we all should be grateful for the near misses, the accidents somehow avoided, the days when our lives weren’t upended by a choice we made. You can sit here and judge this family, but I instead just try to be grateful that so far, luck has been with me and we have been spared this terrible result. No one deserves for this to happen and the smugness exhibited here does not actually insulate your children from potential harm. [/quote]

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Smug nanny, you really need to check your perception on reality, because these kinds of tragedies can and do happen in seconds, and it’s not always due to neglect or whatever you want to frame it as.

I’m a bit of a helicopter (okay, by DCUM standards, a smothering helicopter). DD, now 2.5, is pretty much in my direct reach or line of sight at all times. I can probably count the number of times I’ve been in the bathroom alone since her birth if I think about it hard enough.

We were at a friend’s house for the evening, and as it often happens, the men settled in one room, and the women in another.  The rooms were separated by one stair rise into another room. The kids, of similar age and older, were going in between the two rooms. DD was in the room with me, went to see DH, came back less than 30 seconds later in an absolute blood bath. She had tripped somewhere along the path, and seriously bit her lip and damaged two teeth. I guess I could have followed her back and forth the hundred times that she went, like all the kids were doing, but the house was child proofed and you really can’t be there all the time. 30 seconds is all it took, and in that 30, she had been with DH some of it. There were more than 15 adults around between the three rooms, none of us drinking more than a single glass of wine or beer, and everyone (including the host’s parents) keeping an eye out for all the kids in general.

This past weekend, a friend had her 4 year old out on her bike in their driveway. I wasn’t there, but know enough that she is VERY cautious and would have been within arms reach. As it was, her daughter fell, knocked out several teeth requiring emergency surgery, and despite correct use of a helmet, a head injury was suspected (more due to the jaw impact).

Cautiousness and smugness doesn’t out bid the laws of physics, luck, and physiology of the human body.

I feel for this family. Her comments about being child free for her honeymoon are now going to be misrepresented. Her ability to care for a child while her husband travels will come into question. But let’s be honest : what parent doesn’t revel to be by themselves once in a while, and how many posts do we see on this board alone about parents who even have to do ONE night or week of bedtime alone feeling overwhelmed and challenged? If she didn’t work on her abs, every magazine and blog would be calling her out for letting herself go, next time she walks the red carpet with her husband.

We should be supporting Heringa her time of grief, but instead everyone is going to take her down for being the partner of a celebrity, and it’s sickening.

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