Child Deaths

Last Saturday, my cousin called to share that her neighbour's 3 year old child had fallen off the balcony to her death... I can only imagine the pain of a mother's grief to lose a child... so suddenly at that.. this is the third of such deaths in 2 months and I wonder why parents still persist in leaving their children unsupervised.

I wondered why parents still persist in leaving their children alone at home despite all this news... I can only imagine the pain of those parents as they battled with the 'what ifs', the guilt...

The two previous deaths had both children completely alone at home. The child who recently died last weekend was left unsupervised for a few minutes as her parent went to change in the room... and she died as she fell off the balcony...wat made other parents think that their children will be safe if left for a few hours? Why do parents still do this? ... cos of the belief that nothing will happen to their child.. the "it won't happen to me/my child" syndrome..

Of late, there were other child deaths/accidents be it here or across the causeway and all of them bore similar characteristics... that children, not yet of age to ever be able to protect themselves adequately being left completely alone at home. The image of an 18 mth old child cringing with her face covered with her hands... frozen in death... is an image too hard to bear.. as she had been left alone with her 4 year old siblings and the house caught fire...

How many more of such deaths do we have to hear about?