A Tragedy (Waiting to Happen)?

This is so sad. But you know kids will be kids. I watch my grandkids and they take off and am running after them. This was a freak thing that happened to this poor little girl and probably was accident. Think back when you were a child. Things were not made as safe as they are now and well we survived and you know we gave our parents a run for their money. Thinks the only thing we can do is just keep the kids home but then again the same thing can happen in your own backyard.Rug burns in the house or hitting their little heads on something ect.

Hmm... which playground is this? It seems that the latest designs in playground is very nice in asthestics, but very poor in design in terms of safety. Just the other day, at Fernvale, I saw the new playground there. The slide is just one long winding bar down with no sides. The child have to literally slide down the slide with no barrier to bloster her turns as she goes down the slide. It is so dangerous. I will see if I can post a picture of what I mean.

It is so sad to hear such a tragic story. As a mother of an active 2 year old son, I know how difficult it is to manage a child. Always things worries when we see our son moving around very fast. Things were beyond my control when he was still younger. I had to take the help of others as he runs very fast. Sometimes he runs to road from playground. I had to be really watchful. Now he has grown a bit and so my load has decreased. I have another child also on the way. As this accident happened in Singapore, I am even more worried.

Don't know whether you caught this, but on America's Funniest Home Videos this past weekend, they played a video of a husband and wife arguing over their child's supervision on the playground. The mother was taping and insisted her husband watch their son closer. She zoomed in on a sign that read children under 5 should be well supervised. The husband was talking to his wife, to the camera, his back to the child who suddenly went head over tea kettle on the slide. (BTW the video won the $10,000 first prize that week!) My kids are older now but I continue to have to remind them that "Mom is always right". And this woman sure told her husband that. I remember talking to a relative on the phone a long time ago and he was laughing because his little girl (the same age as my daughter who is now 15) was walking on the kitchen counter. I told him that was not a good idea and he asked why. I told him that if he allowed her to do that while he was there she was most likely to go and do it when no one was watching. Men! They think they are invincible themselves and they seem to think the same of their children for some reason. It is too bad that it takes something like this to happen before people wake up, and even then it may not wake some up (men are stubborn). My prayers for that little girl's family.

It's really devastating. I have two nieces, three and one. Every time I'm with them, I always make sure that someone, either myself, my fiance, his sister, their mom, is watching them very closely. And this is why. It's to prevent any type of accident to occur.

Hi sydney~That is an awfully sad story. It is a very tragic accident. I'm sure whomever was watching her is devastated. Sometimes you just can't be careful enough. A child that age does move very quickly and must be watched over ever minute. I'm sure she climbed those steps many times and nothing ever happened. But, accidents unfortunately do happen and this one was fatal. Since I don't know the events leading up to the accident we can't be sure if this accident could have been prevented if someone was standing close to her or not. May God bless her and her family.

Hi SydneyHazelton, You're right, that is very tragic news. Anytime someone is killed it is tragic, but it is more so when the victim is a child. It is difficult for the parent to be watching all the time, but that seems to be what they have to do. It has to be very upsetting for the parent involved, I hope that others will learn from it. Blessings.

I agree that you have to be especially watchful when it comes to the little ones. My grandson is two and he is a daredevil...he doesn't understand the dangers of climbing and will climb on anything he can...just because it's there. My daughter has to watch him like a hawk...and I do, too, when he's in my yard or my home. I am so sad for that little girl and for her family.

God has surely welcomed that innocent soul! She fell on hard cement? I've always been very critical of playgrounds that have concrete grounds - kids will be kids, as they run and jump and climb, they trip, they stumble, they fall. And there's really nothing like constant vigilance on the part of the supervising adults! Take care always, Sydney!

hi! this is really a sad news. a child at a young age must really need supervision. I also do the same with my son. I'm always at his side although he keeps on telling me that he can do it by himself. I'm just afraid something might happen.

what a sad thing to happen.i bet the person who was supose to be watching her at the time is full of guilt.it just goes to show that you really need to be with any child when they are in situations like this.no matter how well they normaly do it there is always the chance of them hurting themselves. as they say when you have chlidren you need eyes in the back of your head and it is true. my heart goes out to the family