katydid23
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It is really hard to bring myself to suspect a grieving mother of having anything to do with her child's demise. But I just cannot understand how a mother could walk away from two toddlers, who are sitting in the jaws of the angry ocean, just so she can retrieve a tennis ball. It makes no sense to me at all. Like most mothers, I have done dumb things that have put my kids in harms way. I have turned my back on them in a toy store to get something from the next aisle and sneak it into the cart. Left a sleeping baby in the back seat of the car while I stepped up the the outside ATM, all the while keeping on eye on the car. Stupid decisions, admittedly.
But when I saw just how far she had to walk, and where it was she left her two little girls, it was astonishing. And she knows the danger the ocean holds. It just does not seem possible that she would go so far away without understanding the likely outcome, imo.
So when people argue that we all do stupid things, and we all put our kids in danger in some ways, I agree. But this situation went beyond the usual safety gamble. IMO
But when I saw just how far she had to walk, and where it was she left her two little girls, it was astonishing. And she knows the danger the ocean holds. It just does not seem possible that she would go so far away without understanding the likely outcome, imo.
So when people argue that we all do stupid things, and we all put our kids in danger in some ways, I agree. But this situation went beyond the usual safety gamble. IMO