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Location: Formerly Pleasanton Ca, now in Marietta Ga
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Originally Posted by CypressHeat
These are the stories that hit you right in the gut. I've never lost a little one, heck I don't even have kids, but the thought of a little one trying to make their back inside because it's too cold and not being able to really does some damage to my emotions.
One of my sons is an escape artist and I do find myself getting up and checking the doors at least once a night, just in case, and I've been known to wake up randomly and go around the house making sure I have "eyes on" all of the kids. I'm not paranoid really but my one son is autistic and I hear of them escaping and dying of exposure a lot, even when they get older. It happened to a teenager not too long ago in this area. He keeps getting better at escaping the older he gets too. He's 7 now and we've just reached the point where we can't put the locks high enough where he can't get to them. Not sure what to do from here!
I live not too far from where this latest incident happened and it certainly has been extremely cold the last few nights. Heart wrenching what happened to this poor girl. I can't imagine what her parents must be going though.
Have you done internet research on what you can do? This is also a problem with dementia patients. You can use multiple methods to make escape much more difficult.
Frankly, I don't care if a keyed inside lock is a fire hazard if I had a child that was at great risk of leaving the home in sub zero weather. Keep the key on you and the kid never gets it.
Have you done internet research on what you can do? This is also a problem with dementia patients. You can use multiple methods to make escape much more difficult.
Frankly, I don't care if a keyed inside lock is a fire hazard if I had a child that was at great risk of leaving the home in sub zero weather. Keep the key on you and the kid never gets it.
All kids are at risk of doing something like this.
The point is to try to prevent it using all possible tools available.
I understand that. I just felt it singled her/ her parents out in some way to imply she was at greater risk than any other toddler. It could have been the first time she ever did anything like that.
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