2 twin toddlers drown in unattended backyard pool, mental challenged grandma left back door open, mom home-schooling older kid.

[Scott Downey]

Tragedy In Oklahoma As Unattended Twin Toddlers Drown In Backyard Pool

Every parent's nightmare is losing a child. The grief and anguish are something that some people never recover from. It doesn't matter the situation, whether

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No 4 foot fence around pool as required by Oklahoma law.

 

[Patrick1966]

Horrible story. Just awful. May God ease their suffering.

 

[Scott Downey]

One of my 4 yr old kids back decades ago in the mid 80's, I was our front working on a car. She was in the fenced back yard playing. We had a 4 foot tall above ground pool. The pool water was down lower as it was spring. I never thought what happened next would happen. I hear this noise, like odd crying sound, and I go back and she is standing in the pool water up to her neck. She had climbed the pool filter and fallen in. Water was cold too, not really super cold, more like 60 some degrees. She loved climbing onto everything. God had mercy that day. Never leave a kid unsupervised around any kind of pools.

 

[Patrick1966]

Wow.

Having a pool with small children is a risk.

 

[Scott Downey]

Wow.

Having a pool with small children is a risk.

Yes, I sold the pool that summer. Cats and birds also drowned in that pool. I figure cat was curious or thirsty and it fell in. Maybe cat was chasing after a bird and they both drowned.
I do think a fence around an inground pool is a good idea, but I have been to Florida, and lots of homes have backyard pools and just the yard fence for the lot. Also seen above ground pools with a deck around and maybe if the pool filter is under that deck, and a locked gate, younger kids cant climb in.

 

[Jay Ross]

Putting all of the "safety measures" in place does not stop a determined child from getting into trouble or dying.

It is the parents responsibility to teach their children the boundaries within which they can play safely. We should not rely on others to do just that.

We can tell a child that they should not put their hands onto a stove's hot plate, but usually it requires a child to learn from their mistakes to actually understand why their parents were giving them that warning.

My son had to learn the hard way and it cause permanent damage to him which he has had to live with for the rest of his life. However, his children were taught the lesson of the consequences of stepping outside of the safe boundaries.

Sadly, many parents advocate their responsibilities to other to teach their children and then blames those who accepted these responsibilities when their children deliberately or even "unintentionally" went outside of those boundaries.

Having children is a blessing but it also comes with lots of responsibilities that many parent do not accept.