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I must be a "hover parent": I have never left my children unattended. Never. I remember a lady here in Virginia who left her kids upstairs on their own and they both filled the tub and then drowned.

So these hard of hearing parents never heard of installing a wall anchor to the dresser(s)to keep them from falling over?

[livius]

People don’t think about it, for some reason. Most new dressers actually come with a strap and a bolt to hold them onto the wall so this won’t happen. But I think a lot of parents don’t realize the possibility that this might happen.

I remember also that adults used to get killed by falling file cabinets in offices - they’d pull out the top drawers and it would over-balance the 800 lb. file cabinet. It just takes a second. Now in offices these cabinets are either built in or bolted in, but I think maybe more work needs to be done on getting in touch with the consumer market for drawers and files, particularly when there are small children in the house.

[wardaddy]

You sleep in the same room with them till what age?

Parents under 45 are well just different

I’m not hover at all

My wife is a little

I guard them but let them be boys or girls

[wardaddy]

I’m not sure expecting two year olds not to pull over dressers is unreasonable

Lucky though it was that cheap toysrus or Walmart pressed stuff stuff

If it had been Bellini it coulda been bad

I’ve got five

My first was a two pound preemie that woke up every 45 minutes till doc gave us dope for her at 5 months so she slept in a SIDS canoodle with us

The rest were in Crib 15 feet down the wood floor hallway next to us from after two weeks home from birth

I would have heard it but some folks don’t wake up easy

They obviously are attentive folks cause they kept video in there they could see I guess while they watched tv or made the beast with two backs

Don’t be too hard on them

Things sometimes happen despite best efforts

[kara37]

I have never left my children unattended. Never.
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Did you sleep in the same room as your kids? It looks like it was either bedtime or nap time.
I know I had to constantly keep telling my kids to get back in bed when they were little. I could easily see how something like that could have happened.
However, I can’t imagine that I would not have heard it.