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Child Killed By Falling Mirror At Wal-Mart
The Indy Channel ^ | 7-23-2006

Posted on 07/24/2006 6:12:21 AM PDT by Samwise

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To: ShandaLear
OMG, you are being utterly ridiculous.

He should have been in a cart. Stores are NOT playgrounds.

361 posted on 07/24/2006 11:12:34 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
You didn't read the rest of what I said. making the kid be right next to you ALL the time is smothering and hovering.

My kids are well behaved, or so I'm told. They're also very self-suffiecient for 8 and 9 year olds. Time will tell whether this approach is a mistake.

362 posted on 07/24/2006 11:14:17 AM PDT by Warren_Piece (Smart is easy. Good is hard.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

The mirror should have been secured.


363 posted on 07/24/2006 11:15:03 AM PDT by ShandaLear (Gringos Unite!!!)
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To: Warren_Piece
making the kid be right next to you ALL the time is smothering and hovering.

I need to quit using that phrase. makes me want to go to waffle house!

364 posted on 07/24/2006 11:16:37 AM PDT by Warren_Piece (Smart is easy. Good is hard.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

But what was he doing?

Playing can be anything from climbing walls to quietly singing a motion song.

Again, there isn't enough in this story to past ugly judgement on the mother or damn the child as bad.


365 posted on 07/24/2006 11:16:57 AM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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To: Warren_Piece

Smother fried steak and taters.


366 posted on 07/24/2006 11:17:40 AM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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To: linn37
A mother loses her child in a freak accident and all you can do is think poorly of her.

The child should have been in a cart. They are there for the purpose of keeping a child close and restraining them. That was the original idea by freepers on the first page. This is way out of hand. A child died. That's heartbreaking. It's as tragic as the little one that pulled a TV over on themselves and died. I've always heard "an ounce of prevention".......

367 posted on 07/24/2006 11:19:14 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: ShandaLear
The mirror should have been secured.

Why is that simple piece of information so unfathomable to some?

368 posted on 07/24/2006 11:20:25 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Children also fall out of carts. There is no place that's 100% safe.


369 posted on 07/24/2006 11:20:35 AM PDT by ShandaLear (Gringos Unite!!!)
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To: Skooz

I am at a loss on that one, too.


370 posted on 07/24/2006 11:21:00 AM PDT by ShandaLear (Gringos Unite!!!)
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To: Warren_Piece
That could make for some intersting shopping. Preperation H instead of toothpaste,

Honey! Where do you shop?! It's not near the toothpaste.

Again, in my post 70: I'm assuming that most parents are smart enough to control their kids. When mine got too big for the carts, they were either in the basket or holding the pocket of my jeans. The MINUTE they let go I knew it and they were back by my side where they belonged. As they got older, when Hubby was along, he'd say, "where do your hands belong?". My boys put their hands in their pockets and stayed beside us.

What I did worked.

371 posted on 07/24/2006 11:22:11 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: Skooz

Because it requires not feeling superior?


372 posted on 07/24/2006 11:22:33 AM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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To: DJ MacWoW
The post you're quoting does not say the child was out of control. It says he was not in his mothers control. You can't control what you aren't looking at.

You seem to read quite a bit into the few words in the article. It is quite possible to see something and hear it at the same time. And you are splitting hairs.

373 posted on 07/24/2006 11:24:04 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: DJ MacWoW

You were lucky, that's all.


374 posted on 07/24/2006 11:24:11 AM PDT by ShandaLear (Gringos Unite!!!)
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To: Badray; doc30
#49: "If the kid was playing on the mirror, the parents should reimburse Wal Mart for the loss of the mirror. "

#66: Yes, my comment was callous and it was meant to be. But it also should bring home the point that parents need to watch their kids, assuming, of course, that the kid was playing with, or on, the mirror. Sadly, some parents will not control, or monitor, their children's actions, and will quickly blame others when things go wrong. I sincerely do hope that is no the case here, but if it is, these parents need to take responsibility and not try to hit the lawsuit lottery.

Both posts were by doc30.

375 posted on 07/24/2006 11:24:30 AM PDT by Warren_Piece (Smart is easy. Good is hard.)
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To: Badray
You are getting beat up over the distance between mom and the child. I have to agree with you.

Thank you. I won't back down despite all the rhetoric.

OTOH, five feet (or even 3) is far for a 3 year old when your view is obstructed in a crowded and/or cluttered uncontrolled environment.

I never trusted my kids so I kept them close. My house was "child-proof" and a store is not.

376 posted on 07/24/2006 11:24:45 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: najida

Bingo.


377 posted on 07/24/2006 11:25:04 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: DJ MacWoW

>>There was a time when kids stayed by their parents and were quiet in stores. It was called obedience. I remember that time.

And we didn’t have car seats, seatbelt laws and spanking a child in a public place wouldn’t land you in jail. This did not happen then, it happened now. We have been systematically removing discipline from child rearing since a guy named Spock wrote a book. (He later, before his death, admitted he had no idea what he was writing about)


378 posted on 07/24/2006 11:25:38 AM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: DelphiUser
Kidnapping was a worry for people with money then.

Tell that to O. Henry:

"Two Desperate Men,

Gentlemen: I received your letter to-day by post, in regard to the ransom you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands, and I hereby make you a counter-proposition, which I am inclined to believe you will accept. You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands. You had better come at night, for the neighbours believe he is lost, and I couldn't be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back.

Very respectfully,"

379 posted on 07/24/2006 11:26:03 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: new cruelty

Who knows.


380 posted on 07/24/2006 11:26:09 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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