I recently experienced a sobering example of the difficulties associated with such supervision practices. A friend and I decided to take our kids to H2Oasis (all six of them) - mistake #1. As we lounged on the deck chairs, Brielle who is in the water takes a shaky step and face plants . Of course as she is wearing a life jacket, I assume she is perfectly safe - mistake #2. Little did I realize that my flailing 1 year old could exerts enough force to prevent the head piece of the floatation device from flipping her to a safe back position. Lucky for me a nice stranger grabbed her before CPR became necessary.
In my attempt to make it up to her, and prove myself a good parent, I lift her to the top of a water slid. Brielle LOVES slides. Quickly I turned around to position myself at the bottom for a safe catch- mistake #3. Brielle steps backwards, falls down the concrete stairs, and once again lands face-down in the water. At this point a witness to the near fatal drownings asks me if I would like medial intervention.
Lucky for me everyone survived and I learned an important lesson in parenting. We now employ the triple floaty method of safety when entering water.
Bring On the Warts.
3 comments:
As I read this I just kept thinking, "That Brielle is gonna be one tough cookie by the time she hits pre-school!"
Love it Kris, thanks for the chuckle. I imagine we moms all have a few warts by the time our children are grown. I like to think it'll give my face character, what do ya think? ;-)
Oh my gosh! Seriously, I've had similar moments. Usually they happen when really bored people are watching because let's face it, this is entertaining... then there's always a "You've got your hands full" comment somewhere in there.
I LOVE your blog Kristi! I need to go get caught up on what you've been doing these days.
Only I know the truth...you did it on purpose so you could have a cool blog story. You should be ashamed of yourself. Just kidding. You are hilarious! Let's have more death defying moments to write about.
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