A shocking bit of news hit my wife and myself yesterday. A 4 month old child she was providing day care for up until about 2 weeks ago just passed away.
Being the heartless bastard I am, first reaction (other than "man, that sucks") is "thank god it wasn't under my wife's watch". Don't get me wrong, this tragedy couldn't have happened to a sweeter, kinder family. The child in question was for all intents healthy and quite happy. Hell, he was even by my definition "cute", and I'm not fond of kids (explain why I have 4 + 1 on the way then?). So this is of course a complete shock.
But back to being under my wife's watch... long story short, my wife is 6 months pregnant, we have a toddler and 3 older kids running around to keep track of, and she watches another toddler part time. Basically all of this plus said 4-month old became a bit overwhelming for my wife who was feeling she didn't have enough time to devote to our kids at this point. She provided notice to both clients, and the 4-month old was the first to find new child care last week.
Of course, with what limited information we have, it does appear that this tragedy did indeed occur during day care hours. Again, first reaction is it could have happened just the same under my wife's care. But then again, my wife has to question whether or not the child would still be alive if she hadn't given up the job two weeks ago. Being an emotional sort of person (plus pregnancy hormones), obviously this is going to eat her up.
No, we don't know exactly what happened yesterday. All we know at this point is that a 4-month old is no longer in the world, and it happened during normal daytime hours. Nothing has been on the news, so at this point it doesn't appear to be negligence on the caregiver's part. But of course these things usually take a while to unfold anyway.
It sucks. Go hug your kids (or pets, or whatever).
Figured I'd share. Hope you guys all have a good day then.
Being the heartless bastard I am, first reaction (other than "man, that sucks") is "thank god it wasn't under my wife's watch". Don't get me wrong, this tragedy couldn't have happened to a sweeter, kinder family. The child in question was for all intents healthy and quite happy. Hell, he was even by my definition "cute", and I'm not fond of kids (explain why I have 4 + 1 on the way then?). So this is of course a complete shock.
But back to being under my wife's watch... long story short, my wife is 6 months pregnant, we have a toddler and 3 older kids running around to keep track of, and she watches another toddler part time. Basically all of this plus said 4-month old became a bit overwhelming for my wife who was feeling she didn't have enough time to devote to our kids at this point. She provided notice to both clients, and the 4-month old was the first to find new child care last week.
Of course, with what limited information we have, it does appear that this tragedy did indeed occur during day care hours. Again, first reaction is it could have happened just the same under my wife's care. But then again, my wife has to question whether or not the child would still be alive if she hadn't given up the job two weeks ago. Being an emotional sort of person (plus pregnancy hormones), obviously this is going to eat her up.
No, we don't know exactly what happened yesterday. All we know at this point is that a 4-month old is no longer in the world, and it happened during normal daytime hours. Nothing has been on the news, so at this point it doesn't appear to be negligence on the caregiver's part. But of course these things usually take a while to unfold anyway.
It sucks. Go hug your kids (or pets, or whatever).
Figured I'd share. Hope you guys all have a good day then.
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