Who the F___ lets a three year old out of their sight, the fear those poor children must of felt at the end...   

R.I.P

 

1 hour ago, whaleboneman said:

Instead of instilling fear - take him into a place like that and teach him to swim.

 they know how to swimming  they have 11 and 9

On 4/25/2021 at 2:33 AM, impulse said:

 

As kids, we'd disappear in  the morning, only showing up at lunch and dinner.  Nobody supervised us.  We chased butterflies, played baseball, tag and army, climbed trees and did what kids do.   And that was the entire neighborhood.

 

And we learned to find friends, form relationships, pick up teams, negotiate trades and resolve conflicts on our own.  We had 2 rules.  No crossing the freeway and no swimming in Butterfield Creek.  (Okay- 3.  No throwing apples at passing cars)

Tragic as it is that these kids drowned, I don't blame the adults for just letting them be kids.

 

Teaching kids to swim is a double edge sword.  On one hand, it can save their lives.  But on the other, it emboldens them to the water.  My guess is that the kids went in and couldn't get back out because of the slippery nature of the banks on a construction project.

There used to be a lot of abandoned rock quarries in the Boston (US) area when I was younger. They were mostly full with very deep water and It was a right of passage in many of the nearby towns for boys to dive from high rock outcroppings into them.  Every year, a few kids would drown and there would be an outcry but despite fences being erected, kids would still get in.

Finally, when Boston had it's "Big Dig", putting a roadway under the city, the excavated dirt was used to fill many of the old quarries. One is now a golf course.