“There but for the grace of God go I.”
Is there anything a mother dreads more than waking to a knock at the door from police? Probably only the idea that you might wake up from a nap to find your house empty and the children gone.
There are reports today that two young children, 2 years old and 18 months, were found alone at a local park in regional Victoria playing in nothing more than their nappies yesterday.
It was 15 degrees yesterday in Geelong, where the family lives.
After the children were dressed by locals who found the children and collected by local police, their mother was found at home.
She had been asleep on the couch and the children let themselves out of home to go for a play at the park.
My first thought when I read this story, “that poor mum.” I can only imagine the sharp combination of guilt and relief she might be feeling right now. My second though, “there but for the grace of God go I.”
Kids are tiring. I’m tired. I’ve been tired since my first pregnancy. I’ve been tired for nearly five years.
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While I have nothing but praise for this article and how it continues to exemplify the ongoing struggle that mothers have in this blasted first world economy that we live in, I think that the mother of the toddlers who fell asleep before running off to the park should INVEST IN A DOOR LOCK
Its happened to me. We were moving house, son was asleep in his cot, with the bedroom door shut, I fell asleep. Son escaped from his cot, opened the door, and walked thru the open back door, thru the back gate into the street... Scary scary scary. It happens. Im so over perfect perfect parents judging to make themselves feel superior.