Parents, please hold your children’s hands

As soon as I turned on my phone this morning, I received a sad message: the father failed to hold the child, and the brother and sister fell to their deaths. As a parent, it is inevitable to feel sad when hearing such news. The lives of two young children are fleeting, and the happiness of several families disappears in an instant. The media reported that the situation was as follows: At the time of the incident, the father was holding two children and looking down from the fourth floor. One of the children accidentally fell. When the father tried to pull the fallen child, the other child also fell. While grieving for this family, as parents, in addition to grieving, we should also reflect on our daily behaviors and always remember: safety comes first when raising children. Since I had a child, I have become very timid. I will never let my child leave my sight when I go out. But even so, I still have several frightening experiences. Once, I took my child to Vientiane City and after playing around, she and I were very tired. I anxiously took my daughter home, but she was unwilling to leave, and the two of them had a conflict. My daughter lost her temper, shook off my hand, and got off the elevator by herself. In the past, she got up and down the elevator by herself. Every time I warned her not to move around and to stand firm and hold her firmly, she did better. Only this time, she got angry with me and I was so angry that I didn\’t catch up with her and let her go ahead. She did not stand still on the escalator, but the escalator moved. She also walked down, and she went down very fast. As she went down, she looked back at me. At this time, an accident happened. She tripped on the escalator, fell on the elevator, and rolled down. I immediately panicked and rushed down. At this time, a staff member next to me helped her up before me. Watching me go down, the staff said to me: \”Check to see if anything is okay, and make sure to hold the child in place.\” Fortunately, when she fell down, the elevator was already almost downstairs, and she was not injured in any way. Even so, I still have lingering fears. What if I fall? From now on, I will never dare to let her go up or down the elevator alone. Even if she insists, I will follow her closely. Escalators in shopping malls generally have warning signs. The elderly and children need to be accompanied by adult family members and cannot run around. This is common sense. But we often ignore it and think that others are fine, so how can an accident happen to us, but you never know which one will come first, the accident or tomorrow. Another time, while playing in a mall, my daughter needed to go to the bathroom, and I happened to go too. Before she went in, I told her that she must wait for me in the bathroom after using the bathroom and not go outside. She agreed well. When I came out, I didn\’t find her. I looked for a place to wash my hands again, but there was still no place. I was confused. I looked around in a panic, but there was no sign of her. When I rushed back to the playroom where she had just played, I found her there. I yelled at her, \”Why didn\’t you wait for me?\” She was frightened by my tone and expression, but she insisted, \”I knew you would come to me.\” I suppressed my anger and said to her seriously: \”Do you know how worried Mom is that she can\’t find you? You can\’t run away secretly in the future. You must wait for Mom.\” She also nodded seriously, even so , I will still insist on holding her when I go out in the future.hands, not daring to let her leave my sight for a moment. I left her alone at home and went out to buy groceries for about ten minutes, which I only dared to do when she was almost five years old. We had many discussions before, and I told her that she should not go anywhere else except watching cartoons. I knew she could do this, because once she watched cartoons, she would not care about anything else. With this guarantee, I dare to go out. Before going out, I told her that my mother had the key and she should not open it no matter who knocked on the door. She asked: \”What if it\’s dad?\” I said: \”Dad also has the key, and he can\’t open the door even if he knocks.\” She agreed. I was still worried, so I deliberately opened the door without a key before entering. Instead, I knocked on the door, and she opened it for me. I asked, doesn’t it mean that no one can open it by knocking? She said she knew it was her mother coming back. I said it wouldn’t work even if my mother came back, and no one could knock on it and open it. I tried this over and over again several times, but I didn\’t feel relieved until she didn\’t answer the door when I came back. There are many other little things like this. Every time she returns to her hometown, we tell her grandparents not to let her go out alone, to watch the vehicles when going out, and to hold her hand… I am very relieved about her in other aspects, only I am not sure about her safety, and I am always afraid that one day I will accidentally lose her, so when she is unable to protect herself, we must fulfill our responsibilities. There are many accidents, and if parents can take good care of their children, accidents can be avoided. Back then, when the little Yueyue incident caused a sensation and everyone unanimously condemned the passers-by, if her parents had been around, she would not have been hit by a car and the accident would not have happened. Last year, a mother took her child swimming. The mother came up and was playing with her mobile phone next to her. The child drowned right behind the mother. This was also avoidable. Children\’s safety is a big deal. As a parent, you must take good care of your children. Don\’t just have fun for a while, or be busy with your own things and neglect your children\’s safety. You should always keep this string in your mind, and be sure to hold your child\’s hand when you go out.