Tour of My Existence

I just watched news on TV3 moments ago. There was this news that really made me think about taking care of a child. It's about a 3 months old child, who died because of suffocating milk. I know, its kind of ridiculous, but it happened.

In my opinion, this should not happened. We all know that a child is fragile. They could easily hurt. Even a fever could lead to death. So, why it happened? It happened because human is easily careless. We, as human, by default, always make mistakes. In this case, the child died because the babysitter (from the child-care center), didn't realize that the child was choking, while she was cooking in the kitchen. After a while, they had sent the child to the hospital, just to realize that she was dead a long time ago.


Then, this had became an issue. People started pointing their fingers to the child-care center. Then, the authorities came in, saying that "According to the law, a babysitter should not babysit more than two or three babies at a time." This had made me thinking, if you notice, usually we takes action after it had happened. Why didn't we  prevent it from happening in the first place? Isn't it we always say that "Preventive action is much better than a cure."? Why didn't we do it? The answer is simple. We are lethargic. In other words, we are lazy and ignorant.

However, we can't 100% blame the agency. The parent must also be sensitive. Sensitive in this case, is to investigate the capability of the babysitter to take care of the child. If you know that, the babysitter had already taken care of 5 babies at a time, why should you send your child to her. Of course, and for sure, she will not be able to look after all of them. So, why should you send your baby to her. Find someone else instead, who is capable to babysit your child.

I know, it is hard to find a babysitter. Even though we have a lot of child-care centers, not all of them are capable to babysit your baby to your likings, or to your specifications (I know some of us are very details in child-care preferences.) But this should not be an issue, the important thing here is the safety of the child. Their life is a number one priority. In this case, I believe, both parents are working. So, that's why they sent their baby to the child-care center.

Don't lose sight of your own child [SOURCE]

The solution to this problem should be easy. They could have send the baby to her grandparents, if they are still alive. Or perhaps, someone who are very close to them. Perhaps, their relatives. Someone that they could trust. Maybe the reason why they didn't do that because(this is just my speculation) they didn't want to cause trouble to others in taking care of their baby or perhaps they doesn't want their baby to get too close to others in the earlier process of growing up. Believe it or not, children is easily attach to someone who are very close to them when they were kids. I'm sure some of us have this kind of thinking in their mind. In the end, the last resort is to send the child to a child-care center, who is unable to take care of their child, where it leads to death of a pure and innocent child.