These babies are barely two years old, an age at which exploration is the "job" of the little ones. They are eager to discover the world around them and are not yet aware of the dangers they face, so it is very important to take all necessary security measures at home.
The video you will see below is the complete sequence of two distressing minutes in which Bowdy Shoff, a two-year-old baby saves his twin brother, Brock, from being crushed by a chest of drawers.
The images were taken by the surveillance cameras of the children's room at a time when the little ones they came up with "climbing" the furniture. When the drawers are arranged in the form of a ladder, children climb and, not being anchored to the wall, the weight causes it to tip over getting one of them trapped under.
Bowdy climbed the front of the chest of drawers and when he fell he was lucky not to get caught, but his twin Brock was lying under a corner. Fortunately, there didn't seem to be too much weight on the furniture (the drawers look empty) and the baby was not damaged by being crushed.
Bowdy surrounds the furniture looking for a way to help his brother. He doesn't know very well what to do. He pushes it, tries to lift it, but he doesn't get it, until he pushes it again while Brock manages to rotate on himself and finally free himself. Both children are well.
It is curious that no adult appears to help them, but according to Daily Mail, the mother was on the top floor and did not hear the noise of the chest of drawers when she fell or the child's crying.
Ricky Shoff, the father of the twins, hesitated to share the video, but finally decided to post it on his Facebook profile to warn other parents about the danger of furniture for children when they are not well anchored to the wall. Make sure they are stable and well held if you have small children at home.
It could have been a tragedy
We always think that accidents happen to others, that they won't touch us, but they happen. The danger can be anywhere, and it is not about putting our children in a protection bubble, but it is our responsibility as parents to do everything possible to prevent them.
In the United States, every year more than 25 thousand children suffer injuries due to furniture falls. Of the wounded, a child dies every two weeks for injuries caused by the fall of the furniture itself or by objects that were on top of them such as televisions, devices, etc. A few days ago, Ikea paid 48 million euros to the families of three children who were crushed by their comfortable MALM
Video Kayli Shoff (Youtube)
Via | Daily Mail
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