I think the risk has decreased significantly since then. But the news has become worse, there are fewer kids and kids can be supervised continuously and parents have less experience. Even a second child makes you much more relaxed about real dangers.
Haha, yeah I really didn’t intend it to mean being relaxed because of having kids to spare but because of a more realistic expectation of what kids at each age are capable of or not.
On the other hand, having multiple kids must create some subconscious ease of mind in that regard. That became most clear to me in those moments when there was some real or imagined risk of losing them all at once e.g. when they were on a plane without me.
I think the risk has decreased significantly since then. But the news has become worse, there are fewer kids and kids can be supervised continuously and parents have less experience. Even a second child makes you much more relaxed about real dangers.
Yeah, having redundancy makes one much more comfortable. (I know that’s not what you meant, but it struck me funny.)
Haha, yeah I really didn’t intend it to mean being relaxed because of having kids to spare but because of a more realistic expectation of what kids at each age are capable of or not.
On the other hand, having multiple kids must create some subconscious ease of mind in that regard. That became most clear to me in those moments when there was some real or imagined risk of losing them all at once e.g. when they were on a plane without me.