According to a recent news story, an amazingly quick-thinking 4-year-old was able to get her injured 2-year-old sister out of her carseat after a crash killed their mother. The older child sheltered herself and her sister under a blanket for six hours in fourty degree rain. The girls were noticed and rescued by a passing car.
My 3-year-old doesn't even like to put his own sock on by himself.
Hopefully these girls are able to recover not only physically, but emotionally from what they endured.
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Wow. Poor babies. :(
ReplyDeleteI totally think that whether or not a 4yo would think to do that is a personality-type thing. Some people are "take charge" and spring to life in an emergency. Others fall apart/shut down in an emergency. That's just as true of young children as grownups.
But what an awful experience to have to live through.