As a parent or otherwise but I will go first.
I had totally forgotten this had happened, until I read a newspaper article this week regarding an 8 year old girl who tragically died falling from a balcony https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0l473kvkvo.amp
It reminded me of a scenario which was very similar, when DC1 was 2 years old we were on holiday. DH left our hotel apartment with DC1. I needed to finish getting ready, DC1 was on the balcony happily playing with toys and I did a risk assessment, the balcony was a very high glass patrician. I must have left for no longer than 2 min to grab some things from bedroom next to living room (where balcony was) and when I returned he had managed to push a chair on the other side of balcony right up against the glass patrician, and was mid climbing onto it. My heart jumped and it took me weeks to really process it/get over it, that had I have spent 30 seconds longer doing anything he would have been at a height which could have been fatal.
what is your scariest moment as a parent?
As for otherwise not a parent I have another story from my 20s… i also blocked it out undeliberately and remembered it years later and couldn’t believe how different life could have turned out.
AIBU because I cannot find a ‘random’ or ‘general discussion’ topic.