Hello… I am Tina, Thomas' mother. I just wanted to be clear that Thomas was riding his bike supervised by the woman who is like a second mother to him and all of my children. For your information, she was traumatized and still is. (Can you for a moment try to imagine what that could feel like?) She was right there and she loves my children like her own. I do not leave my children unattended. I do not blame anyone in this…it was an accident!!! And thankfully, the 'supervisor' knew best to let the passers-by who were miraculously doctors do what they knew how to do. Please with all due respect, there is no need for you to make statements against me as though I am a negligent mother. I say this because you have no idea what a mother goes through who looses a child and so your statement is that much more hurtful. The pain, the trauma, the suffering… morning, day and night, the agony… 7 years later… and I still feel the ache and pain everyday of loosing my daughter Meah… Do you know what it is to hold your dead child in your arms…I remember it every day… through out my day!!! The tone of your final sentence perhaps aimed at suggesting that it was my fault…that somehow a mother who has already lost one child should be more careful as though I should have learned my lesson the first time. I say this with kindness, please think before you make such statements… they are hurtful and I am not sure why the need to find blame when the story has so much more that is precious and miraculous to put focus on. Can you imagine what kind of children I'd have if I never went to work, never went out… never left the house… lived my life with fear and put my fear of loss on everything they did? Don't ride a bike… don't play...don't do this… don't do that..… seriously???? Perhaps your intentions were to you harmless… you simply felt the anger that this child had to go through this and so you look to blame someone. I understand… but don't you think as a mother I wished everything was different? I say with aching heart… I have learned that life happens… no matter how hard you try to ensure nothing ever happens to your children… you cannot prevent everything and you walk with faith and pray every day for the safety of your children… but our lives are not in our hands… angels were with my child, this I know. Please do not make statements that come from a place of judgement if you do not know me, my family or if you were not actually there to see what the 'supervisor' had to cope with… I am glad she was there to hold my other two children who thought their brother had died. I am glad she got on the phone to call me as fast as she did so that I could be there literally minutes after it all happened. The article focused on the miracle of this… do we always have to search for the negatives or do we always need to place blame?Why not praise God and find the beauty... the blessing… and rejoice instead. God is good and I am thankful beyond measure!!!
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Hello… I am Tina, Thomas' mother. I just wanted to be clear that Thomas was riding his bike supervised by the woman who is like a second mother to him and all of my children. For your information, she was traumatized and still is. (Can you for a moment try to imagine what that could feel like?) She was right there and she loves my children like her own. I do not leave my children unattended. I do not blame anyone in this…it was an accident!!! And thankfully, the 'supervisor' knew best to let the passers-by who were miraculously doctors do what they knew how to do. Please with all due respect, there is no need for you to make statements against me as though I am a negligent mother. I say this because you have no idea what a mother goes through who looses a child and so your statement is that much more hurtful. The pain, the trauma, the suffering… morning, day and night, the agony… 7 years later… and I still feel the ache and pain everyday of loosing my daughter Meah… Do you know what it is to hold your dead child in your arms…I remember it every day… through out my day!!! The tone of your final sentence perhaps aimed at suggesting that it was my fault…that somehow a mother who has already lost one child should be more careful as though I should have learned my lesson the first time. I say this with kindness, please think before you make such statements… they are hurtful and I am not sure why the need to find blame when the story has so much more that is precious and miraculous to put focus on. Can you imagine what kind of children I'd have if I never went to work, never went out… never left the house… lived my life with fear and put my fear of loss on everything they did? Don't ride a bike… don't play...don't do this… don't do that..… seriously???? Perhaps your intentions were to you harmless… you simply felt the anger that this child had to go through this and so you look to blame someone. I understand… but don't you think as a mother I wished everything was different? I say with aching heart… I have learned that life happens… no matter how hard you try to ensure nothing ever happens to your children… you cannot prevent everything and you walk with faith and pray every day for the safety of your children… but our lives are not in our hands… angels were with my child, this I know. Please do not make statements that come from a place of judgement if you do not know me, my family or if you were not actually there to see what the 'supervisor' had to cope with… I am glad she was there to hold my other two children who thought their brother had died. I am glad she got on the phone to call me as fast as she did so that I could be there literally minutes after it all happened. The article focused on the miracle of this… do we always have to search for the negatives or do we always need to place blame?Why not praise God and find the beauty... the blessing… and rejoice instead. God is good and I am thankful beyond measure!!!
On Miracle as boy survives being run over by SUV
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