How could this happen
Today’s world has parents with so much on their plates. Going to work, keeping a job, and worrying if their home will be foreclosed. Now they have to wonder if the people keeping their kids will provide proper care for them.
In Little Rock, Arkansas, a childcare worker served windshield wiper fluid to the kids instead of Kool-Aid. Kool-Aid is bad enough with its high sugar content, but windshield wiper fluid is very harmful. It is made up of methanol which can “induce coma and cause blindness.”
How could this happen? Well, taking care of children is stressful and you have to split your attention in many ways. This does not mean you can’t develop ways to help make things easier. First, never drink or give something to someone without reading the label twice! Once when you take it from the shelf and again before you put it back. This simple step could have saved this from happening. Next, use your nose! There should have been the smell of artificial fruit flavor.
This was an accident. But when working with children whose bodies can’t take the toxin and survive unscathed, every step must be made to protect them.