Who's Watching?

There have been many newspaper articles each summer about a child that has drowned in a pool. Each one is heartbreaking. Accidents happen and most of the time they are no one's fault. Sometimes they happen due to carelessness. Yesterday at my town pool my friends watched an incident and they were nice enough to get involved. They were watching a beautiful 3 year old girl asking her mother to take her into the baby pool. The mother was too busy talking to her friend to care about her baby. After a few minutes of being ignored, the baby walked into the adult pool and walked down the steps. The mother then walked to the baby pool and stood there talking to her friend oblivious to the fact that her baby was not in that pool. My friends surrounded the baby in the adult pool and asked her how old she was. She said three. They asked her where her mother was and she said her mother was at the baby pool. As my friends were watching the little girl, one of them walked to the baby pool and went up to the mother and informed her that her three year old was alone in the adult pool. The mother seemed annoyed that she was being told this. It took about 5 minutes until she walked over to the big pool to watch her own child. When she got there she seemed irritated that we had interfered. How sad for this child.