“Where was dad? At home, playing League of Legends”: Mom furious after discovering her 3-year-old son was running naked around a major highway

Parents are always concerned about the safety of their children. Well, most of them. However, it’s easy to become complacent in your own home, where you often feel your children are safest.

Unfortunately, as one mother recently learned, it only takes a moment of distraction for a child to find themselves in a potentially dangerous situation. A concerned woman recently took to Reddit to share a disturbing experience with her 3-year-old son. According to His post On’True of my chest‘, the child managed to escape from the family’s home in Florida and was later found naked near a busy road.

Even more troubling, he left the little one (and her sister) with their father, who was busy playing computer games while “finding” her.

This man’s obsession with video games is putting his children at risk.

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And can also force his wife to file for divorce.

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Between the ages of 1 and 3, toddlers are moving away from childhood in search of new adventures. Seeking more independence, they are learning to talk, walk and run, and for many this age, “outside” and “play” are becoming common requests.

Exploring the inside and outside world is important for their emotional, social and physical development. It’s one thing to see a cat through the window, but another to hear its screeching and feel its fur, maybe even play with it.

But while parents have to step back a bit to give their kids some freedom, they still need to supervise the little ones. Young children cannot accurately assess danger and distinguish safe situations from threatening situations.

Maybe the man the author of this post is married to really loves his children, but judging by the woman’s confession, it seems he is not fit to be a father.

According to neuropsychiatrist Dr. Esmina Evdebegovic and psychotherapist Dr. Maja Burkec, child neglect can occur for a number of reasons. They said that social isolation, negative parental experiences in childhood, lack of parental knowledge and skills, use of psychoactive substances, criminal activity, and gambling problems are some of the risk factors.

While we don’t know why a man is venturing into the virtual world to the point where he puts his children at risk, it could lead to huge problems. Avdibegović and Brkić note that “the consequences of neglect are multiple and long-term.” “The period from birth to adulthood is characterized by progressive physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development … the child’s growth and development. [are] Following changes in brain maturation. During the first years of life, important brain development occurs that is sequential and hierarchical, regulating the development of brain functions from the least to the most complex. The brain develops through the organization and creation of pathways that connect different parts of the brain and through differentiation between functions. Building these pathways is a feature of brain development that is empirically highly sensitive.”

How all this will be shaped depends on the environment in which the child is growing up and the interactions within it.

“Children [who] “Experienced neglect often involves underdeveloped parts of the brain responsible for cognition and emotion,” Avdibegović and Brkić explained. “It [also] The result is overdevelopment of the parts of the brain responsible for survival that lead to anxiety, impulsiveness, lack of affect regulation, and hyperactivity.”

Compared to their peers, neglected children are typically more withdrawn, apathetic, less involved in their social and physical environment, more helpless under stress, and have significant developmental delays. Show delay. It is believed that these children internalize the message of their own worthlessness and assume that they will not be able to make friends, succeed in school, or get attention.

Parenting is hard and scary. Every decision of mother and father can go wrong. But that doesn’t excuse them for not trying.

As the post went viral, people had a lot to say about the ordeal and the original poster (OP) shared some more insights into her family life.