ABOUT THE MINA POST

For those of you who read the incident about my daughter and the swimming pool and who felt compelled to write comments about what a bad parent I am (you can read them under the MINA post comment section), no, my daughter was not left alone at the pool. I was right next to her. This pool had one of these two foot wide steps which is maybe a foot deep, then it goes into the deep part from there. My daughter was squatting down, slapping at the water, and when she slipped and pitched forward I was right next to her and my hand almost had the back of her bathing suit but it was so quick it was just an inch or two beyond my reach. The way she fell brought her straight over that foot deep step and into the deep part. I was in the pool immediately. I wasn't off at a bar having a beer. I wasn't distracted by women. I was right there. Now if that still makes me a bad father so be it, but I want the record set straight on this one because my children are the most important things in the world to me.