TRAGEDY: Be careful to judge

It's so nice for us to sit in our cozy homes with our feet up, a cup of coffee or tea and pour over the events in our local paper. Take a deep breath and be thankful our family is healthy and intact. To read of a mishap that involves the death of a child and the fault (mistake) is left on the heart of the parent should draw compassion from the heart not self-righteous judgment. 

Keep your self-important opinion to politics or some other broader spectrum and your slicing tongue to your own family members if you have any that will listen to you. This man and his family need more love and understanding from this community right now not you. Let's hope you don't find yourself in an "accident" and if so not in the public eye. One second in a life can change everything.

TAMI SIMPSON

Coeur d'Alene