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No one can ALWAYS watch what they do. It's a nice dream,tho.

I would argue that...I'm a parent and a grand-parent, so I speak from
experience. Living in Florida, I read about every other week of another
toddler drowning in a swimming pool and often in the care of someone
other than the parent or when there is a gathering and the parents are
distracted.

My husband and I had three grandsons for an extended vacation when they
were quite small...2,3 and 5. We were sitting on the patio with the
children nearby. I went inside to check on dinner and probably wasn't
inside more than two or three minutes. In that time, the two year old
went out back to the seawall...I found him lying on his tummy, looking
into the water from the edge of the seawall, as we often did to watch
the critters. He could have fallen off a dock or wandered into the
street. Hubby wasn't accustomed to watching little ones or just not
cautious.

Two is old enough to open a door and go into the street or be taken, get
into a medicine cabinet or a purse to get medicines...only takes
moments. Grandparents, I think, might be less aware of hazards to
little ones because the hazards are the grandparents' "normal".