Viral video of toddler trapped under dresser has many asking: Where were the parents?

I sat there in suspended fright as the dresser toppled over, and the two little boys helplessly crashed to the floor.

In the full video, you see the twin boys climb the dresser in their room and almost instantly send it tumbling to the ground. Where are the parents?

One of the boys is pinned and appears to yell, from either pain or fear. Probably both. Where are the parents?

His brother somehow lands safely and is able to stand up. OMG, where are the parents!?

Realizing his brother is in trouble, the second toddler springs into action. He surveys the situation. He tries a couple different things. He then somehow manages to push the dresser off his brother.

All of that in about two minutes. And seriously. Where. Are. The. Parents.

This gut-wrenching video is the latest shining example of a few things as they relate to parenting.

It’s scary. Just about anything can happen at any moment, thanks, in part, to life’s unforgiving randomness.

Kids are fearless. These two little guys decided to climb up a dresser without any thought of all the bad things that can happen. It’s why kids can be so much fun and infuriating to be around.

Technology is everywhere nowadays. We only have this video to watch because it’s now possible and fairly inexpensive to have video surveillance of your house.

Parenting is one large court of judgement, where Internet strangers are presiding. If you have a video where twins escape a potentially deadly situation, it becomes viral sensations in a matter of days, and we have parents who are being brutally judge by the rest of us. Including me, at first.

Two minutes go by in the full video without a parent showing up. The hero child walks around the room without thinking to go get help.

A little research will tell you this all happened at about 8:30 a.m., and one of the parents was apparently asleep, according to CNN.

These are all incriminating factors for anybody looking to convict these people of being bad parents. I mean, it’s an open-and-shut case. Right?

I thought so while watching.

Then I moved on from judging this family to looking at my own actions and my own family. Do we have the dresser and TVs secured? Are we constantly monitoring what our son is doing in his room, where we do have a camera set up?

Worse yet, would he know to find us or call out of help if he was in some kind of trouble? What about you, judge-y parent jury?

Can you see a way where it would be your children in this video, and you being the parent who had to watch it in a state of pure terror?

Because I sure can.

So, maybe I’ll go watch the video again. This time, I’ll just be thankful that this little boy has the presence of mind and burst of strength needed to push a dresser off his brother.

Maybe I’ll just be happy that everybody is safe and remember that anybody with children in their lives is one savage moment away from being the family in the video.