Mum Shares Powerful Post After Her Son Dies in Car Accident

A grieving mother has shared a letter of advice to other parents after her four-year-old son died in a car accident — and has now gone viral.

Mum Ashley Grimm admitted it — she has gone through every mum’s worst nightmare. On June 2nd, her precious four-year-old son, Titus, died in a car accident, but what’s worse, she was there — she was driving the car.

Ms Grimm posted on Facebook her lengthy but powerful letter of advice to all mothers recounting the events that happened the day she lost her son and the lessons that came with it.

On that fateful day, Ms Grimm was driving her Ford Econoline van with Titus and his four siblings when it left the road, flipped over and landed on its roof on a busy American highway.

Little Titus was thrown from the vehicle and died immediately.

Ms Grimm wrote about how she always struggled to get her boy to keep his seat-belt on.

“My son was notorious for doing everything he could to unbuckle in the car (“The Flash doesn’t wear a seatbelt, and I’m the Flash, mama”)…

“We tried five point harness seats, boosters, I believe even zip ties at one point (probably not safe either) but he always viewed it as a superhero challenge. He was a superhero because he always succeeded,” she said, adding that she would pull over three or four times in every trip to buckle her son again.

She then went on to tell how a large rock that rolled into their lane was the cause of it all, how she rescued her five children in the van, but Titus can no longer be saved. She also described the heart-ache of burying her child.

“I have held my dead sons body in the middle of a highway while I rocked him and screamed – no – ordered God to bring him back.

“I have chosen a funeral plot for my four year old boy as I contemplated jumping from the cliff the cemetery overlooks just so I could be where he is.

“I have purchased a 200 dollars superhero outfit for my son to wear as he decomposes in the earth.

“I have kissed a corpse over and over and wept as I traced over every feature of his ice cold face and held his still dimpled, but lifeless hands.

“I have slept in a cemetery just to try and take one more nap with him. I talk to the dirt. To the ground where he lies with his lovey blanket and his avengers outfit,” she said.

Through all these, Ms Grimm then urged other parents to treasure every moment with their child.

“Watch how your children eat…Learn to pretend. Get into their world…Embrace their beautiful, fleeting imagination…Take every hug and kiss they bring you…Stop and look at the bugs, the rocks, the sticks, the sunset. Slow down mama, slow down.

“Tell them you love them. But look in their eyes and say it like you mean it. Tell them they can do anything – anything they set their mind to,” she said.

Her post has now been shared more than 380,000 times.

Source: Themorningbulletin.com.au