4-year-old girl accidentally hangs herself with hairband. How does this happen???

We have to accept that not all accidents are preventable. There will always be the strange freak accident that will catch us astonished and shocked. I have to say this case seems particularly bizarre to me. Perhaps there needs to be some emphasis put on the difference between cartoons and reality. I would expect this to come from the parents but who would have thought such a thing would happen.

I feel strongly about this issue. Parents need to assume responsibility for their kids. This sounds to me like something that could've been avoided with proper attention payed by the parent's. I don't mean to criticize the parents at their time of sorrow but I feel there is much we can learn as a society from this case.

I hope the parents manage to pull themselves together after such a tragedy. 

Is this the first case of such kind? It doesn't really matter how she died, the point here is that we hear a lot about kids getting hurt imitating TV shows. Children especially young ones (4) still find it difficult to distinguish between TV and reality. Their judgment is so poor sometimes that we often are more then surprised by their actions. If a child can imitate  a cartoon character singing and have his parents encourage him then why not imitate a cartoon character hurting himself? Children learn a lot by themselves I am not sure what could have been done here, maybe some closer attention until the child reaches an older age. 

The article on the Paige Brown tragedy says that the grandmother was supervising the girl.  It seems the grandmother told her, "You must never do that."  Unfortunately, it's not surprising that the girl did this dangerous thing anyway.  I guess that the grandmother's attention wandered.  That doesn't make the grandmother a bad person -- just a normal, flawed person.  I feel sad for her and the rest of the family.