Patrick Air Force Military Mom under fire for tweet after son's death

I want to be angry with this story, but I can't. No one can ever figure out how someone will react to shock, especially after losing your own child. Maybe she was feeling a need to connect and judging by the numbers of her followers, she must have been very good at it, felt at home doing it and it may have seemed natural to her.

I went the other way when I was feeling grief. For me it was when my Mom died and when my brother died. I did a quick note on the blog before heading off to the airport. Yet when my dog Brandon was dying and I faced the fact he'd have to be put down, I did a huge post the day before. It doesn't mean I loved my Mom or my brother less, it was just different circumstances. I didn't need to share online. I needed to share with the rest of my family back home in Massachusetts. When it was my dog, yet another member of my family, I needed to share what I was going thru as the clock was ticking away and his life was ending. No one responds the same way, so while our knee jerk reaction may be to blame this Mom, we have no way of knowing for sure exactly how we'd respond.

Florida mom under fire for tweet after son's death

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother is being criticized by bloggers and Twitter users for posting a tweet less than an hour after her 2-year-old son drowned in a swimming pool at her home.

Shellie Ross, a 38-year-old stay-at-home mother who lives outside Patrick Air Force Base where her husband serves, posted a message asking that people pray for her son after he had fallen into the family's swimming pool on Monday. Her son, Bryson, died at a hospital less than an hour after paramedics responded.

Ross has more than 5,000 followers on her Twitter account, Military—Mom, and she also maintains a blog, Blog4Mom.
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Florida mom under fire for tweet after son's death