A question for parents - Page 3

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

On 6/30/2014 Lila Belle said:
On 6/30/2014 JaneMarple said:
On 6/30/2014 VanSleepy said:
On 6/30/2014 JaneMarple said:
When my babies fell asleep in the car and I didn't want to wake them up, I would stay in the car with them, even in the driveway.

While I can understand not wanting to wake a napping baby, geez this could be hours!

If it was nap time, I would pull out a book because they weren't heavy sleepers.

Nap time is good. My oldest child was always soothed by a car ride when he was colic-y. Good times. LOL

Edita, you're too funny.

Demitra1 · ‎03-11-2010

I once forgot to pick up my DD at her babysitter's between my two jobs. I was about an hour late....felt really badly. The babysitter was an older lady and kept my DD at her home. Another time I wrote her weekly check on Friday when I picked up my DD, closed the checkbook and put it back in my purse, I didn't realize I had done that till I started to write the next check. Ugh.....too much on my mind or just ditzy, not sure which.

pattypeep · ‎06-06-2011

Never, never, never. I raised three kids (sometimes as a single mom), worked full time, ran kids to day care, blah, blah, blah. I will get blasted for saying this, but I do not believe for one New York minute that a parent can "forget" their child in a car. The only "excuse", I use the term loosely, is if they were high on drugs or suffer a mental illness. I'm not saying people don't leave children for 10 minutes while running into a store falls into the same category, but I've never done that either. My children were always in the forefront of my mind no matter what was going on. The youngest is in his 30's and the older ones are in their 40's.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea-Robert A. Heinlein

missy1 · ‎03-10-2010

Never!

Disneylandfan · ‎03-10-2010

No I never have and always wonder how it could happen. I stumbled across this article about why kids get left in cars this week and found it sad and interesting.

Don't know why the link in qvc's program won't work. But if you want to look up Washington Post-fatal distraction forgetting a child is a horrifying mistake or a crime?

brii · ‎06-20-2010

Never ever.

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

No, never. I am aware, however, that some medications, medical conditions, and mental problems can and do give people lack of concentration and extreme forgetfulness. I also believe there could be a slight possibility that these people were researching this kind of death because they were concerned about leaving their child too long in a car....which, to me says they might have been guilty of doing this before. I don't believe a child should ever be left alone for any reason in a car so I would definitely see that as neglect or abuse. Sometimes things are not as they appear. I too am suspicious of their actions but suspicions prove nothing so I am withholding judgment till I know more.

shesallthat · ‎03-09-2010

On 6/30/2014 JaneMarple said:
No of course not, when i hear of this happening I always wonder who the H forgets that their baby is in the car?

that is my reaction also! how do you forget what should be the most important thing in the world to you is in the backseat of the car!? ${#emotions_dlg.confused1}$ at least my boys are to me and they were never forgotten in the car!