You're NOT Serious!!! - Page 5

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

OP stated the following posted below so the woman was getting her taxes done and not just there to drop something off!! Even if she was, neglect is neglect and how can anyone justify it regardless of the time they were left unattended - expecially when the car was not in view at all times??!!!

"The children were beautiful, and that 8 yr old little boy was SO sweet and innocent I could have cried.

I talked to him about school and told him how important it was while she got her taxes done."

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

In all seriousness, I don't leave my dog in the car if I cannot see her from inside the place I am going.

I don't care if it was for 5 minutes or 5 hours, those kids should have been brough inside. What if the car was stolen and those kids were inside? What if something caught the 8 year old's eye and he decided to get out of the car and wander off? What if someone up to no good approached the car and lured the kid away?

Abductions and worse happen to kids just walking somewhere, a very short distance from home. The same could happen to kids left for a few minutes in an unattended vehicle.

SMH

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

If the mother was so "unfit", why did the o/p continue to do business with her?

Why didn't she throw the woman out of her office?

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

@suzyQ3 wrote:
@cherry wrote:
I had a neighbor that left her baby locked in the car and went in a restaurant to eat. She didn't give it a thought. Her husband did and went to sit with the baby.He had a conscience

She wasn't some poor frazzled mother, either. She did stuff like leaving her baby in the tub to play ,with a1/2 inch of water in the tub. An older neighbor finally had heard enough , when Margo said she left the baby in the crib ,all alone, while she made a quick run to the store, to pick up a few items. She said if you ever do that again, I will report you,

She didn't come from a poor home, either. Her dad was athletic director for West Point. Her mother was good friends with President Ike's dil, Barbara, I think her name was.

You did the right thing.
@cherry, not sure why this is mentioned.

Because it cuts right across the spectrum. It's not only poor, working mothers, that do this kind of thing

ChiliPepper · ‎01-16-2015

Sorry, kind of off exact topic a little......

Where I work we do home deliveries of furniture etc. - it has to be brought into the house & set up.

I am CONSTANTLY shocked the number of people that will leave kids home to accept these deliveries. We won't obviously (well, I think it should be obvious LOL) - an adult MUST be there.

Just yesterday a customer got upset with me because we wouldn't allow their 8 year old son to UNLOCK THE DOOR & ALLOW 2 STRANGE MEN INTO THEIR HOUSE for the delivery.

Unbelievable!!!

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

@cherry wrote:
@suzyQ3 wrote:
@cherry wrote:
I had a neighbor that left her baby locked in the car and went in a restaurant to eat. She didn't give it a thought. Her husband did and went to sit with the baby.He had a conscience

She wasn't some poor frazzled mother, either. She did stuff like leaving her baby in the tub to play ,with a1/2 inch of water in the tub. An older neighbor finally had heard enough , when Margo said she left the baby in the crib ,all alone, while she made a quick run to the store, to pick up a few items. She said if you ever do that again, I will report you,

She didn't come from a poor home, either. Her dad was athletic director for West Point. Her mother was good friends with President Ike's dil, Barbara, I think her name was.

You did the right thing.
@cherry, not sure why this is mentioned.
Because it cuts right across the spectrum. It's not only poor, working mothers, that do this kind of thing

@cherry, that's just not an assumption I've ever made, and that some might make such an assumption is worse than sad.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Cats3000 · ‎10-07-2013

I would have called the police on my cell phone, tell them what you see and let them do the rest.

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

muttmom · ‎11-28-2012

@ECBG

I seem to remember you posted you taught design. As a teacher, don't you have to report this to child protective services?

You mention filing taxes so I do not know if this is at school or an office. If it's the latter I would have suggested she bring the children in. It is not your job to demand she do this. If she chose not to, I'd inform the police.

AngusandBuddhasMom · ‎03-10-2010

@Trinity11 wrote:
@Maudelyn wrote:
@Qshopper1991 wrote:
@Plaid Pants2 wrote:
@Maudelyn wrote:
Did she come in to drop off the taxes? Or was she going to be sitting in an office having her taxes done? If she was running into the office to have a copy of her license made, I don't think it's a big deal. We're talking 3 or 4 minutes.
If she was going to sit while her taxes were being done, that's definitely a different story.

Exactly!

If she was only in there for 3 - 4 minutes that's hardly worth calling the cops, or CPS over.
I would not leave 2 small children alone in a car even for 3- 4 minutes I can't imagine doing that. jmo.

Exactly. No one should leave a child unattended in a car - or any place else even for a minute. So many terrible things can happen - people have no common sense.
LOL. Makes sense to me not to have to unbuckle, unstrap, dress, and tote 2 children into a building that is close by. If the children were being parked in a parking garage and left, no. But to run inside to drop off some documents, I see no problem with. Espeially if the area was not busy, as the OP suggest and one of the children is 8. And I most certainly have common sense.

An 8 year old isn't mature enough to care for an 8 month old. Suppose the baby started chocking on their bottle? No 8 year old would know how to deal with it...

An 8 year old should not be forced the responsibility of an adult just because the so called adult isn't mature enough to realize the dangers of what could happen. Thank goodness this time they didn't. Honestly do not understand how someone is so careless with a childs life. To bad its work they are children not little adults. The fact that they need help being dressed, buckled, unstrap and shlepped should be the first clue they are not equipped to fend for themselves nor should they be forced to. jmo but seriously??????