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re: What is your opinion on parents who forget their children in the car?
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:40 pm to shutterspeed
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:40 pm to shutterspeed
Same parents that forgot to use a condom.
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Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:40 pm to Grim
They are forgetful.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:43 pm to Grim
I'm a sucker for ice cream. I've never once in my life forgotten ice cream in my car. If I can remember to get something as trivial and inconsequential as ice cream out of my car, I cannot imagine forgetting my own child.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:47 pm to Grim
I can't fathom it, but I know people's brains work differently and in some cases the person was overloaded and out of routine when it happened.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:49 pm to Peazey
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Out of the ordinary you have to take the baby in the morning to drop it off at daycare instead of the SO. And your mind doesn't keep up. You make one horrible life changing frick up. Some of the people who do this seem to be perfectly loving parents. I do feel really bad for them. I'm sure some of them are simply shite bags though.
This is what I always think - "there but for the grace of God go I" = even though most of them are probably shite bags, I don't think they deserve automatic condemnation unless some actual pattern of neglect is found.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:51 pm to Peazey
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I read an article a while back that I think was actually posted here that went into the psychology of it. You're going through your day in auto pilot. You do one thing differently. Out of the ordinary you have to take the baby in the morning to drop it off at daycare instead of the SO. And your mind doesn't keep up. You make one horrible life changing frick up. Some of the people who do this seem to be perfectly loving parents. I do feel really bad for them. I'm sure some of them are simply shite bags though.
I'd think a change in your routine would make you less likely to forget.
On the other hand, a minor change is easy to forget. I carpool with one of the guys at my office sometimes because his apartment is one block off my normal route. I've never forgotten to pick him up but I've driven past his street a couple of times.
This post was edited on 1/18/21 at 7:55 am
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:51 pm to ClaireCleary
Have you ever gone out to do a bunch of errands then gotten distracted and forgotten to do the most important thing on the list? That's closer to what I imagine is going on in these people's minds than deliberately going out to get groceries and remembering what you deliberately went out to do.
People tend to think they're above making a stupid mistake until it's them. But whatever, I thankfully have no personal experience with this.
People tend to think they're above making a stupid mistake until it's them. But whatever, I thankfully have no personal experience with this.
This post was edited on 6/2/15 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 6/2/15 at 8:53 pm to Grim
Better than bringing their crying asses into a hotel lobby
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:03 pm to Peazey
Do you have an experience with a baby or a child? Silence is cause for suspicion. Even when my baby was asleep, I'd check because silence is unnerving.
Dying in the heat doesn't take moments like drowning in a pool. It takes hours. Hours of silence in a home because of a break in the routine? Moronic and irresponsible.
Dying in the heat doesn't take moments like drowning in a pool. It takes hours. Hours of silence in a home because of a break in the routine? Moronic and irresponsible.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:07 pm to Grim
In some of those cases it really was a horrible honest tragic mistake, not crappy parenting. I've read it has happened to all kinds of people. Doctors, professionals....one thing out of their routine and they simply forget.
I think the idea of putting your purse/wallet in back seat or your left shoe or your work badge in the back seat is a great idea. Gives you a reason to look in the back seat.
I think the idea of putting your purse/wallet in back seat or your left shoe or your work badge in the back seat is a great idea. Gives you a reason to look in the back seat.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:08 pm to Grim
I talk to/sing to/make noises at my son for most of any short drive when he's in the car with me. We have a mirror on the back seat headrest and I have made a habit of looking into it everytime I get out. I don't think I ever would forget him, but with these now habitual or second nature acts, I'm absolutely certain of it.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:10 pm to Peazey
Thought we called them criminals?
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:13 pm to ClaireCleary
You aren't trying to understand. In fact in context your response doesn't even make sense. Silence in a home? No one is home in my example. It's a specific horrible story that I read about.
Again I'm sure a sizable portion of people who do this are neglectful and horrible people. But I'm not making assumptions about everybody.
Again I'm sure a sizable portion of people who do this are neglectful and horrible people. But I'm not making assumptions about everybody.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:15 pm to GRTiger
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We have a mirror on the back seat headrest and I have made a habit of looking into it everytime I get out.
Very good thing. I remember reading that the frequency that this happens went up a lot when they changed the laws for car seats having to face backwards.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:21 pm to Grim
I am abou the most disorganized, forgetful person on the planet. But I'd never be so irresponsible as to forget my child in the car. If I did, and it led to a child's death, I would find a way to commit suicide. I feel bad for the loss the parents suffer, but frick them and their forgetful asses.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:27 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
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I've never left or almost left my kid in the car. These people are morons.
This. Never came close to forgetting mine. It's bullshite.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:33 pm to mikrit54
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This. Never came close to forgetting mine. It's bullshite.
Just because you never came close doesn't mean you couldn't have. That's the entire point.
We talk about this on here every summer. Nearly every accidental case has the parent(s) routine changed for some reason or another and they either convinced themselves they dropped the kid off or thought the other parent had them.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:39 pm to Golfer
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thought the other parent had them
You see this happen alot in drowning of young kids also. Kid wonders off one parent assumes the other parent took the child or is watching he or she and bam they are gone. Doesn't take long either.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:40 pm to shutterspeed
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They are forgetful.
or severe ADHD?
Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:55 pm to Golfer
Once I nearly walked into the store without my son. I was half out of the car when I remembered he was with me. It was an out of the ordinary situation like those parents claim. He decided he wanted to come at the last minute. But as soon as I caught myself, the gut wrench horror was awful. Can't imagine what those people go thru. But it still haunts me for forgetting for a half second.
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