Death by carseat heat -

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I agree.

I'm waiting on a trend to develop where technological advances make life not just easier physically, but also mentally. Maybe the paradox is that we need some tasks to be more physically demanding and require more time to complete which then causes us to slow down mentally.

A fair statement, but there is a difference between recognizing personal responsibilty (and failure) and recognizing societal trends which will lend themselves to more people being overstressed.

Parents being distracted has always and will always be a societal problem. This doesn't excuse the individual failures caused by the distractions, but we can acknowledge that more distractions will lead to more failures.

Blind link OPs are so damn lazy. At least post a headline and a few paragraphs.

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This is terrible. Can you imagine the pain and agony that child went through while literally being cooked? Who knows what was going through it's mind. Probably just wanted his mother to save him and make it all better.

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And there goes my ability to study this morning. Makes me want to puke.

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These are all choices we make on our own. A child did not make the choice to come into this world. It was once again the parents choice. Just because this shite happens on a regular basis should never be an excuse for the shitty parent.

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I don't think, in most of these cases, that being a shitty parent was the prevailing factor. Being distracted was. How many times have any of us forgotten something just from being distracted by something else? Sometimes bad shite just happens. It happens when you drive past your turn or exit and realize it a half mile later. Or it could be you take a call and get involved and forget to attend an important meeting. Or forget to wear a belt. Sometimes it's just stupid shite, and sometimes it's life altering shite. Everyone experiences it in one form or another. The difference is the degree of failure that results.

As a parent, I can see how easily something like that can happen. Still think it's a crime, though I think living the rest of your life knowing your absentmindedness killed you child is punishment enough.


I miss the days when I was a kid and mom would leave us in the car with the windows down while she grocery shopped. Wouldn't even leave the radio on for us, and she got us out of the car we got the belt when we got home.

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I don't think, in most of these cases, that being a shitty parent was the prevailing factor

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I am sure the intent was to not be a shitty parent. But letting a phone call or something on the radio distract you to a point that you killed your child equates to shitty parenting.

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As appalling as it is, in today's world, the everyday decisions a person has to consciously and subconsciously make must be 20X what our grandparents had to make. There is so much to deal with, so much distraction.

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BS! How old are you?
Your granparents probably lived in the period where thousands of young men and women left the deep south, traveled to Ohio and Michigan to work in steel mills and auto factories. That was not stressful?
I'm seventy two. I live under a lot less stress than my parents and grandparents.
I have two sons, both successful, neither has the stress that parents had to endure to put food on the table for me and my seven brothers and sisters.
The only safety net in those times except friends and relatives.