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re: ATL - Toddler Left in Car
Posted on 6/19/14 at 10:27 am to GRTiger
Posted on 6/19/14 at 10:27 am to GRTiger
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Actually, assuming you are immune is what is called for in the recipe for disaster.
I wasn't immune! Jesus Tap-dancing Christ...
Preventing this was simple. It took almost no effort. It didn't require any new gadgets. It did not require any special habits like a stuffed animal in their seat.
All it took was paying attention to them. I'm not sure why that sounds like something special, but it really is not.
It's not that I was immune to this. It's that I recognize that when my children are with me, there are bad things that can happen to them if I'm not vigilant. This can be demonstrated in any number of examples where all it takes to prevent something bad happening is an ounce of prevention. I make the effort. If my making the effort makes others feel badly because they don't, then that's on them. But I'm not interested in pretending this is some plague that's liable to happen to anyone...it isn't.
In these situations, I do not feel bad for the parents...even if it was an "honest mistake." I feel badly for the child who baked, and for the future and life they will never have because their parent unfortunately placed their own schedule and/or routine ahead of making sure their child was ok.
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Posted on 6/19/14 at 11:16 am to GeauxTigerTM
You are so correct. It astounds me that people can find an excuse for this. Can it happen to anyone? Sure....but it doesn't. It happens a few times a year over a course of hundreds of millions of commutes with children in tow.
Like you, I am a pretty seasoned parent. I have four kids and my watchful eye and ear is always...always, tuned to their safety and protection. I just don't comprehend how the mind can completely shut off the fact that your baby is in your presence. For a minute or few....sure but not any longer than that.
Any one reading who doesn't have children yet please don't worry about this happening to you. It is a one in probably 300 million commutes kind of odds. Your child will never, ever be out of your mind more than an hour at a time unless you are asleep. Heck, you can be sitting in the most important corporate meeting of the year and you will think about the baby. The child will be in your thoughts all day, everyday.
This dude just wasn't wired right if his baby wasn't in his thoughts at least once an hour.
Like you, I am a pretty seasoned parent. I have four kids and my watchful eye and ear is always...always, tuned to their safety and protection. I just don't comprehend how the mind can completely shut off the fact that your baby is in your presence. For a minute or few....sure but not any longer than that.
Any one reading who doesn't have children yet please don't worry about this happening to you. It is a one in probably 300 million commutes kind of odds. Your child will never, ever be out of your mind more than an hour at a time unless you are asleep. Heck, you can be sitting in the most important corporate meeting of the year and you will think about the baby. The child will be in your thoughts all day, everyday.
This dude just wasn't wired right if his baby wasn't in his thoughts at least once an hour.
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