re: NOPD: Two teens carjack mother at gunpoint, tell her to take her baby

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If they wake up while your carrying them then you can't bring anything else in the house. because they will need your full attention.

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I suppose I feel more comfortable having them inside the house whether I woke them or not. I’d rather them crying inside for 2 minutes than sitting in a car unattended for 30 seconds.

Also I may be taking for granted the click in baby seat that you can bring in without waking them. I also assume this is a small baby.

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Ahh still at that stage where you can go in public I see. Yeah try that with a 14 month old who is walking.

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Mine is 2 pal. Prepare yourself

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I lived in Millington for a bit.. not the GOAT suburb

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Hey at least you weren't far from Justin Timberlake's golf course

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Congrats! Me too. Looking forward to no sleep again

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I have no clue how I did it the first time.

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Mine is 2 pal. Prepare yourself

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Mine is 3.

2 was cake

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they didn't want to add kidnapping charge, which is a federal charge....

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No, a sleeping child is not the first thing I move out of a vehicle if i need to make several trips to and from the car. That allows me more actual "eyes on baby" time while completing my task

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What, in your opinion, is more dangerous; leaving your sleeping baby in your car, which a movable object, while you frick around doing something else or, taking the car seat out of the car and placing the baby into the safety of your home? But I see you've already answered this question - taking the groceries inside is more important.

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No, a sleeping child is not the first thing I move out of a vehicle if i need to make several trips to and from the car. That allows me more actual "eyes on baby" time while completing my task


What, in your opinion, is more dangerous; leaving your sleeping baby in your car, which a movable object, while you frick around doing something else or, taking the car seat out of the car and placing the baby into the safety of your home? But I see you've already answered this question - taking the groceries inside is more important.

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I would suggest the "danger" posed by choosing one or the other is statistically insignificant in most cases. The general parental urge, though, is to let a sleeping baby be, unless and until there is a need to do otherwise. The natural inclination will be to unload the car first and then get the child. The only way I'd assign even a tiny bit of fault to this mother would be if there had been some sort of rash of carjackings in her immediate neighborhood.

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Are you suggesting that you leave the baby be until it wakes up? Or just until you are finished doing what you are doing (ie convenient for you).

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Usually until you are finished unloading, but I'll be honest, there were times on a nice day, that if my kid was sleeping, I'd roll the window down and let them sleep, while I sat on the front porch. I guess that was a horrible risk.

If we're really talking statistical "dangers", though, they were infinitely higher for the kid when you were actually driving the car with them in it, you realize, then parked in your driveway?