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Thanks for reposting it. I was reading to the end of this thread to see if anyone else had before I linked it again.
From that link about people:
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Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child . . . well, who can blame them? What kind of person forgets a baby?
The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist.
And about memory:
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David Diamond is picking at his breakfast at a Washington hotel, trying to explain.
“Memory is a machine,” he says, “and it is not flawless. Our conscious mind prioritizes things by importance, but on a cellular level, our memory does not. If you’re capable of forgetting your cellphone, you are potentially capable of forgetting your child.”
Diamond is a professor of molecular physiology at the University of South Florida and a consultant to the veterans hospital in Tampa. He’s here for a national science conference to give a speech about his research, which involves the intersection of emotion, stress and memory. What he’s found is that under some circumstances, the most sophisticated part of our thought-processing center can be held hostage to a competing memory system, a primitive portion of the brain that is -- by a design as old as the dinosaur’s -- inattentive, pigheaded, nonanalytical, stupid.
Maybe she worked at Hobby Lobby and couldn't afford birth control because they took that benefit away?
(kidding)
You are awesome. hahaha.
oops. My bad, I forgot the thing I worked my ass off for for 9 months and pushed a bowling ball out. Yeah.. no big deal. Come on, how do these people forget their child. I have become extremely paranoid because of these stories. Every time I park my car and see a child seat, I make sure it's empty.
oops. My bad, I forgot the thing I worked my ass off for for 9 months and pushed a bowling ball out. Yeah.. no big deal. Come on, how do these people forget their child. I have become extremely paranoid because of these stories. Every time I park my car and see a child seat, I make sure it's empty.
Oh you don't know that. Who says that this isn't a thing now, where parents who don't want to be parents "forget their kid" in the backseat so as not to be charged with murder? We had what seemed like an epidemic of co-sleeping deaths of infants. You know, where the mom sleeps with the baby because they can't afford a crib, they roll over & crush the baby or "accidentally" smother it? Call me pessimistic but I wonder how many of those were really accidents? Mom doesn't want to be a mom, finds an easy way to kill the kid without being charged with murder & voila.
The best thing to do is to put something in the back seat that you will need, like a pocket book so thar when you go in the back seat to get it, you remember to take your child too.
Sadly this happens a lot. And it's not always crackhead, drug users, sometimes it is hard-working, normal, middle class folks.
So your child isn't something that you NEED to take care of? I hate these stories. I have two children and every time I see one of these stories I believe the parent should go to jail. No doubt about it. I had my first child at a young age and NEVER did this in the hot Houston heat and STILL don't see how it happens EVER. The excuses they give are always BS and the parents should serve time to jog their memories.
So your child isn't something that you NEED to take care of? I hate these stories. I have two children and every time I see one of these stories I believe the parent should go to jail. No doubt about it. I had my first child at a young age and NEVER did this in the hot Houston heat and STILL don't see how it happens EVER. The excuses they give are always BS and the parents should serve time to jog their memories.
I totally agree with you but I have met a lot of people over my years and have come to the conclusion that there are just some different type folks out there. However you want to describe them whether it be crazy, eccentric, out there, stupid, dumb, wired up different, eclectic, odd, a little off, peculiar, weird whatever - some folks just need whatever help they can get.
What the hell has happened to people ??? Moms and Dads killing kids, others "forgetting" them in a hot car, etc, etc. I am not necessarily a believer that the end is near, but it does make you wonder sometimes. There was a time when nothing was more important than our children, NOTHING ! But either people are getting dumber or they just don't care any more.
What the hell has happened to people ??? Moms and Dads killing kids, others "forgetting" them in a hot car, etc, etc. I am not necessarily a believer that the end is near, but it does make you wonder sometimes. There was a time when nothing was more important than our children, NOTHING ! But either people are getting dumber or they just don't care any more.
Don
Well...
After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it.
Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. -- Luke 2
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