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A one-year-old baby girl has died after her father accidentally left her inside a hot pickup truck in East Nashville.
The girl’s parents—who adopted her—forgot about their child after the father dropped her siblings off at day care, according to Metropolitan Nashville Police. She was eventually found dead in the car by her mother, later that evening.
For those with very young children, I don't understand why they don't concoct some system that would prevent this. Everyone knows now how prevalent this is...
some sort of sticky note reminder on steering wheel system, or parent without child calls parent with child to make sure kid is out of the car...or some sort of motion detector system with warning in back seat...
Parents are so busy, can see why it could happen....but these parents need to be extra vigilant...
If the child was supposed to be at day care, why didn't the day care call her parents to ask where she was? This needs to be done 100% of the time when an expected child doesn't show up.
If someone else was going to be watching the child, who was that? It can't be the mom. Did the dad "forget" that he was supposed to have her all day?
If the child was supposed to be at day care, why didn't the day care call her parents to ask where she was? This needs to be done 100% of the time when an expected child doesn't show up.
If someone else was going to be watching the child, who was that? It can't be the mom. Did the dad "forget" that he was supposed to have her all day?
It is possible that daycare providers would be reluctant to have this placed on them as a requirement. They might be concerned that the blame for a "forgotten" child would then be placed on them. It is not the daycare provider's responsibility to remind a parent that the parent has a child to care for.
It is hard to fathom how someone could forget and leave a child in the car, but unfortunately it happens all too frequently.
A good practice is to put things that would absolutely be missed in the back seat along with the child... purse, wallet, phone, work badge, laptop, etc. The phone is a good one for many, as they will miss it right away. And there's a nice side benefit to putting it in the back... no temptation to use it while driving.
It is possible that daycare providers would be reluctant to have this placed on them as a requirement. They might be concerned that the blame for a "forgotten" child would then be placed on them. It is not the daycare provider's responsibility to remind a parent that the parent has a child to care for.
If it's my regular job to watch a child during certain hours and that child does not show up at the scheduled time, I'm not going to ignore it and go on my merry way all day. I'm going to call to find out why they weren't there. This seems so elementary and not about "blaming" anyone. Either the parent calls to let the daycare/babysitter know they aren't coming, or the caregiver will call them when they don't show up. It's their job to watch the kid; they need to know what is going on.
Even my doctor's office calls if I don't show up for an appointment within 30 minutes of the scheduled time.
I didn't need a method because my kids were absolutely at the forefront of my thoughts at all times when they were little...and even now. But some how it does happen...and it seems to be happening more (someone correct me if I am wrong). So something needs to be done in the car seat industry or the car industry.
What about a car seat that knows its buckled in and if there is weight in it and it gets to a specific temp, it sends off a high pitched alarm that you can hear throughout a normal sized parking lot? We have that or car theft. We have cars that drive themselves. Surely we are smart enough as a society to build some sort of warning system?
The terrible comparison can be made that probably all of these parents would immediately miss their cel-phone if they got four feet away from it.
"Ooops, I'll just be a sec; left my cel-phone on the counter, can't leave home without it."
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