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Because that happens rather regularly. Read that now iconic Washington Post article about just this thing. People's minds wander, they think they've done something because they have a memory doing it yesterday and last week. Oftentimes it's something innocuous like putting on deodorant or closing the garage door, and sometimes it leads to tragedy like this.
Also, remember these car seats are turned around too. I can't see my kid from the front seat, all I can see is the back of the car seat. This is definitely terrible to hear, but I could imagine it happening on accident.
But how do you forget to take a child, who's in your car, to daycare? She didn't forget to go at the end of the day to pick the child up. How do you put a child in your car, then forget where you're going with the child?
Why do we always have people saying this when these tragic stories happen every summer? So annoying.
I just can't excuse this sort of thing, child or pet. Make the offense a mandatory prison sentence in some hot as hell prison in a desert somewhere. Geeze.
I just can't excuse this sort of thing, child or pet. Make the offense a mandatory prison sentence in some hot as hell prison in a desert somewhere. Geeze.
Have you ever thought you did something, but actually forgot to do it? Of course you have. You just feel superior because you were lucky enough that a child wasn't involved.
Most people go through their mornings on automatic pilot. Mornings are usually the most stressful part of the day for families trying to get everyone fed, dressed, and out the door to work and get kids to daycare/school. Additional stress, pressure from the job, or a change in schedule can throw off anyone's memory.
I don't have children, so I have not been in the position of this grandmother. But I can imagine how easily it could happen and I would be suicidal over it.
If we had an anonymous poll, I'm sure we'd find a substantial number of parents have accidentally left a child behind or have come damn close. Their stories just don't make the news because they had a better outcome.
No, because with electronic devices it's something you'll ALWAYS have. So if you do forget it, you'll figure it out in the next couple minutes. I think people do leave those things in the car, but in 10 minutes they realize it.
At work, people don't encounter their children so they don't realize they're still in the car.
You rarely see a responsible sober adult leave a child in the car at home. Because if they did, pretty quickly they'd think hey where's the baby, and then oh no still in the car!
That is exactly how it happens.
If you're driving along with a quiet baby and your mind is on a million things you need to get done (typical morning thoughts), walking into the office isn't a prompt to remember because you have no expectation of seeing your baby in the office.
Your day just feels normal.
When you think of your baby, you think of them being at daycare. You would have to actually remember not dropping them off and that's not how a distracted brain works.
As I said above, people are on automatic pilot in the morning.
My parents didn't have to worry about this because our mom stayed home with us until she went back to work when I was in high school. That was the norm at the time. I'm never surprised that we hear these stories all the time now. Parents of young children are pulled in more directions today.
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