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One story always sticks out to me when I hear of these things - that of a sick mom, the husband took the baby instead of her and then got an emergency call from work, took off in a rush in that direction on the phone, ran into work and hours later realized with horror what he had done when he called his wife to check on her and she gratefully told him how she appreciated him taking the baby in.
It's all too horrible to even think about. As soon as my son was old enough, I made him learn how to unbuckle his carseat. Of course, by then he was a bit older than the most dangerous age, but still. I honestly wish I didn't even hear most of these stories. Once they're in your mind, it's really hard to get them out.
This should teach us all something. We have to slow the hell down. The urgency to be everywhere all the time and letting work go before anything else and cloud our judgements and let our priorities get all kinds of messed up is causing good people to make horrible mistakes.
This should teach us all something. We have to slow the hell down. The urgency to be everywhere all the time and letting work go before anything else and cloud our judgements and let our priorities get all kinds of messed up is causing good people to make horrible mistakes.
Realistically being busy is probably part of it but the single best predictors are change in routine followed by lack of sleep. Slowing down is not going to change those. Parents need more realistic solutions that will become habits.
I think the teddy bear one is a great idea, and the laptop/purse next to the carseat. Someone in the old thread suggested having a big toy like keychain on the car key so it isn't possible to get out of the car without seeing it and having a visual reminder to remember to LOOK in the carseat.
People are going to be busy, it isn't even new (as evidenced by all the stories of moms and dads forgetting the baby in the pram years ago) but if we can learn strategies to remember other things we can can certainly do the same thing to remember to look in the backseat EVERYDAY.
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