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When my kids were infants I never left them in the car unsupervised. I realize there are exceptions and people out there can't mind their own business and unless a child is in distress you shouldn't meddle. Feel free to judge them though, I judge everyone. Especially parents who use leashes or those supermarket cart protectors. So silly. Such a parenting cop out.
There's a good motto to live by! MYOB while silently judging everyone you can. It works particularly well if you can master the look of disdain and "loud talking" . It is especially important to not directly address the intended target of disdain of course, that would violate the MYOB. But do feel free to discuss other mother's shortcomings loudly enough they can't help but "overhear". Hopefully then they can be on notice of their obviously poor parenting and make strides to be as perfect as you.
There's a good motto to live by! MYOB while silently judging everyone you can. It works particularly well if you can master the look of disdain and "loud talking" . It is especially important to not directly address the intended target of disdain of course, that would violate the MYOB. But do feel free to discuss other mother's shortcomings loudly enough they can't help but "overhear". Hopefully then they can be on notice of their obviously poor parenting and make strides to be as perfect as you.
Wish I could rep you again! It's tough being a mere mortal in the perfect parenting brigade that posts on here.
I was always super cautious and never left infants or young children in the car alone. Ever. If I tried to get gas and the pay at the pump option wasn't working, I'd leave and go to a different gas station. If I absolutely had to get gas, I'd take my kids in with me to pay (grumbling the whole time in my head)
When my kids got to be around 8-10, I'd leave them in for something like running in to pay for gas or something else where I knew I'd be back within a few minutes. Not to go shopping in a store. Kids can get into things. I never left the car running with kids in it until they were teens, and then it is also briefly (car running to warm up, I run upstairs to get something I forgot).
When my kids were infants I never left them in the car unsupervised. I realize there are exceptions and people out there can't mind their own business and unless a child is in distress you shouldn't meddle. Feel free to judge them though, I judge everyone. Especially parents who use leashes or those supermarket cart protectors. So silly. Such a parenting cop out.
I'm not getting into yet another "leash" discussion. Curious what you think is a "cop out" about putting a cover on a shopping cart. It doesn't make any part of the shopping trip easier. You may consider it unnecessary, but a lot of things are...
When my kids were infants I never left them in the car unsupervised. I realize there are exceptions and people out there can't mind their own business and unless a child is in distress you shouldn't meddle. Feel free to judge them though, I judge everyone. Especially parents who use leashes or those supermarket cart protectors. So silly. Such a parenting cop out.
OK, I must be missing something here. What's wrong with the cart protector thingy? That is actually one thing I always wanted when my kids were toddlers that I never got round to buying. For my next kid, would totally buy it. The carts are filthy and on the few occasions that I had any of my kids when there were toddlers in the grocery store, I wished I had one. Bad Mummy like me!
I lived in a colder climate where there really isn't much concern about infants overheating in a car except for possibly a couple of weeks in the entire year so I can see why someone might leave their baby for ten minutes or so and I don't think I'd judge that. I've never had to do it because I don't drive so whenever we've been in a car there's always another adult so my baby could stay with the other adult if I just wanted to quickly grab something from a shop, or get cash out.
When my kids were infants I never left them in the car unsupervised. I realize there are exceptions and people out there can't mind their own business and unless a child is in distress you shouldn't meddle. Feel free to judge them though, I judge everyone. Especially parents who use leashes or those supermarket cart protectors. So silly. Such a parenting cop out.
Say you walk by a car with an infant in it, at that point infant doesn't look distressed, but what if mom didn't come back for an hour? And now baby is dead because you decided to MYOB?
I sure as heck would immediately stop and call the police if I saw an infant alone in a locked car. Specially if I didn't see mom or dad within the immediate vicinity. And I would not hesitate to smash open a window if I thought the baby was in a dangerous position.
I never leave my son in the car alone, NEVER. I will always pull him out first, even if groceries are in the car, I'll grab the cold stuff and him and come back later for the rest or take him to the house and get him settled inside then return.
BTW I disagree a leash is a cop-out, some kids are runners!
Say you walk by a car with an infant in it, at that point infant doesn't look distressed, but what if mom didn't come back for an hour? And now baby is dead because you decided to MYOB?
I sure as heck would immediately stop and call the police if I saw an infant alone in a locked car. Specially if I didn't see mom or dad within the immediate vicinity. And I would not hesitate to smash open a window if I thought the baby was in a dangerous position.
I never leave my son in the car alone, NEVER. I will always pull him out first, even if groceries are in the car, I'll grab the cold stuff and him and come back later for the rest or take him to the house and get him settled inside then return.
BTW I disagree a leash is a cop-out, some kids are runners!
I do agree. If I knew there was an infant in that car, or any car, I would stay with the car until the parent came back or I could wave down security. Not necessarily that the baby was in distress or I would want anything bad to happen to the parent. But if I walked away and something did happen, I could never forgive myself
We have had two car thefts in the last two weeks where the kids were in the backseats. Don't leave your purse, computer, packages, or KIDS in a car alone. Our police are beyond frustrated with people doing it.
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