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akern
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 Posted: 12/29/05 - 13:43 Post subject: Re: Leaving kids in the car alone
| DCRunningDiva wrote: | The other day we had an unseasonably warm day and my friend left her 14 month old baby in the car with window's cracked while she went into our friend's house for about 2-3 hours. The baby was sleeping and she didn't want to wake her. She (or her DH) checked on the baby periodically. I would have NEVER done that. That baby would have been right there in the house with me...even if she was awake.
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This is just stupid!! Leave a baby in the car while you go a-visiting!! 
Next time you see your friend, slap her and tell her it's from "akern".
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 13:45 Post subject: Re: Leaving kids in the car alone
| akern wrote: | | DCRunningDiva wrote: | The other day we had an unseasonably warm day and my friend left her 14 month old baby in the car with window's cracked while she went into our friend's house for about 2-3 hours. The baby was sleeping and she didn't want to wake her. She (or her DH) checked on the baby periodically. I would have NEVER done that. That baby would have been right there in the house with me...even if she was awake.
I'm just sayin... |
This is just stupid!! Leave a baby in the car while you go a-visiting!!
Next time you see your friend, slap her and tell her it's from "akern". |
Well, to her credit, they have been living in Europe for the past two years where it is totally legal to leave your kids in the car alone.
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j1miller
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 13:56 Post subject: Re: Leaving kids in the car alone
| akern wrote: | | DCRunningDiva wrote: | The other day we had an unseasonably warm day and my friend left her 14 month old baby in the car with window's cracked while she went into our friend's house for about 2-3 hours. The baby was sleeping and she didn't want to wake her. She (or her DH) checked on the baby periodically. I would have NEVER done that. That baby would have been right there in the house with me...even if she was awake.
I'm just sayin... |
This is just stupid!! Leave a baby in the car while you go a-visiting!!
Next time you see your friend, slap her and tell her it's from "akern". |
I agree with that.... totally not the same as running into a store to hand a clerk a $5....
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msparks
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 16:34 Post subject: Re: Leaving kids in the car alone
| DCRunningDiva wrote: |
Well, to her credit, they have been living in Europe for the past two years where it is totally legal to leave your kids in the car alone. |
Credit? For what? Because she did something that was LEGAL...in Europe?
That is absolutely no excuse, nor can it even remotely be considered a defense, when standing before a judge in this nation.
Imagine...standing up in court, at your negligent homicide trial, and telling the judge and jury, "But it was legal in Europe!"
I've lived in Europe for a longer period of time than your friend. And there were lots of things about the cultures I'd have liked to have brought back here and used. But that is NOT one of them. I don't know where in Europe they were but I know that in Spain, adults dote upon children...they adore them. And that's how it should be. It's very similar in Italy and Sicily.
Nope. Didn't ever, nor ever would I, leave a child alone and unattended, in a car...truck, van, whatever. Even though you may think that the chances of something terrible happening to your child are remote, there's always that one, miniscule chance that the worst could happen. You have to ask yourself: Is the inconvenience of taking the child with me worth it? Imagine the anguish of having to stare at that tiny coffin.
Call me. I'll watch your kids.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 19:05 Post subject:
9 if they are out of sight for a second. I've done like Go, many times for tyme and dropping off cart or post office box outside. If they are in my sight, I was okay, when they were okay. I read an article about a woman that ran into the post office for few seconds and lost custody of her children because they were under the age of eight and she didn't have direct eye contact at all times....so that's where I came of with 9. She was a pediatrician.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 19:13 Post subject:
I keep my children in GPS-enabled, individual plastic bubbles so they're never exposed to anything.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 19:34 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | I keep my children in GPS-enabled, individual plastic bubbles so they're never exposed to anything. |
my 12 year old and i had a similar discussion recently. I told him that i was going to buy him a cell and have a gps attached. he was NOT happy. He said that it would be unfair for him not to be able to tell tales to his kids on how he snuck out at night. I told him that he had it all wrong, my tales were about sneaking IN.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 12/29/05 - 22:42 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | Never have left them alone, just a bad idea. The risks far outweigh any time saved |
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