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Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school

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Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school
In case it is absolutely clear:
It's not the cars that killed these children, it's the parents and their absent mindedness.
The article gives a couple other examples of children dying in hot cars, and it seems that in all those cases, no one intended on leaving their children in the cars, thinking it was safe. Rather, the parents simply forgot their children were in the car. Parents must take care of their child! MUST.
 
Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school
In case it is absolutely clear:
It's not the cars that killed these children, it's the parents and their absent mindedness.
The article gives a couple other examples of children dying in hot cars, and it seems that in all those cases, no one intended on leaving their children in the cars, thinking it was safe. Rather, the parents simply forgot their children were in the car. Parents must take care of their child! MUST.

I can understand how it happens. While I've never forgotten either of my children in the car alone (I have in a shopping cart for a few steps b4 remembering one of them, though) .. It has happened where they fall asleep in the car and i completely forget about them for a long while. I do remember by the time I get to my destination, though.

Seems an easy fix might be to just tie something to your inside door handle so when you open the door, it serves as a reminder.
 
Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school In case it is absolutely clear: It's not the cars that killed these children, it's the parents and their absent mindedness. The article gives a couple other examples of children dying in hot cars, and it seems that in all those cases, no one intended on leaving their children in the cars, thinking it was safe. Rather, the parents simply forgot their children were in the car. Parents must take care of their child! MUST.
This is why the new-ish (newer than when mine were infants), that infants and their infant seats have to be in the back seat is such a bad idea. It's much easier to not see and hence forget a quiet sleeping infant in the back seat, and usually an infant will fall asleep in a moving vehicle.
 
That's one of the reasons I didn't have kids, I'm too forgetful.
 
Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school

you know, i really doubt that anyone does this even slightly on purpose. we're all so ****ing busy that we get scatterbrained and **** up. it just makes me sick, because i know that there probably won't be a day between now and death that the parent won't think about this and agonize over it. you want to know what hell is like? get exhausted, overworked, and scatterbrained, and **** up like that. it's just a ****ing awful tragedy when this happens, and i hate reading about it.
 
you know, i really doubt that anyone does this even slightly on purpose. we're all so ****ing busy that we get scatterbrained and **** up. it just makes me sick, because i know that there probably won't be a day between now and death that the parent won't think about this and agonize over it. you want to know what hell is like? get exhausted, overworked, and scatterbrained, and **** up like that. it's just a ****ing awful tragedy when this happens, and i hate reading about it.

Scatterbrained? What a load of crap. Lousy parents is more like it.

Great parents put their children above all else and NEVER forget them in a car unattended...for ANY length of time. My mother never left me in a car (or any of my siblings). I lived with a woman who had children and she would never forget her children, no matter how busy she was. Never. Heck, I never forgot about them and they were not even my children.

The only people who forget about their children left unattended in a car are lousy parents...period.

And level of 'busyness' is no excuse whatsoever. Your children - especially if they are pre-school - should always be the most important thing in your lives and nothing should be able to make you 'scatterbrained' about them. Not your job, your friends, your health...nothing.
 
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Feel terrible for the mother but I can honestly say this would never happen to me and should not happen to most parents. My kids are my life and when I get up in the morning ( if im not working nights lol) I feed them before I get fed, I clean them before I am cleaned and they are dressed before I am dressed. I honestly can not understand how you can forget where you child is especially if they are 18 months old.
 
I can also understand how this could happen. Our brains are imperfect organs and they fail us sometimes, though rarely this catastrophically. I can't imagine the emotions that came over her when she came back to her car and discovered what she had done. I think I would kill myself if I did that to one of my children. The anguish would be unbearable.
 
That's one of the reasons I didn't have kids, I'm too forgetful.

Just gotta find someone who complements that :D

I'm forgetful as hell too. ****, sometimes I forget things people told me just a minute earlier. The good thing is that there is always a partner out there who can rectify that issue.
 
you know, i really doubt that anyone does this even slightly on purpose. we're all so ****ing busy that we get scatterbrained and **** up. it just makes me sick, because i know that there probably won't be a day between now and death that the parent won't think about this and agonize over it. you want to know what hell is like? get exhausted, overworked, and scatterbrained, and **** up like that. it's just a ****ing awful tragedy when this happens, and i hate reading about it.

"I'm sorry your honor. It's just that I was so busy and I forgot him in there! With all this work I'm doing, I'm so scatterbrained!"

Judge's most probable response (in his mind), "What a load of ****ing horse-****. You're ass is getting thrown in jail."

Most people's response, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That you try and rationalize for something like this is almost ****ing inferior.
 
Scatterbrained? What a load of crap. Lousy parents is more like it.

Great parents put their children above all else and NEVER forget them in a car unattended...for ANY length of time. My mother never left me in a car (or any of my siblings). I lived with a woman who had children and she would never forget her children, no matter how busy she was. Never. Heck, I never forgot about them and they were not even my children.

The only people who forget about their children left unattended in a car are lousy parents...period.

And level of 'busyness' is no excuse whatsoever. Your children - especially if they are pre-school - should always be the most important thing in your lives and nothing should be able to make you 'scatterbrained' about them. Not your job, your friends, your health...nothing.

****ing +100000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 
This is why the new-ish (newer than when mine were infants), that infants and their infant seats have to be in the back seat is such a bad idea. It's much easier to not see and hence forget a quiet sleeping infant in the back seat, and usually an infant will fall asleep in a moving vehicle.

Do you think more children would die from being left in the car than would die from being in the front seat in a serious car crash?
 
Toddler dies in hot car as mom teaches inside school
In case it is absolutely clear:
It's not the cars that killed these children, it's the parents and their absent mindedness.
The article gives a couple other examples of children dying in hot cars, and it seems that in all those cases, no one intended on leaving their children in the cars, thinking it was safe. Rather, the parents simply forgot their children were in the car. Parents must take care of their child! MUST.

People like that ought to be neutered.
 
People like that ought to be neutered.

Children have become an accessory, something you dress up and take selfies with. Like so many issues today my generation is just failing on the basics.
 
I'd like to empathize more with the mother, but I really can't.

I raised three kids, and never had a situation like this. Neither has anyone in my family. Nor has anyone I've known.

I'm sorry, but she's a lousy parent - and she paid the price.

I can't imagine her pain ...
 
I'd like to empathize more with the mother, but I really can't.

I raised three kids, and never had a situation like this. Neither has anyone in my family. Nor has anyone I've known.

I'm sorry, but she's a lousy parent - and she paid the price.

I can't imagine her pain ...

That's right; you can't.

Instead of sitting in judgment, just thank God (or your lucky secularist stars if you prefer) that you don't know. You cannot imagine the suffering of a bereaved parent, much less one who bears responsibility for her child's death.
 
That's right; you can't.

Instead of sitting in judgment, just thank God (or your lucky secularist stars if you prefer) that you don't know. You cannot imagine the suffering of a bereaved parent, much less one who bears responsibility for her child's death.
I feel for her pain.

But I don't see this as luck.

My kids never got left in cars, because I don't do that. It's that simple.

This isn't the luck of someone running a red-light, or a plane crashing into your house.

This is forgetting your child in a car, and it's statistically rare for good reason - because parents rarely do it!

I honestly cannot guess what was on her mind that she could forget her kid all day?

But regardless, I don't see how anyone cannot see her as negligent towards her child.
 
Who's said she wasn't negligent?
 
Great parents put their children above all else and NEVER forget them in a car unattended...for ANY length of time. My mother never left me in a car (or any of my siblings). I lived with a woman who had children and she would never forget her children, no matter how busy she was. Never. Heck, I never forgot about them and they were not even my children.

The only people who forget about their children left unattended in a car are lousy parents...period.

A very popular opinion of most of the parents this has happened to prior to it happening to them.

After leaving child in car, 'that pain never goes away' - CNN.com

Leaving a child in a car seems unfathomable to many. Isn't a child a caregiver's priority at all times? What kind of person just forgets? If you are quick to say, 'I could never,' consider that people who devote their lives to studying these incidents say that anyone of any age or profession is liable to do it. So are people who are educated and not, rich, poor or middle class, mothers as much as fathers. It happens more than one might think: about three to four times a month in the United States. Criminal charges can vary widely from case to case.
 
I wonder if she was texting or talking on the phone as she exited the car. Today, when driver have a phone in their hand, nothing else seem to matter.
 
Scatterbrained? What a load of crap. Lousy parents is more like it.

Great parents put their children above all else and NEVER forget them in a car unattended...for ANY length of time. My mother never left me in a car (or any of my siblings). I lived with a woman who had children and she would never forget her children, no matter how busy she was. Never. Heck, I never forgot about them and they were not even my children.

The only people who forget about their children left unattended in a car are lousy parents...period.

And level of 'busyness' is no excuse whatsoever. Your children - especially if they are pre-school - should always be the most important thing in your lives and nothing should be able to make you 'scatterbrained' about them. Not your job, your friends, your health...nothing.

yep, it's a complete ****up. and judging by the 911 call i heard on the news last week from the guy desperately trying to get back to his car by train, it's often a ****up made by exhausted parents which haunts them for the rest of their lives.

i hope that i never do something like that, and i doubt that i will, because i check the stove five times before i leave the house. however, some of us brain fart our way into hell on earth. it sucks, and it makes me sad when it happens.
 
"I'm sorry your honor. It's just that I was so busy and I forgot him in there! With all this work I'm doing, I'm so scatterbrained!"

Judge's most probable response (in his mind), "What a load of ****ing horse-****. You're ass is getting thrown in jail."

Most people's response, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That you try and rationalize for something like this is almost ****ing inferior.

Helix said:
you know, i really doubt that anyone does this even slightly on purpose. we're all so ****ing busy that we get scatterbrained and **** up. it just makes me sick, because i know that there probably won't be a day between now and death that the parent won't think about this and agonize over it. you want to know what hell is like? get exhausted, overworked, and scatterbrained, and **** up like that. it's just a ****ing awful tragedy when this happens, and i hate reading about it.

i don't apologize for posting this. when this **** happens, it ****ing sucks, and it makes me sad. however, i still don't believe that very many people do this on purpose. idiots who leave their kids or dogs in the car while they go into Lowes? sure. exhausted parents whose kid is sleeping in the back seat? yeah, you should have remembered. but i don't believe that it's on purpose nine times out of ten. is that an excuse? no. but these people get to spend the rest of their lives in hell, so yeah, i feel bad about that. if that bothers you, then tough ****.
 
Do you think more children would die from being left in the car than would die from being in the front seat in a serious car crash?
I think car seats should be designed for infants in the front seat. There are other options than the two you demand.
 
I have a dog. He goes with me whenever I can take him. That means when it isn't too hot to leave him in the truck or I leave him with the wife for protection. I always remember that my dog is in the truck. I have never forgotten once. I don't understand how one forgets a child. I can only imagine the physical agony this kid went through.

I also can't believer people try to rationalize it. It is sad what our society will tolerate or empathize with.
 
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