Posted on 06/11/2018 7:00:54 AM PDT by rickmichaels
People have suggested the driver's left shoe (the one not used for the car's floor pedals), or for women, their handbags.
there’s another reason to make the tech we believe we need for entertaining and protecting us to be used to protect our kids.
Read it slowly and let your lips move...……………..
But also in the 50s, before the superhighways were built and personal communications were not all over the place, people in small communities could leave their babies in strollers OUTSIDE the store near the door while they ran in. People left dogs on leash, unoccupied strollers and unlocked bicycles outside the doors of restaurants for their entire meal.
Now, the tenor of society has changed dramatically. People have more contact with strangers than with friends, family members or close neighbors in an average day. And the rise of lawsuits and regulation and the breakdown of family and religion have contributed to greatly diminished social trust, cooperation, safety and common sense.
I understand; but I also believe that very good, responsible people sometimes make terrible mistakes.
A lot of people are kind of empty inside these days. Finding something to grouse about, especially if it makes them seem superior or as having done an important thing, gives them self-esteem and -validation.
I don't think you understand the human brain at all. There is no safety on the brain. If what you say was true people would never lock their keys in the car. They would never lock themselves out of the house. They would never leave the oven on. etc. etc.
If you have EVER done any of the above and I know you have then you could just as easily leave a child in a car. You are human and you are not an exception.
Was that the guy who was a professor at Irvine? My heart BROKE for that guy. People wanted him in jail for life. He already was. He was 100% sleep deprived and went to work on autopilot, forgetting he had the baby to take to daycare that day.
Oh, and by the way? On my waze when I reach the destination it tells me my kid is in the backseat. EVEN NOW I SIGNED ONTO THAT REMINDER though my kids can get out of the cars just fine alone. Lol. That’s how scary the whole phenomenon is.
You mean a roof turbine like you see on some barns, which functions as a chimney, producing a draft driven by hot air?
I could. No doubt.
That may have been the person; I remember that it was a large family and a horrible story.
“The reality is they were either high or drunk or so distracted that they shouldn’t have been driving a multi ton weapon in the first place”
Utter nonsense,people CAN forget if they are distracted——it’s the human condition.
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Notice I included distracted
If you are so distracted you don’t remember your child you are too distracted to be behind the wheel of a car
I drove distracted for YEARS,in a car full of kids that I had NOT forgotten,they WERE the distraction.:-)
That said,people are human——bad things can happen.
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The problem really escalated when the government MANDATED airbags, the MANDATED you had to leave your kid OUT-OF-SIGHT in the back seat, because the airbag would kill them.
You are right on. But, protecting parental bonding is still best first rung solution.
When I was much younger, I was taking care of my Grandmother while she was bedridden and dying. I had very little help with her care, and was spoon-feeding her many times per day; doing laundry/changing diapers and bedding several times per day; waking up at all hours to tend to her, etc. - while also dealing with the drawn-out emotional pain of losing her.
One day I started something to boil on the stove, when I realized I had forgotten something that she needed at the store. I ran out and drove to the store, forgetting the pan on the fire.
Fortunately the store wasn’t far and it didn’t take me too long; when I came back, the pan was almost empty and beginning to scorch. I have always cringed when I’ve remembered that, and what may have happened.
I assure you that I was not on drugs or drunk; but I was definitely overstressed, which has been the case with some of the people in the situations we are discussing.
I am not excusing the people who have selfishly disregarded their children while they went off to have ‘fun’; but you and some others here are painting the people who have experienced this tragedy with too broad a brush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warschauer
Still a professor at Irvine. “Following the tragic event, Warschauer became active in groups educating parents about children’s safety in and around cars.[4] He and his wife went on to have three subsequent children.”
Please note I included distracted....which you were. And while you didn’t end up in a wreck you certainly could have because your focus was not on your driving
Thanks. He seemed like a good guy and it seemed like an act a good guy might well be capable of without super focus and with a loss of sleep.
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