Posted on 09/06/2007 6:47:06 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Well, somebody does. Our schools were closed for two days last winter because it was "too cold". Ugh!
GOOD ONE~!
Ok photoshoppers here- we need photo of a baby with warning labels posted all over her
They didn't need to be reminded.
A witness saw them WAVING GOODBYE to the child as they walked towards the store. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891632/posts
so sad that someone needs to make a device to remind parents their child is in the carseat in the car alone where they left them.
I was a working mom for a very short time after my first son was born and I can’t figure out how I could have ever forgotten him. Never forgot my youngest son either. I just don’t get it!
“Maybe I’m a cynic, but I believe in every case the child was left in the car deliberately.”
most of the cases I’ve read about, there was an issue with dropping off the child at daycare
I remember one dad was asked by his sick wife to drop off the baby and she put the child in the car.
There was some confusion as to whether he heard her, and I think if he had been the one to load the baby things may have turned out differently.
Needless to say...he drove to work and didn’t realize anything was wrong until he got the call from his wife “did you drop off the baby?”
There was a thread recently about 2 doctors who had their baby with them and there was confusion about which one would take the child to daycare.
I think people are just overly busy and if they’re asked to do something that is out of their ordinary routine, and communication is poor - the poor baby gets forgotten.
Just an aside, but this is a perfect example of reporters not knowing squat about even basic science. Water holds more heat than air at the same temperature, and water transfers more of that heat to skin in a given period of time. Metal holds even more, which is why you can quickly burn your hand on metal that is 100 degrees F, but air at 100 degrees F is just uncomfortable (and dehydrating over time, of course). In other words, this is a ridiculous comparison.
My boys went and got into our car to play when it was in the garage in 100 degree heat. I was in the shower. When I got out and realized where they were they got in such big trouble.
Needless to say they now realize the car is not a place to play hide and go seek in!
Bad writing aside, who the heck needs a reminder that their kid is in the car?
Even when he was asleep, I never forgot once that my son was in the car. There's a sense of him, a presence. Same as anyone else.
Do these people not feel it?
Is he not in your mind, all the time? Sure you talk about other things, you listen to the radio, you try to read the map, but how can you forget?
On trips, we would tag-team at the service station - one would hit the rest room, the other stay with the baby. Even without the heat issue, I wouldn't leave him alone in a car.
And I wonder if anybody who would "forget", would remember to buy such a device anyway?
It's all too damn easy for some people to treat their kids as a possession.
Include it with the child safety seat, since those are required by law. It shouldn't really add that much to the expense of the seat.
Shoot, I had my son in the front seat giving him a bottle while driving, more than once. If you have to get somewhere, the last thing you need is a screaming hungry baby facing rearward in the back seat where you can’t get to him. That happened to me once when he was just a few weeks old and I had to take my mom to the airport. On the way home I got caught on the freeway with him screaming, and there was nowhere for me to pull over and feed him. I decided right then that putting a newborn in the back seat facing backwards was just dumb.
An utterly irrelevant comparison.
There was an article a couple of months ago that showed that the year putting children in car seats in the back became mandatory, the annual number of these deaths tripled, and stayed at the same rate year after year since.
So yes, it appears that about 2/3 of the time, this happens because the child is out of sight and people just forget.
Nope. I wouldn't put it in my car at all except perhaps once or twice for a specific special occassion. More likely I'd put it in a plastic container and bury it.
Who can resist watching a sleeping child anyway?
I tend to watch nearby traffic instead. :)
When I was a kid, it wasn't an issue to roll down the windows...and without electronic windows, I could do it myself with the car on or off.
Right, but I understood it to mean it was connected somehow to the buckle in the kid/baby seat.
To add a comment about the reporter, someone else explained it well, the difference between temperature and heat transfer. Truth is, most people dont fully understand, but they do have a gut feeling for it, its why a piece of metal, or a glass of water at room temperature always feels colder than the temperature of the air (unless room temp is higher than body temp).
Another comment, sure, its irresponsible, but stuff like this DOES happen, and sometimes it happens to decent people. Although like someone else pointed out, a product marketed to prevent such a thing, would surely be the subject of a law suit if it in anyway failed to prevent such a horrible thing..
Water generally holds more heat than metal. Metal just conducts heat better. Your comparison of water to air is apt.
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