Where you store your treasure so also is your heart.
She left a 3 year old in a car while she was in the store running errands? And the other kids too?
I am a baby boomer and came from a large family; most of my friends from back then came from families with at least three or four children. To say that things were more lax back then when it came to child care would be a gross understatement. Forgetting a kid somewhere would certainly not have made the news.
When I asked my dad if my 5 year old brother and I could use a can of gas to burn some ant piles or ride horses into town to get ice cream cones... he wouldn’t tell us “no”, or “be careful”, my dad would say, “Remember if something happens to you... your mom and I will just make another one that looks just like you.”
It wasn’t that he didn’t love us or was a bad parent; they figured that after getting hurt a few times we would learn to be more careful. We did get injured fairly seriously on some occasions and we did learn to be careful without a lot of pestering.