Slow down and count kids before you drive off. I have 5.
This has happened several times in our area, sometimes with horrible consequences.
I think some people are just very irresponsible and thoughtless (a while back, a Maryland woman left her child in the car while she gambled at a casino for eight hours.) With others, I think the pace of modern life is just so hectic and distracting that otherwise good people become overloaded and make mistakes.
-JT
One time, but thankfully only once, we took off in the van and then took the head count. Found we had left 2 of our 9 back at the house.
Conclusion: do the headcount before you pull out.
Sometimes that doesn't work either...
Wife and I have six children, years ago we were leaving Church and I did a head count 1, 2 ,3 ,4, 5, 6 little heads in the minivan...Check...off we go..
Unbeknownst to my wife and I one of my kids invited a friend over that day that made the headcount correct...
Yup, we left our youngest daughter at church...
Youth Pastor dropped her off about a half an hour later...