I didn’t treat the incident with your MIL as if it was nothing at all. I was using it to prove a point. Accidents happen. Thankfully (I am assuming) no great harm came to your baby and you were able to learn from the situation(don’t let Nana drive the baby).
My evaluation of the situation has nothing to do with my attitude but everything to do with common sense and logic. For there never to be an accident, people would have to be perfect and always functioning at 100%. Since that is not reality, we know that sometimes there will be accidents. Sometimes (more often than reported) women really do take the lives of their children. Sometimes though, women (and men) have to continue going about their daily tasks while they are sleep deprived, hormonal, irrational even.
The kind of carseat we have is immaterial. The fact is that because he is unable to get the car seat in properly he has given the task to me. He couldn’t have forseen the events that would unfold when he put the seat in the correct location. I was unaware that the carseat was not seatbelted in because my daughter was older and able to climb in and fasten her own straps. I checked the straps and we were on our way. The “I’m human” comment was meant to show that sometimes we forget. I have been parenting three children for 12 years and one time I failed to have my daughters car seat strapped in. I am thankful that we didn’t have a car wreck and we learned from our mistake.
I called you sanctimonious because you have made it clear that you expect perfection in childrearing. Not possible but you are obviously perfect despite the one slip up with Nana.
Have a nice night. I am signing off because hubby is home from his late night visitation to the hospital and I was only up waiting for his safe return.
Not at all. What I expect is not to choke on hyperbole about "perfection" from a poster projecting themselves into a clear case of negligence, and trying to mitigate it.