[cajungirl]

I am a devoted Mom and left my youngest at age two weeks in a restaurant. We had put her seat on the floor, she was sleepiing and we left with the two older girls and someone from the restaurant came chasing us down the street.

I felt like Joan Crawford!!

[ican'tbelieveit]

Thank you for your honesty. It is wonderful to see some normal people on this site, since so many are holier than thou.

I was going to use my example of living close to one of the facilities where I work. There are many times when I am on my way home and I drive right past the entrance to my house because my pattern is to go to work, or vice versa. When driving, you do get distracted.

It is pretty easy to see how this could happen. One parent probably put the child in the car; since the other parent didn’t do it, and thought parent #1 was taking the child to daycare, didn’t even realize the child was in the car.

Lives too busy is probably the biggest problem here.

[Alouette]

My son has a vivid memory of his sister, then 3 years old, (he was 6) being left in a hot car. I have no recollection of this ever happening (she is 20 years old now), but he insists that she was lost, we searched the house for her, and finally found her in the car. He said, “she was fainting and you put her in the bathtub to revive her.”

This story sounded very weird to me. My daughter had no memory of it, but my older daughter (who was 9 years old at the time) explained that the youngest snitched a bag of chocolate cookies from the grocery bag, and then went to hide in the car while she ate them. She fell asleep in the car, and was found covered in chocolate which is why we had to put her in the bathtub.

[radiohead]

I felt like Joan Crawford!!

At least you only felt like her. My son says I am her. : )

[poindexter]

We have three kids in three schools. One day I got to my middle daughter's school and found that I'd left her at home.

In the morning the kids and I are often back and forth from the house to the car several times each. This time, she was in the house when we rolled out.

I'm surprised it's only happened once!

[cherry]

been there,done something similar...except mine was when I had my baby in a little car seat in the grocery basket....I pushed the basket thru next to the teller, and she put the bag of groceries on the counter and off I went...til I got to the door and my husband in the car was giving me that questioning and panic look....

and I am the type of person who could never shut our bedroom door...to this day...because I wanted to be able to hear the kids....

[Ignatz]

I felt like Joan Crawford!!

Careful what you reveal!
Because of your experience, some on this thread are disgusted that you were allowed to procreate.

Not me, I was being sarcastic.