The woman was given a warning about leaving her baby in the car.
She continued to leave her baby in the car. This is not the first time.
Perhaps taking the attitude of “Oh well, a baby died but it’s the government’s fault.” will exaserbate it.
People on this thread have talked about habits. Long after my children were out of carseats, when I turned that car off I was reaching for the carseat lock. But my kids are a high priority for me.
Society has made them low priority.
Why do I get the sense that, for you and some others here, this is more about tooting your own horn about your parenting skills, than it is about the issue at hand?
After all, the more we dwell on the miscues of others, the better we look, huh?
True, but she left her for a short time each time. I want to know what should be done just for those warnings where nothing ultimately happened. Do you take the mother/father away from the children, throw them in jail, and send the kids to foster homes?
And in any case, initially, this wasn’t a discussion about people who did it repeatedly. As usual, people were bashing her just for doing it this once - not knowing she’s “done it before”. This is typical on FR - outrage that someone who’s never done it before that we know of is “let to walk” on an accident. But what is the alternative?
It’s a good idea to make habits like that. Maybe people when they start such things should write down on a post-it what actions they should take. Then use it to learn new habits.
Of course, this woman’s problem started when she forgot to take the girl to the sitter - not because she forgot to unstrap her. Still, a post-it about her NORMAL operations might have helped her stay in the groove.
“The woman was given a warning about leaving her baby in the car.
She continued to leave her baby in the car. This is not the first time.”
I think you are mixing 2 issues into one.
The first issue...this woman has left her child in the car in the past, apprantly for a few minutes or up to 15 minutes.
In these episodes she knew her child was in there and did return after some period of time.
Others found this disturbing, and she was warned.
second issue...this particular morning was different.
She forgot the child was there.
It was not (allegedly) a case of “Oh -she can sit there for 15 minutes and will be all right”
She totally forgot she was there at all.
This is not a defense - I’m just pointing out the difference in her state of mind that morning as opposed to the other episodes.