You’re right. Things happen all the time that are out of our control. But this isn’t one of those times. This is something that someone chooses to do because it is easier for them. Of course a child cannot be watched every second of every day, but why add a danger into their lives that is avoidable. I let my kids run in the house, but I don’t hand them each a pair of scissors before they take off through the hallways. I don’t understand how any reasonable person can think that it is ok to leave a 4 year old alone in a parking lot.
There are lots of parking lots in lots of different places in the world. Some I wouldn’t send anyone into who isn’t in an armored vehicle. But this doesn’t mean I buy a tank. Instead, I opt not to drive through Detroit. Don’t lump all parking lots together.
Let me ask you a question: Were you ever left alone in a car in a parking lot?
“I don’t understand how any reasonable person can think that it is ok to leave a 4 year old alone in a parking lot.”
Maybe because most of us were left alone in parking lots as children, and we turned out just fine.
Do you know how much hell has been unleashed into the lives of those children, because a self-righteous pig-fornicator decided they had to call the cops and stay there until the mother was arrested “for the children”?
Do you even recognize that they were hurt badly by the state intruding into their lives?
Do you know how much in lawyer’s fees, and that the mother has to live in mortal terror now, because now she is recognized as an “irresponsible parent” to the point of having been arrested?
Likely not. Because feelgood, because for the children.
I give all my kids two pair of scissors and a lightning rod before sending them out to run naked through the forest in a thunderstorm. We also store all of our silverware in light sockets to teach kids about electricity. I don’t allow bb guns though—they are too dangerous—all my kids are given real .22s at age six so they can learn that guns are not toys.