Abit GobSmacked!....Or Is It Me?

kittykat

Michaela wrote:

I have seen childminders up my school, parked up with other peoples children in her car whilst she goes into the shop, unbelievable.

My Nanny was actually quite shocked when I came home from work and 'escorted' her out of the door. My friend called me at work and told me what had happened - and on asking around I found it was not the first time. Someone else had seen her a couple of days earlier in shop in town with my youngest in the car outside. She will really struggle to ever work in childcare again! Her contract actually stated that leaving any of the children unattended at any time was gross misconduct - she should have read it!
Shame parents don't have a similar contract really!!!!!:rotfl:

mustafa_say_ving

Michaela wrote:

Well, I am one of those people who make them wait behind me whist I get DD out of her chair, DS 8 to come with me, then spend a couple of minutes putting her back in her chair. Their safety means everything to me.

:T :T :T ......I would much rather wait, than see anyone leave their children unattended.


The thing that really gets my back up though, is seeing cars drive past with loads of kids in the back unstrapped, and the adults in the front all safe and cosy with their seatbelts on:mad:

BrokeBrunette

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

Hey Guys:D

Is it me just being paranoid
PP
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no Penny Pincher, you're not being paranoid. You're doing what every responsible parent should do, and be horrified at anybody stupid enough to leave their baby/children unattended in a parked car on the street.

They must be completely mad. Can you imagine how they would feel if a car smashed into their car, or it caught alight, or a car thief broke in - come to think of it any number of possible nightmare situations that could easily happen and have already been described in this thread?

I'd rather hear my baby crying because I've woken him/her up to bring them indoors to the safety of their home, rather than be attending their funeral, knowing it was all my stupid fault!!!! How on earth would they ever live with themselves. I feel quite sick thinking about it actually.

lottee

Add me to your list, I also agree with you penny pincher! Ok, so as someone else mentioned, a private driveway - car in view for a short time, acceptable. Parked car in a street or left in a car park whilst shopping, not acceptable!

I have to admit though, I am normally a 'pay at pump' kinda' girl anyway, but what about getting cash out? I sometimes park up outside the cashpoint and get cash out - but I literally park in a space next to the cash machine. Is that bad too?

Sarahsaver

Absolutely no way!!! People are careful not to leave phones, wallets etc on the seat of a parked car. Children are infinitely more valuable. I am sure someone had their car stolen once, in leicestershire, with a sleeping baby in it.
I bet if it was a dog left in a car someone would have reported it.

moggins

I swear people should have to take a test and get a licence before they are allowed to have children! PP you were completely right. I'm afraid me with my big mouth I would have said something to her and worried about the consequences later.

liz.._4

Pennypincher I'm right behind you on this one, they should never leave the kids unattended in a car, anything could happen. If it had been hot weather the kids could have died of overheating in a short space of time.

I agree it is difficult to approach people to comment on their child rearing styles, especially after the event. Good luck talking to them about it, I don't envy you.

JonathanA

Kittykat - "Her contract actually stated that leaving any of the children unattended at any time was gross misconduct - she should have read it!
Shame parents don't have a similar contract really!!!!!"

From the comments on here, parents need the contract too by the sound of things (me included as per my previous post). I couldn't ever leave the kids in the car on a main road though - petrol stations if the kids are with me I use pay at pump & now they're older (6&3) I'd never leave them in the car anyway, they're older and more likely to fiddle with things they shouldn't - like the handbrake....

We used to take my eldest daugher out in the car sometimes to get her to go to sleep - usually this was about midnight after lots of prior attempts, and I'm sure most people have done this too - but this was when she was of an age where her car seat wasn't fixed, so we could lift her out and take her in the house & then transfer her to a cot whilst still sleeping.

Woby_Tide

OK, I'll buck the trend, in certain circumstances we've quite happily left our boy asleep in the car. Only at places we know(mostly home and at relatives houses with off road parking) and where one of us has a view of the vehicle all the time. That said as soon as the engine stops he normally wakes within 5 minutes or so as the 'hum' has stopped which is normally what sends him to sleep.

I'm surprised some people get out of the house the amount of 'nightmare scenarios' that could befall them by leaving the house. I'd also think statistically you're more likely to have a car plough into you whilst you are out and about on the roads than sat at home so preventing that sort of situation would probably involve never taking a child in the car in the first place, unless my being in the same car suddenly improves the safety rating of a car?

*erects flame shield*

AndrewSmith

If Ihave the kids in the car I use the 'pay at pump' in tescos. Solves the dilemma then.

People who leave their kids in cars in the street or car park should be bloody well flogged and chained up in a locked greenhouse with no drink or toilet to see how they like it.

Irresponsible idiots.