Unattended young kids in car - would you have done anything?

photome

sharnad wrote: »

I didnt realise that reality was paranoia.

thats stretching reality if you think that kids left in cars get taken and killed

Not saying it cant happen, not sure it ever has though

May be enough to scare someone though

sharnad

photome wrote: »

thats stretching reality if you think that kids left in cars get taken and killed

Not saying it cant happen, not sure it ever has though

May be enough to scare someone though

It has children left in cars have been taken and killed, taken and never found, dies due to the heat in the car and dies when other cars crashed into them. If it scares a person to honk of why could happen and makes them take sensible precautions it's worth the scare

custardy

j.e.j. wrote: »

I don't know.. if they've literally just nipped into the shop for something and will be back in 5 minutes, and the car is locked so that the kids can't get out of the car and a stranger couldn't get in, maybe it'd be ok.

I am not a parent, though, and I don't think I'd be comfortable leaving youngsters on their own like that, but I can see it'd be a hassle getting three of them out of the car when you're just nipping in for a pint of milk.

As a parent its a total hassle getting kids out the car for a quick purchase
however thats the way it goes
car fires happen,kids(especially little ones) can be sick,choke etc
its a case of whats ifs being far greater than a few minutes hassle

Sooki

I knew this girl called melanie http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13563940 and her mother many years ago (when i lived in NI), her lovely mum had popped into the shop and left her and her sister in the car, the car went on fire her sister sadly died .

This is story of what can actually happen when a child is left on their own in a car, but heartwarming to see how we'll she is doing.

Sooki

Recently where i live two young children were found in a car in a supermarket car park, it transpired that the childminder had left them in the car while she had gone on a shoplifting spree and subsequently got arrested, and omitted to tell the police about the kids in the car. They had been there for hours before someone reported the abandoned children.

valk_scot

I'll put my hand up, I've left my kids strapped in their car seats to cross the road to the cash point, or to pay for petrol. I'd take one if they were in a baby seat or two if they were able to walk but to take two non-walkers I'd have to get the buggy out the back and a two minute dash in plain sight would turn into a ten minute hassle, with added screaming if I had to wake one or both up.

Two babies and a toddler? That's a double buggy plus carry the third, argh. I can see how it can happen, I'd do the same in some circumstances. I wouldn't walk the length of the car park to run round the supermarket and leave them there, no. There is a finite chance the car would get bumped and it would be far too long to leave them. Fire risk? Hmmm...if they couldn't get out their car seats I'd leave the doors unlocked in the petrol station, that's the place with the highest risk of fire. I would never leave the door unlocked for a mobile toddler but then again, I'd take a mobile toddler with me.

I know none of it is ideal but life sometimes gets in the way...other child needing picked up in two minutes flat, no-one to leave with kids, no milk/no money/no time. I don't belive there are many parents who can honestly say they've never taken even the slightest risk with their child, you'd get to the point you never left them alone in a room in case they hurt themselves. And, after all, most accidents happen in the home and most abuse and cruelty happens at the hands of people the child knows. Leaving your toddlers with Auntie A that's had a couple of extra glasses of wine while babysitting , or Uncle B that goes down to the garden to have a fag leaving the kitchen door open and the pots boiling, or Grannie C that doesn't belive Woofer would hurt a fly or Grandad D that likes cuddles a bit too much..well, walking across the road to the cashpoint in view of your car doesn't seem quite that bad by comparison tbh.

custardy

valk_scot wrote: »

I'll put my hand up, I've left my kids strapped in their car seats to cross the road to the cash point, or to pay for petrol. I'd take one if they were in a baby seat or two if they were able to walk but to take two non-walkers I'd have to get the buggy out the back and a two minute dash in plain sight would turn into a ten minute hassle, with added screaming if I had to wake one or both up.

Two babies and a toddler? That's a double buggy plus carry the third, argh. I can see how it can happen, I'd do the same in some circumstances. I wouldn't walk the length of the car park to run round the supermarket and leave them there, no. There is a finite chance the car would get bumped and it would be far too long to leave them. Fire risk? Hmmm...if they couldn't get out their car seats I'd leave the doors unlocked in the petrol station, that's the place with the highest risk of fire. I would never leave the door unlocked for a mobile toddler but then again, I'd take a mobile toddler with me.

I know none of it is ideal but life sometimes gets in the way...other child needing picked up in two minutes flat, no-one to leave with kids, no milk/no money/no time. I don't belive there are many parents who can honestly say they've never taken even the slightest risk with their child, you'd get to the point you never left them alone in a room in case they hurt themselves. And, after all, most accidents happen in the home and most abuse and cruelty happens at the hands of people the child knows. Leaving your toddlers with Auntie A that's had a couple of extra glasses of wine while babysitting , or Uncle B that goes down to the garden to have a fag leaving the kitchen door open and the pots boiling, or Grannie C that doesn't belive Woofer would hurt a fly or Grandad D that likes cuddles a bit too much..well, walking across the road to the cashpoint in view of your car doesn't seem quite that bad by comparison tbh.

but with petrol/cashpoints you can still at least be in view of the car

notanewuser

FBaby wrote: »

I would have given the mother the benefit of the doubt, being inexperimented and not overly confident that she was doing the right thing, but did it out of desperation and exhaustion. I would have waited next to the car until her return and then as non accusingly as possible would have said that most people would be very concerned by her actions and would probably have reported her. Hopefully her reaction would have been that she realised in the store that she shouldn't have done it and wouldn't do it again...

Wow. Massive assumption there!!!!

yvonne13_2

FBaby wrote: »

I would have given the mother the benefit of the doubt, being inexperimented and not overly confident that she was doing the right thing, but did it out of desperation and exhaustion. I would have waited next to the car until her return and then as non accusingly as possible would have said that most people would be very concerned by her actions and would probably have reported her. Hopefully her reaction would have been that she realised in the store that she shouldn't have done it and wouldn't do it again...

More like she or he would have told you to ******* and mind your own business.
Reporting the matter would be easier and less intimidating as none of us know if it was a man or woman with the children.

pulliptears

sharnad wrote: »

It has children left in cars have been taken and killed, taken and never found, dies due to the heat in the car and dies when other cars crashed into them. If it scares a person to honk of why could happen and makes them take sensible precautions it's worth the scare

Can you please site me some examples of this?