Wireless Monitor For When Baby Falls Asleep In Car?

notanewuser

moomoomama27 wrote: »

A cot doesn't catch fire
A car won't crash into a cot
It's unlikely anyone would spot a child in a cot and take them from a driveway!

It's not about the not being able to see them, it's about the safety of a car AND not being able to get yo the car quick enough to prevent an accident.

My DD never ever napped in her cot. For one, she could practically pole vault out of it by 13 months, even in a sleeping bag.

I don't think anyone posting on this thread has said they THEY have had a car catch fire themselves. It really isn't a common occurrence.

My best friend is a social worker. She wouldn't even raise an eyebrow

mynameisclare

notanewuser wrote: »

I don't think anyone posting on this thread has said they THEY have had a car catch fire themselves. It really isn't a common occurrence.

One of our neighbours' cars caught fire (and was quickly destroyed) right outside our house. I believe it overheated; they had only returned home from a longish journey a few minutes before.

moomoomama27

notanewuser wrote: »

My DD never ever napped in her cot. For one, she could practically pole vault out of it by 13 months, even in a sleeping bag.

I don't think anyone posting on this thread has said they THEY have had a car catch fire themselves. It really isn't a common occurrence.

My best friend is a social worker. She wouldn't even raise an eyebrow

That last line sadly doesn't surprise me, hence the widely publicised failing in children's services. Thankfully with updated safeguarding training, these types of reports will flag up intervention from child services, and rightly so.

You're making this far too personal to you. Just because your child didn't sleep in a cot without getting out doesn't make it ok to leave them sleeping in car! Just because no one on this thread (limited numbers) haven't had a personal eerie nice for snot mean it doesn't happen.

In mine and many others opinion, it is wrong. You make your choices as a parent, if it feels safe and/or you get away without an incident then that's your business, but it's not widely accepted as the correct thing to do, and if reported you will face a visit and scrutiny, if you are fortunate enough to live in an area with a good children services department.

notanewuser

moomoomama27 wrote: »

That last line sadly doesn't surprise me, hence the widely publicised failing in children's services. Thankfully with updated safeguarding training, these types of reports will flag up intervention from child services, and rightly so.

She works for a children's charity helping parents. I think she'd agree that its noone's business but the parents.

plumpmouse

moomoomama27 wrote: »

It speaks volumes the defensiveness on this thread. If you think you are doing the right thing, then go ahead. Why justify your need to leave your child alone in a car if it's not risky? Only you would have to live with any if the consequences of your actions.

My replies to you aren't defensive of anything. In my first post on this thread I said I had never left my children in my car on their own, for me it was never something I wanted to do.

My replies to your posts are more a frustration by people thinking the world is black and white with no in between and the paranoid state we have of children being snatched.

A friend of mine had her house gutted rapidly by fire thankfully no one was home at the time. I imagine more children die in house fires than car fires on static cars on the drive.

We all live with the consequences of our parenting from small issues to large. A friend's daughter broke her arm falling from . A slide. What if she bumped her head? Should we avoid slides as potentially a child could die falling from one?

jayII

notanewuser wrote: »

My DD never ever napped in her cot. For one, she could practically pole vault out of it by 13 months, even in a sleeping bag.

I don't think anyone posting on this thread has said they THEY have had a car catch fire themselves. It really isn't a common occurrence.

My best friend is a social worker. She wouldn't even raise an eyebrow

Most child protection social workers are very good at their job. Some, unfortunately are less good at it, or are even really bad at it and probably 'wouldn't raise an eyebrow'. There are good and bad people in every work area. That doesn't mean we should be led by them.

moomoomama27

notanewuser wrote: »

She works for a children's charity helping parents. I think she'd agree that its noone's business but the parents.

So not a social worker then? Shocking to me that her job is primarily safeguarding yet she would fail to point out unsafe practise. Hopefully this is to prove a point rather than a real person! Ill take it with a pinch of salt, although as said there are many failing individuals within a wide range of children's services, if true, you have proved my point!

jayII

notanewuser wrote: »

She works for a children's charity helping parents. I think she'd agree that its noone's business but the parents.

She may be excellent at her job, or she may be dreadful. Who knows. No workplace is immune from either type of employee.

notanewuser

moomoomama27 wrote: »

So not a social worker then? Shocking to me that her job is primarily safeguarding yet she would fail to point out unsafe practise. Hopefully this is to prove a point rather than a real person! Ill take it with a pinch of salt, although as said there are many failing individuals within a wide range of children's services, if true, you have proved my point!

I think you're going totally OTT now.

Are you telling me that my child being somewhere where I know she's likely to climb out, fall and knock herself out is preferable to her being where I can see her?

moomoomama27

notanewuser wrote: »

I think you're going totally OTT now.

Are you telling me that my child being somewhere where I know she's likely to climb out, fall and knock herself out is preferable to her being where I can see her?

I've never been talking about you , you have made it about you! You are being defensive!

My comments were that it is wrong to leave a child. I have pointed out, in my personal and professional opinion, why.

I have pointed out that while your child may climb out of it's cot, many won't. If you think your child is safer sleeping in a car, than in a bed, frankly there's nothing I can say on any level that would make you see that it is not.

I don't feel it OTT to state that the majority of professionals working in safeguarding children would accept that leaving a child alone in a car was ok, they would not. Certainly if told they should be concerned. As I, and another person pointed out, just because a social worker, or as it transpired, a childrens charity worker wouldn't raise an eyebrow doesn't make it ok. It just highlights the obvious weak links within that profession!