Would you leave your child in a car alone?

silvercar

I remember school runs where mum would pick up all the children who lived in the road. Get home, park outside our house, open the back door of the car and any number of kids (8 if all had been at school) would pile out. No seatbelts, not enough seats for all of us, standing room only. No one was allowed to sit in the front as that was deemed "dangerous". Kids would then make their own way along the road to their respective houses. Would have been early 70s.

Jagraf

Most decisions have an element of risk. I suppose decisions need to be made on what it would "sound" like if something did happen and as a parent you were responsible for that Childs safety (not talking about petrol per se but any decision).

xHannahx

lush_walrus wrote: »

You have to take a leap of faith. I always grabbed the baby and toddler got them in the house into the living room with the baby gate up. Closed the front door just incase today was the day they learnt to get out of the gate. Then ran the bags to the house until all was outside the door. Opened the door and took them all inside.

To be fair I could park on our drive but found it just the same to park on the road outside our house.

Is leaving them alone in the house potentially more dangerous than leaving in the car?
Majority of injuries to children happen in the house.
I wouldnt do either, but probably think they are safer strapped in the car than running round a room in the house unattended,

lush_walrus

xHannahx wrote: »

Is leaving them alone in the house potentially more dangerous than leaving in the car?
Majority of injuries to children happen in the house.
I would do either, but probably think they are safer strapped in the car than running round a room in the house unattended,

Don't know to be honest but to me it is. I've always been particularly worried about a strapped in child not being able to get out if say something did happen in the car.

I think I see the house as safer as the dangers are from the child itself rather than something external (such as a hand break fail or another car hitting or it blowing up).

My daughters always stood at the gate shouting to be let out if I closed them in a room somehow it distracted them to not actually run around (don't get me wrong they certainly did run around the rest of the time!). A living room to me is always quite a safe room no stairs nothing that can start a fire no wires hanging around to tie around their necks.

As I say for me I've always had a fear of locking a child in a car and if something freak happened they wouldn't be able to get out and would be trapped in their car seat strapped in next to a child locked door. For me a car equals a danger for a child bigger than a room in a house (but then I have been in a beetle years back that broke into flames on a motorway so that probably influences me). I could well be wrong, I personally leave nothing that can't operate a door on its own in a car on its own.