Another child left in car

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I am also someone who deliberately created “checking” behaviors like putting the purse next to the babyseat, but if you don’t understand how motor memory works, it may never have occurred to this mom that your brain can do that to you.

I do that with the dogs now-I have to ritually put eyes on them and say “be good, watch the house” to make sure they’re in their beds before I leave . It’s a little OCD, but the non-linear hamster wheel/juggling act/three ring circus/Indy 500 that is my brain has so much stuff occupying it that I need to create “checks” to make sure mundane things are done. I’ve always been like that.

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I was in the middle of teaching my first class yesterday when I suddenly stopped in my tracks panicked that I had left the dog in the backyard instead of letting her back in before leaving the house. Thankfully I had remembered but I couldn’t for the life of me tell for sure without going home (which I didn’t).

Consequences of dead child versus cold wet dog are of course not comparable but I have sympathy.

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hmm, another child in Mississippi dies in a hot a car, yet two different outcomes

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/05/mississippi_dad_charged_with_m.html

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Things that make you go “hmmmmmm”, partyof 5…

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I asked Mr R about this because he works at a day care center. They do call parents if they’re more than a half hour after their scheduled drop off time with no call or explanation for the tardiness. He said it takes one staff member less than 10 minutes to call all the parents of missing kids and it’s 10 minutes well spent if it saves even one life. (So far, no one has ever forgotten their child in a car.)

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The inconsistency is astounding. They both should be charged with negligence. Maybe there is more to the story, but how do you charge him with murder and he went to work and left the kid in the car, but the woman who went to work, left the kid, drove to the daycare and still didnt notice the kid off with no charges?

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A daycare is a very busy place with many parents dropping off at a variety of times/days. There’s no way they should be made responsible for something like that. Put your purse/ briefcase in the back seat… Problem solved.