Top 10 Reasons Not to Leave Your Kids Alone in the Car

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Top 10 Reasons Not to Leave Your Kids Alone in the Car

Posted on 01 17, 2008 under Current Events by foodad | Comments

To the mother of the baby who left her kid in the car. You are lucky. I have to ask you, what errand was so important that you make completing it a higher priority than the well-being of your 1 year old? Range Rovers by Land Rover are indeed awesome cars, but unless yours is uber customized, they do not have built in isolettes which would regulate the temperature of an infant, always sensing when they need a little heat. If your reasoning was “It was too cold outside for the baby”, then you are a Darwin awards candidate. Your car does not maintain heat. It was off. They also do not change diapers, nor do they gavage milk.

You are lucky that the operator of the parking garage and a Bostonnow.com employee care about kids. They looked out for your motionless baby. You could have been hit by a bus, kidnapped or even killed during your errand. They were willing to assume the worst in order to make sure that your baby was cared for in the event that something had gone awry.

What mission were you on that you would risk the well-being of an innocent incapable of self care? You must have found the hidde base of Osama bin-Laden and needed to report it to the authorities. Maybe you needed to deliver urgent medication to an RSV infested area and could not take the baby in for fear of her contracting the potentially deadly virus. On the surface it looks a lot like laziness.

1. Something could happen to you and you are leaving the fate of your kids up for grabs.

2. Someone could get into the car and kidnap the kids.

3. If it is cold outside and you are delayed your kids could get frostbite or worse. If it is warm/hot outside they could be baked alive.

4. Someone could steal the car.

5. If the car has a lighter, the kids could set themselves on fire. (Ask Oprah)

6. The kids could move the car by disengaging the parking brake and throwing the car into neutral and cause an accident.

7. The kids could leave the car and go into traffic or into the custody of a stranger.

8. Someone could hit the car and hurt the kids.

9. The kids could start the car and go for a joy ride.

10. It classifies you “a lazy turd”.