Originally Posted by Josiegirl:
Please, God, make it stop. 
There is no reason. None. No excuse. None. 
Put your child first. Rewire your brain. Or something. This dear sweet innocent child you have has no reason for being except for both parents, make it count. PLEASE. Nothing on earth is as important as that little breath of life in that car seat. Not your schedule. Your effin cell phone. Your work. If you're exhausted find someone to care for that child while you sleep. Stop working until you get your act together. Call each other to make sure your child, who depends upon you 100%, has been taken proper care of. And yes, even though it should NOT be our responsibility as providers or educators, if your day care child does not show up, follow up on them!!! It might be just enough to stop this terrible tragedy from happening. Even just once. So what if it takes you a minute?? One lousy minute is not enough to upset your whole day or routine. PLEASE change something within your life, to make your child/ren #1. Because it CAN happen to you. God forbid, it can happen to you. Don't let your own living breathing child become another hot car statistic. There will be no take backs. Don't be selfish. Don't be in denial. Plan, be proactive, concentrate and think.
I totally agree with you on this.
Originally Posted by Josiegirl:
It makes you wonder how many of these could be planned. Have you ever thought about that?? It makes me cringe. But it'd certainly be a tough thing to prove if it's an accident or not. It makes me think there should be criminal charges of some kind. Jail maybe not. If it's truly an accident jail wouldn't take away the prison term they've already created for themselves. Community service for years, yes. To teach others to be aware, that it can happen to them. It needs to cost them, whether valuable time or money to invest in programs to make people aware or create more devices for car seats/cars that would become mandatory.
We need more awareness, and who better to help with that. And I'm sure some of them are intentional. Parents have murdered children before. They start reading about hot car deaths, almost never with charges, and hey, that's what I can do.
Accident or not, something should be done. Think about it this way. 2 people get in a fight. It goes out of control and one gets killed. The other person gets charged with manslaughter. It wasn't intentional. It was an accident. Most of the child deaths were also an accident. Why no manslaughter charges there?