Some people should not be parents!

[Sheila]

Convict me now because I often have my kids out "past" their bedtime. Can't be helped, I work full time, sometimes after work and football practice and swimming lessons, that's the only time I have left to go to the grocery store to get them milk and bread. Yes, they are tired and crabby and sometimes I yell at them, but hey, I'm tired to. Lead me to the jail.

Until you can walk in someone else's shoes, I would be very careful about assuming a sutiuation.

Sorry for the typos. My boss is coming and I'm trying to type fast.

If we were all convicted for that. I'd be doing 20 to life! I took my daughter all the way to work with me one day because I forgot to drop her off at the babysitters house!!! :shock: I didn' t leave her in the car though!

 

[Biff]

BWHA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

Way to run some well needed interference GTTBM!!!!!!!!! OMG still laughing!!!!!

If we were all convicted for that. I'd be doing 20 to life! I took my daughter all the way to work with me one day because I forgot to drop her off at the babysitters house!!! :shock: I didn' t leave her in the car though!

 

[ktschris]

If we were all convicted for that. I'd be doing 20 to life! I took my daughter all the way to work with me one day because I forgot to drop her off at the babysitters house!!! :shock: I didn' t leave her in the car though!

I've done that too. I have a different sitter on Fridays. She lives on my way to work, my daughter was asleep, I guess I was too because I just passed the sitters exit up and kept on driving all the way to work!!
Boy, did I feel like a dumbass when I got there!

 

[Jdarg]

I almost left kate on the counter at the Post office. Thank God I was only a few steps away when my friend said "Uh, Jen, THE BABY????" Unfortunately the memory doesn't get any better.

 

[Biff]

:rofl:

Okay some one start a new thread:

I ALMOST LEFT MY SON/DAUGHTER AT THE _______________

BEFORE ________________ TOLD ME/I DROVE OFF .......

Really, I admire all of you parents out there. It truly is one of lifes most difficult/rewarding jobs.

 

[ktmeadows]

If we were all convicted for that. I'd be doing 20 to life! I took my daughter all the way to work with me one day because I forgot to drop her off at the babysitters house!!! :shock: I didn' t leave her in the car though!

That very situation happened here last summer, but the dad DID forget about the baby and DID leave her in the car! Apparently the baby was sleeping and the dad parked his car and went up to his office. Someone called the police and they got the baby out. I can't remember all the details, but thankfully someone noticed before something really bad happened. :shock:

 

[Sheila]

I've done that too. I have a different sitter on Fridays. She lives on my way to work, my daughter was asleep, I guess I was too because I just passed the sitters exit up and kept on driving all the way to work!!
Boy, did I feel like a dumbass when I got there!

I don't even have the sleep card to play. She was 3 and jabbered all the way to my office. It wasn't until I parked the car that she finally said, "Mommy where are we at. It was a longer way to "Miss Karen's" house today"! I'd like to say I had a hard time explaining it to my boss. She simply said, " over shoot the babysitters house today?"

 

[peapod1980]

Jerks come in all shapes, sizes, colors, etc.

Don't believe I made a racist comment here. When a city is 61% one ethnicity, 34% another, and 5% mixed, which is our case here, then most of what is seen here like that involves the higher percentage of course. I have yet to see a white child here slapped across the back of the head or face because of crying and being tired or hungry and being called a f*ing bastard. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I have never seen it. On occasion I have seen one's leg popped for misbehaving, which is as it should be. But when a child is little and is out late past what I consider their bedtime, it's not acceptable. They could go do their shopping earlier and could leave that little child at home with someone instead of dragging them out when it is naptime or bedtime. And anyway, this all has to do with different types of neglect and abuse, because leaving your child locked up in a car is both neglect and abuse also, and a small child being slapped across the head or face and called the above mentioned name is neglect also, and abuse, regardless of who they are.

And some people would classify "popping" a child's leg as abuse also; let's be honest here, a lot of parents think hitting is hitting, whether you classify it as slapping, popping, smacking, whatever. I mean, this is wide open to interpretation and subjectivity, too, isn't it? Your "as it should be" might very well be my "no way, no how."
ktschris, I had no idea you were so unfit! I'll visit you, though, not to worry. ;-)

 

[ktschris]

Thanks Pea...maybe you could bake me a penis cake with a file in it!

 

[Lady D]

Had a good example tonight in the grocery store, Kroger, to be exact. Woman with two toddlers in the basket. Looked to be around 3 and 4 years old. The little girl started to stand and the mother first thing reached out and smacked her leg and told her to sit down. She said she was going to tell her dad, the woman's response, go ahead and tell your dad, I'll hit you again. Every eye around that register was on her, needless to say. But as for the initial problem of children being left in hot vehicles. Two or three children have died here over the past couple of years, two babies, and one toddler. Two left all day in a daycare van after being overlooked by someone on the van that is supposed to do a walk through at the end of the day. And one man last year here went to his job at Central North Church, forgot that he had his baby daughter in the car, forgot to drop her at the babysitter. Got out at church, went in and stayed several hours while the baby roasted in the back of his car. Needless to say they charged him with neglect and her death, I believe he stood trial, do not know whether he is in jail or not now, but I would think he has been punished enough, afterall, he is having to live with the guilt of what happened.