This has gone TOO far.
Women arrested for leaving her 2 year old in the car
Upon reading that title you can't help but gasp and think "Oh, what a terrible mother!" The mother pulled up to a Walmart entrance one evening in December to allow her other children to place money into the Salvation Army's donation kettle. She locked the car and walked 30 feet away with the kids and left her sleeping toddler in the car for no more than a minute. The girl was in the mother's sight and inside a locked car.
I'm so sick of the government telling us how to raise our children. This is NOT child endangerment. This poor woman is being taken to court and is now publicly humiliated because of a community service officer that felt the need to "act" on this problem. Oh yes, good call. It doesn't matter that we have just had another random shooting in this country this week, this time at a Wendy's. Damn those delicious hamburgers! I'm sure we'll hear something from good ol' Hillary about this reinstating that it takes a village to raise our kids. Surely one woman can't possibly handle her children herself. If she would have stayed in the car and let the kids put the money in themselves she probably still would have gotten in trouble. Any child under 14 is required to be within eyesight at all times. A perfect example of damned if you do and damned if you don't. Good thing there weren't any plastic weapons in the car. . Can you imagine if your parents were with you every second and never allowed you any freedoms until you were 14? Talk about shooting spree.
Sending your children out to play in the yard is more dangerous than what happened here. Many times I have had to leave the car for a second to either put a shopping cart back in it's place, drop mail off in mailbox..etc. All of these miniscule tasks are done within a few seconds and ALWAYS with the car locked and within sight. I wouldn't go into a store and shop while my daughter sleeps in the car, but neither did this mother! You can't do everything with a toddler on your hip. I feel for her, she did nothing wrong.
Sometimes it's perfectly acceptable to blink.
3 comments:
Very well said. What in the world happened to common sense, anyway?
Amen, sistah. That's just crazy.
Great post! People over-react to everything these days. We need to calm down and use that common sense thing a little more often.
Oh and that Wendy's line cracked me up :)
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