What is with some parents? I certainly don’t want this blog to come across as me all high and mighty telling parents what I think they should do, but when you see balent disregard for Children’s safety in suburban everyday life, you just feel so overwhelmed with anger you don’t know what else to do.
While driving along the highway today I looked over at the car beside me to a woman casually eating an apple, then when I looked again I noticed some movement in the passenger’s seat, at first I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, so looked again and sure enough her toddler (I estimate 2 years old) was out of his car seat standing with his hands out the window. The mother was just driving along ignoring the child. In the ten minutes I followed alongside I didn’t see her talk to her son, or tell him off, she just looked ahead, eating her apple!
We were both driving at 80 km, I couldn’t believe it. If she had to slam on her breaks for any reason that little boy would have flown into the window.
While talking about the incident on twitter I was flooded with comments about how others see balent disregard for child safety on the daily basis.
How hard is it to keep our children safe?
Belting your children in has been ingrained into us since I was a little girl, I never go anywhere without belting up and the same goes with my child. Why would you teach a child not to belt in? Have you seen what a small crash does to a child that wasn’t belted in............. I can tell you it isn’t pretty and 9 times out of ten the child loses their life. Why would you even tempt it?
I was appalled to also hear about parents taking their children to the beach when we had a tsunami warning. How could you risk your life and your children’s like that? People argue it was a false alarm but isn’t that a little like crying wolf? It may not always be a false alarm and we have warnings to protect us and save human life.
I would have to say these acts of stupidity are basically “neglect”. If you do see these acts of downright neglect with children then I suggest you report them, how else is the message going to get through. If their own parents can’t be responsible then we as responsible humans will have too.
It takes a village to raise a child.
While driving along the highway today I looked over at the car beside me to a woman casually eating an apple, then when I looked again I noticed some movement in the passenger’s seat, at first I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, so looked again and sure enough her toddler (I estimate 2 years old) was out of his car seat standing with his hands out the window. The mother was just driving along ignoring the child. In the ten minutes I followed alongside I didn’t see her talk to her son, or tell him off, she just looked ahead, eating her apple!
We were both driving at 80 km, I couldn’t believe it. If she had to slam on her breaks for any reason that little boy would have flown into the window.
While talking about the incident on twitter I was flooded with comments about how others see balent disregard for child safety on the daily basis.
How hard is it to keep our children safe?
Belting your children in has been ingrained into us since I was a little girl, I never go anywhere without belting up and the same goes with my child. Why would you teach a child not to belt in? Have you seen what a small crash does to a child that wasn’t belted in............. I can tell you it isn’t pretty and 9 times out of ten the child loses their life. Why would you even tempt it?
I was appalled to also hear about parents taking their children to the beach when we had a tsunami warning. How could you risk your life and your children’s like that? People argue it was a false alarm but isn’t that a little like crying wolf? It may not always be a false alarm and we have warnings to protect us and save human life.
I would have to say these acts of stupidity are basically “neglect”. If you do see these acts of downright neglect with children then I suggest you report them, how else is the message going to get through. If their own parents can’t be responsible then we as responsible humans will have too.
It takes a village to raise a child.
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