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Irresponsible Parents

Posted : 7/3/2006 11:09:28 AM

Because I am my companys receptionist/secretary my office is at the front door and I can easily see outside to the bakery that is across the street. I spend almost all day watching the people that come and go while I work. It gets me so mad when I see mothers and fathers that go in with their small children/toddlers and don#%92t strap them in a car seat. They just put them in the back, or worse yet put them in the front and then strap on a seat belt like ‘yep I am keeping my child safe#%92

Everytime I see something like this it makes me want to go outside and yell at these stupid people. I mean some of these people take off with their child in their lap!! I wish a cop would stop them and give them a huge ticket and take their kids away so they learn to put them in a car seat. How long does it take to strap a kid in?? 10 seconds top, ive counted. My baby is in his car seat even if he kicks and screams and yells (which he usually doesn#%92t because he is used to it). I#%92d rather have him get a sore throat than put him up front and have him die in a car crash.

Why are these people so irresponsible?!?

Julitza

Posted : 7/3/2006 11:13:34 AM

Look, hes happy, and safe:
Why would I change that?

meilani

Posted : 7/3/2006 11:17:52 AM

I see that all the time at the pharmacy. Kids will be bouncing around while the parent is trying to handle business and she/he drives off with the kids still jumping around. Perhaps they're hoping someone will crash into them so their kids can become projectiles and will shoot out the windshield. Osama Bin Mama used to work in the intensive care unit of a hospital and has lost count of how many children, including newborns, who went through the windshield of a car because their moronic parents didn't put them in a carseat or strap them in with a seatbelt.

glenmar

Posted : 7/3/2006 11:20:51 AM

Sadly, a lot of folks still have the attitude that it's gonna happen to someone ELSE, but never to them.

I once fostered a little girl, aged 8. She was developmentally at a 2 year old level. Why? Severe accident where mom didn't bother with a car seat.

When my oldest son, who is 28 now, was born we were not ALLOWED to take him home from the hospital unless we had a carseat. And the importance of carseats was actually drilled into us at our birthing classes.

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Posted : 7/3/2006 11:24:16 AM

Lizzie, are there seat belt laws in Puerto Rico? They're really enforced here, at least in CA. My DH just got a $90 ticket a couple of days ago for forgetting to put on his seat belt, and if they catch you not having the little ones properly secured, they really zap you with a hefty fine.

Joyce

rwbeagles

Posted : 7/3/2006 11:54:26 AM

I have in past, taken down the license plate of the car and called 911. If they do it once they usually do it all the time, and the cops will catch them at some point that day...it needn't be RIGHT then. I especially do this if they are parked and "run in to get something"...

My 5 y/o daughter FREAKED OUT crying the other day...because she sits in a booster and wears a normal seatbelt...we pulled into a parking lot and she unbuckled anticipating the car stopping and getting out...but we changed our mind and pulled out again...

She lost her mind..."MOMMA HELP I'M UNBUCKLED I CANT BUCKLE IT..HELP HELP!"...I mean she literally thought she was going to fly OUT of the car somehow I think, she was terrified! Poor thing...I buckled her back in and reminded her NOT to unbuckle until the car stops and she'd be fine. LOL...THAT'S training eh? And no we've never scared her about it...only told her it is a law, and it is to keep her safe.

Julitza

Posted : 7/3/2006 1:48:35 PM

I love parents like that, so I guess I love you? no really it makes me feel so good when I see a 'big' kid, happily in there carseat.

My boss's daughter is 5 and she loves going in her carseat she will show me over and over how she buckles and unbuckles herself, and she told me theother day 'I can unbuckle myself but only when mommy turns off the car' Smart kid!

I plan on keeping my baby in a carseat until I feel he is big enough to be out (even if its say 30 pounds he will stay in for a bit longer than required) and until he learns that he must stay still with his seatbelt on.

My mother in laws other grandson is 3 and he has a carseat but does not ride in it, he rides standing up in between the two front seats. One day he was standing up and she had to brake and the kid practically flew up front and the only thing she told him was 'i told you to sit down' and the kid just went back to standing up. Hope a cop catches her one day

sillysally

Posted : 7/3/2006 4:01:22 PM

My second cousin was killed as a 4 year old child when the car she was riding in (in the front seat-no seat belt) slammed on the brakes and she flew into the wind shield.

As a child my mom actually taught me to scream when someone pulled away and I was not buckled in yet. Gives people a start, but it is effective.[

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We had a HORRIBLE inciedent a few months ago in a town near me. A mother. had her two year old daughter loose in their SUV, was going WAY too fast on an exit ramp, and flew off the ramp and slammed into a wall. The child was thrown from the SUV into a river beyond the wall, and was killed. Such a needless tragidy.

magilacudy

Posted : 7/4/2006 7:21:13 AM

They just put in a new law here last summer where children 8 and under MUST be in a booster/car seat, or they must be over 60lbs. My oldest is 8 and I just let him this summer out of the booster. My kids are great with remembering their belts.

My sons best friend lives 50 feet from us and his friend was in the car and he said he didn't need a seatbelt because his dad says "it's just down the road" So he was mad because I made him put it on. TOO BAD

I have also called the police before. I saw a mother driving on a major hiway with her child jumping around the back of a van with a large stick of some sort. I pulled next to her at a light and she freaked because I told her her child should be belted in.

We also have law here where you can not leave the hospital without showing the nurse that your child is in the baby seat. Those nurses will not let you leave until you show them. That is wonderful because when i was in there was a man and woman that didn't speak very good english and they didn't have a seat. The dad was soooooo mad that he had to go and buy one.

griffinej5

Posted : 7/4/2006 9:22:22 AM

ORIGINAL: LizzieCollie

I plan on keeping my baby in a carseat until I feel he is big enough to be out (even if its say 30 pounds he will stay in for a bit longer than required) and until he learns that he must stay still with his seatbelt on.

I just wanted to make sure, you don't mean that you plan to keep him in the seat past the weight limits written on it, correct? The seats are only tested up to a certain weight limit, and although i'm sure there is some amount of room for error, we don't know how much, and it would be horrible to make one's child the crash test dummy, and try to test at what limit the seat really does fail.
Also, most children when they are big enough to be out of a harnessed carseat are not big enough to use the seatbelt, and should be in a booster. In addition, it is not really the weight of the child that is the important thing, it is the height of the child, and how he or she fits in the seatbelt, here's a test to see if a child is ready to ride without a booster
[linkhttp://www.carseat.org/Boosters/630.htm]http://www.carseat.org/Boosters/630.htm[/link]

sillysally

Posted : 7/4/2006 10:21:04 AM

ORIGINAL: angeltrudelle

They just put in a new law here last summer where children 8 and under MUST be in a booster/car seat, or they must be over 60lbs. My oldest is 8 and I just let him this summer out of the booster. My kids are great with remembering their belts.

My sons best friend lives 50 feet from us and his friend was in the car and he said he didn't need a seatbelt because his dad says "it's just down the road" So he was mad because I made him put it on. TOO BAD

I have also called the police before. I saw a mother driving on a major hiway with her child jumping around the back of a van with a large stick of some sort. I pulled next to her at a light and she freaked because I told her her child should be belted in.

We also have law here where you can not leave the hospital without showing the nurse that your child is in the baby seat. Those nurses will not let you leave until you show them. That is wonderful because when i was in there was a man and woman that didn't speak very good english and they didn't have a seat. The dad was soooooo mad that he had to go and buy one.

A lot of the hospitals here will actually give you child seats when you leave the hospital.