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I Will Always Remember What Is Important To Me

Another dead child dying in a car
If you need to put your cell phone in your back seat to remember you have a child
Not only should you not be a parent
It should be mandatory that you never have another one

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MaryJanine · 61-69, F

Cherokee Patti - one or a dozen, it doesn't matter. Sure, I feel badly about the statistics, too, but how many parents give you the feeble excuse that "they forgot" they had a child or children in the car? How do you forget the little ones you brought into this world?

Leaving a cell phone may not be a solution. Kids will play with electronics if left to themselves, and the fancier that phone is, the more they might mess up a program or setting on it if they play with yours. Then the mechanism jams and they can't call for help if their lives depended on it (which it does).

The days when we could roll windows down and manually lock doors are over.If it is too hot for you, it's worse for the kids. Either leave them home with a sitter or someone who can be responsible for them, or take them in the store or wherever with you. Just don't forget your kid or kids are THERE - right beside you or in the back seat.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@MaryJanine Am thinking that the "leaving the cell phone" might get the parent's attention since it's something they always carry with them. I don't know. People don't look in the backseat when they lock the car up? They just lock it and run? If they care they'll leave their purse, their lunch bag, brief case, phone, etc. on the floor in the back of the car and then they'll have to look.

MaryJanine · 61-69, F

Maybe they might. I don't know. But my mom had as many as four kids at one time when she was alive and driving, and she never left us or anything to amuse us in the car. That was before cellphones (1960's) were heard of. We went into wherever she was going together - the eldest pushed the shopping cart with the baby in it, and my younger brother and I rode the bottom of the cart. We didn't sit in a hot car for what seems like hours but was in reality only minutes. My girlfriend had six children (all of various ages) and she took all of them with her and made a "nose count" before going to shop. Again, she made sure not to leave them in a hot vehicle.

I agree with the thought, but the cellphone makers urge you to take the phone with you "while you shop". I did that just once when I went to the grocery store. It rang three times while in my pocket, and each time it was a telemarketer. That's why I went back to a landline the first minute I could and gave up the cellphone.