I feel very strongly about what I am seeing so I have found this place to share my thoughts...
Today I saw three separate incidents of mums leading their child / children out into the road to get into the baby seat fitted to the off side of the car.
In some countries it is against the law to get into, or out of a car on the off-side ( road side ) for obvious reasons. It is dangerous.
Seeing these little children being walked into the road just looked so wrong. Surely a mother would park her car to make sure the baby seat is on the near side ( pavement side ) to ensure the total safety of her baby / child getting into and out of the car ?
Whilst I'm here, two other things...
Baby buggies are very handy, the child is almost on the ground so no fear of it falling out of the buggy, and buggies are light etc... but, from what I see, the baby/toddler is facing forward, and cannot see its mum and is detached from its Mum. Add to that along the typical busy high street the poor child is at exhaust pipe level of all the traffic, breathing in all those fumes, and how many times have I, as a driver, seen the front of a buggy being pushed out from behind parked cars, before I see the mum safely behind the child she is pushing into the road.
Lastly, with the proliferation of mobile phones, I cannot count the number of mums I see pushing a sad looking toddler in the buggy looking ahead with no connection with the mum, whilst she is talking on her phone. The apparent lack of connection is hard to ignore.
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Some new mums are worrying me
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Marekesque · 29/07/2014 19:51
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