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AIBU?

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To think I made a MN flaming worthy admission at preschool?

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Softlysoftly · 10/01/2013 09:46

They are going to be discussing me in the playground I just know it.

I dropped DD1 off (late as per bloody usual) so parked car just on the corner around from the door and ran her in. When the teacher said "it's fine to come in for a minute if you want", I replied "oh no don't worry I can't, the baby's in the car".

Fuck

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Softlysoftly · 10/01/2013 11:23

Morebeta you are sadly correct.

I'd like to point out its an enclosed car park on the corner of the building not a random corner!

Piglet Mind I once opened a stable door to find a pram with baby in there, the owners daughter had left her in there while she rode in the indoor school. Think that's slightly less neglectful though!

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Softlysoftly · 10/01/2013 11:24

Ll31 x post, the corner was in the carpal not road, the lateness I seem genetically programmed to it even when I'm on time something crops up therefore I accept the telling off and have no defense!

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Pigsmummy · 10/01/2013 11:32

See OP you thought that you were bad?!I think you leaving baby in car for a few minutes is ok.

Sorry to highjack your post. I think I need to have a quiet word with friend.....

ll31 · 10/01/2013 11:32

[Grin] enjoy your coffee! !! But consider that people who are always late eventually just piss everyone else off, seriously. .. its to do with the implied, even unintentional, belief, that their time is way more important than everyone else so everyone else can wait. .. don't teach your kids this for their case. .. Rant over, enjoy your day!

ll31 · 10/01/2013 11:32

Their sake that is

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 11:34

leaving your child in a car and riding for miles is neglect

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 11:35

remind your friend how easy it is to fall off a horse and hurt yourself. does she do it in hot weather? dogs die in hot cars so what would happen to her baby?

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 11:36

too many babies a year die in hot cars. it doesn't take much for a car to turn into an oven even on not really hot days.

Thumbwitch · 10/01/2013 11:39

Pigsmummy - - that's terrible!! if that baby woke up in the first few minutes, they could be distraught for absolutely ages.

And what mum38etc. said.

OP - I wouldn't have left my baby in the car around the corner, but would have if it was in eyesight. But not here in Australia because it is illegal.

Proudnscary · 10/01/2013 11:40

I used to leave my 2/3 year old son in car when dropping dd off at nursery. Couldn't see him for about 5 minutes.

Fuck I'm going a bit cold about it now.. what was I thinking?!

Anniegetyourgun · 10/01/2013 11:45

I used to leave my precious DCs home with XH all day. Now that was a baaaad idea. Fortunately, somehow, they all survived.

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 11:46

i think if you can see the car its ok. so if it started smoking etc you could get them out. but if you can't see it or are miles away on a horse then thats wrong

PessaryPam · 10/01/2013 11:46

Ha this is small beer. We have friends who used to go out to dinner and leave their daughter asleep in the car outside the restaurant in her car seat. This was back in the 80s, and even back then and childless we were all WTF when they told us.

jojane · 10/01/2013 11:46

In the mornings I leave 2 year old ds in car whilst ds1 and dd walk into school. It's a school car park (small) and I walk to the corner of it with kids and then watch them walk down the path until I see them walk into the door, I can see the car as well.
At pick up if he is asleep I leave him in car, lock car and go and stand in playground but wait in car until I can see the kids comin out them run down. School is in middle of nowhere on edge of a village and so I would deem it safer to do this then in a town. Everyone knows everyone else by sight so if he woke someone would tell me.

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 11:53

Really outside? another kate and gerry then

Lancelottie · 10/01/2013 11:59

Hell, Fakebook, be careful! I get cold shivers at the occasional stories of people who have forgotten their sleeping child was in the car and parked up for the day. Some have died.

(Really not trying to get at you BTW, it's the kind of thing I could all too easily imagine doing when knackered and on autopilot.)

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 12:04

but to do it dellibrately is awful. its neglect and neglect is child abuse which needs to be stopped. Can you not talk some sense into the horse rider? ask her what would happen if the baby woke up and someone called the police? ss would take a dim view of it . and thats one of the best outcomes of leaving a baby in a car for best part of two hours!

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 12:05

if she still does it you need to report it. before the baby gets hurt. so much could go wrong, its just luck it hasn't so far.

mum382013 · 10/01/2013 12:07

if i saw a baby alone in a car for hours then i would call the police

Thumbwitch · 10/01/2013 12:20

I found this - it's a few years old, it's an American study, and it's in deg F but it's still noteworthy www.injuryprevention.org/states/la/hotcars/hotcars.htm
93 deg F = 34 deg C
125 deg F = 51.7 deg C
140 deg F = 60 deg C (would scald you if you put your hands in water at this temp)

So the temp almost doubled inside the car in an hour (using deg C). Obviously not a major issue in the winter months but then you'd have more worry that a child would get cold!

PessaryPam · 10/01/2013 13:06

I think they locked the car mind you.

PickledInAPearTree · 10/01/2013 14:36

13Iggis · 10/01/2013 15:25

I may as well leave my baby napping in his cot while I go off to my local gym for an hour. I thought you were going to say she rode round and round a field with the car at the edge of it.
(Realise this is not much to do with OP's situation - least now you can say you've heard of worse, Softly!

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