To worry about this child asleep in car

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There's a child about 2years old asleep in a car (in car seat) on road near my work (quietish residential street). I've been here about 10 minutes and no one has come back for him. Might be overreacting but would never leave my son asleep in car for more than a minute or two. Don't know what to do, should I report it?? Just concerned maybe he's been forgotten about, after reading some stories where this happened, and worried for the little thing

I think you're all being really rotten with your mocking of the OP - and all the ridiculous scenarios you're dreaming up. As if the child was going to be eaten by hyenas or bitten by spiders. Obviously the real danger would be an alien invasion; I've seen Independence Day, I know what those buggers can do to a car.

The police came to visit me after my DH had left the DCs alone in the car for 5 minutes, so, yes, the police WOULD be interested.

I think what keeping means is that I am not a good mother because I have on occasion left my children in the car whilst I went inside and kept an eye on them. I'll survive her opinion of me (just about).

Is that a serious question Sirzy?

Have you been living under a rock for the past few years and missed all the awful stories about children literally cooking or freezing to death?

Yes, there are plenty of examples of children being genuinely forgotten about if you care to google.

It is a serious question. I have never heard of a child being forgotton about sleeping in a car outside their house. I am sure you can provide links if it happens as often as you are trying to suggest

err but she did come keeping.

Blimey

I've left my children asleep in the car, all hell would break loose if they were woken before they were ready and I wouldn't have had a snowball in hell's chance of getting them back to sleep.

If someone had come snooping round the car I would have waited until they'd gone before going out, for fear of getting a gobful of unwarranted abuse (I hate confrontation).

If the child was distressed I would have suggested ringing the police but a sleeping child, in a car, not overheating or freezing = no problem imvho.

Er...after 5 minutes of seeing a stranger snooping around her car. Mmm. Wonderful parenting. She should write a book.

So you have been living under a rock Sirzy. Pity for you.

This is the most bizarre thread I have read on here. Good to question it and keep an eye on the situation. A lot of responses have been absurd. 999?!

Btw, a lot of people use baby monitor apps in their cars as well as watching from a window.

So the police told OP they'd come out straight away. Not as bonkers as some people said she was to ring them perhaps?

Tiger, you are far too rational for this thread .

not been living under a rock, just not living in some sad little world where everything is a massive risk about to happen and life has to be seriously sheltered!

Like I said its not something I would do but some people really do need to get some perspective on the whole thing!

sirzy I remember a couple of these stories in the summer. I think the worst was in America where someone went to work and 'forgot' baby was in the car.

Unless I missed a part of the OP, I didn't read anything that implied the car was parked on the drive/ just outside the house. Not sure how the automatic conclusion is that the OP is overreacting 'because the Mum must be able to see DC'

Thought the whole point of the thread was because of precisely the opposite?

Sirzy, there are, very sadly, cases where children have been left in a car all day by mistake and died (heat or cold usually the cause). I can think of a few cases in the years since I've been on MN. It was certainly in the news over the summer and I saw a few threads about it on MN even. Usually in these cases it's been a case of the parent going to work, something in the routine changing and they forget to leave the child in day care but assume they've done it.

Op you did right thing.

My rule of thumb is that if I wouldn't leave my handbag unattended somewhere, then I wouldnt leave my child unattended there either.

What's a sole of maturity? Is it a new type of shoe? I think I need some.

Sirzy, where do you get these maturity soles from then?

KeepingUpWithTheJonses

Er yes Sirzy.

You are the sole of maturity and sensible discussion.

Shall I start posting the links of children cooking to death that you are so vehemently asking for now?

Doubtless you can post half a dozen links to children cooking to death in cars in November in the UK.

Yes they cook to death in june and freeze to death in freezing temperatures. Unless she is in the Arctic or oz, Im reckoning you havent had your yet keeping.

OHforDUCKScake

Yes they cook to death in june and freeze to death in freezing temperatures.

Presumably when it's 15C in November, and raining, they drown?

Mmm...well done, witty.

The point is though Ducks you don't actually know where the op is do you? Or what the climate and weather is like there.

Yet the advice has been uniformly the same.

Responsible or...

IfIdon'tknow. Car was parked on residential street. Seems like Mum was watching as she came out soon after OP was hanging around car.

I know it's hilarious and all that but it may be worth noting, that children die a lot in cars in the summer, in places like the USA where it gets a lot warmer than here.

I would hate someone to read the caustic responses here and figure that leaving a child in a car at any time of year was absolutely fine. It's not.