To think this is so dangerous?

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Walking through a car park after dark last night. Family getting into car and toddler having tantrum on the floor. Instead of scooping him up and chucking him in the car the parents are trying to reason with him while he is on the ground?? Cars everywhere, its really dark, he could have so easily been hit

Some parents are just stupid.

I'm all for helping them to navigate their emotions and feelings but sometimes they just need picking up and moving, not pandering to them.

Probably just one of those silly parenting moments everyone has at some point

It's dangerous but parents were probably exhausted and at the end of their tether and weren't thinking of the danger x

I mean, I presume the parents were with the tantrumming child and perfectly visible, so I'm not sure he was in as much danger as all that?

I'd try to withhold judgement. You don't know what was going on for that family. You've no idea with the child had a neurodisibility and touching them would have been extremely distressing to them. You've no idea if that was a child in a new placement with foster carers they don't yet trust.

I think you should try to stay away from judging them.

Agree that they should’ve just picked the kid up and chucked them in the car. However, we all have our moments of madness, I wouldn’t judge.

I was in work the other day and watched a dad put his toddler on the ROOF of his Land Rover while he sorted out her car seat.

Obviously she started crawling and he caught her before she went off the back...

Some people are idiots.

The Dad was near him but not close enough to have been able to grab him if a car swerved towards the son.

Accept your comments about neurodiversity.

You witnessed one moment, OP.

I really think some people are just oblivious to risk and don’t think anything bad will happen to them/their kids. It’s almost like a form of entitlement. I see it every day outside school - parents letting their kids swan out into the road without looking properly, cycling in with no helmet on the back of dad’s bike, etc. What you witnessed was likely just a moment of poor judgement but I do think a lot of parents are a bit too unimaginative when it comes to their kids’ safety

This.

A very dangerous few minutes actually...I don't really see what your point is

That you shouldn't judge people's parenting on one moment. I'm sure it was scary to witness at the time, but this short moment isn't necessarily indicative of how these people parent their child the rest of the time.