To be surprised to see a car with two children alone in it a good five minute walk from school?

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How stupid can some people be?

YABU to be surprised.

What did you do?

YaNbu

I am not clear on what you mean. Genuine. I am not trying to draw you out for a ruck

In the middle of nowhere or parked outside a house?

Where exactly was the car? Where the kids asleep? Are you sure the parent/guardian was as far away as the school?

I have friends who sometimes leave their kids in the car outside their houses if they've fallen asleep and don't want to wake them. Personally I wouldn't do it as don't think it's worth the very small risk that they might be taken or the more likely scenario that they wake up and are distressed. A car was stolen 2 minutes up the road from me a month or so ago with a baby in the back, the person who took it stopped the car a few minutes up the road and put the baby in it's seat on the pavement and luckily the baby came to no harm but can you imagine?!

How old were the children? Were they securely strapped in? What time of day? Was the engine running? Was it outside their house?

How old were the children?

Not outside the house - I know whose children they are. Engine not running, not sure if they were strapped in, but they appeared to be sitting in seats. Children about 1 and 6. Parent had taken other child into school.

We get this outside our school everyday . I totally disagree with leaving them if you can't see them. Unfortunately some parents have totally different attitudes to others.

The ones at our school without sounding prejudice (and before anyone gives me hell) all belong to a certain part of the community.

Not that all members of this community leave kids in car, but the ones who do are from the same background.

Please don't slate me, only stating a fact.

the qusetion is tho.....

is this 5 mins slow walk, or 5 mins on high speed.

I am a fast walker, so my 5 mins walking would get me three times further than many people, so really, this could be 1min away, and the children might be not wanting to walk.

and how do you know that they were taking older child to school??? they might have been stopping quickly to run into somewhere before going on to the school.

I mean, who the hell drives a car and then parks 'a good five mins' away from the school

Ha, you don't know our school. You are very lucky to be able to park within five mins of the school. Also close to main road and dual carriageway so easy access to anyone wanting to get away quickly.

What are you afraid is going to happen to the dc? I have left my dc in a car and taken another one into school, I also leave them in the car at the petrol station - as I fell it is more dangerous to get them out (i do always take the keys with me)

I didn't realise I belong to a certain community....

I leave 3yo DD in the car whilst I see DSs across the road. What's she going to do? Hotwire it and drive off?

And I doubt I'm in the same "certain part of the community" [sheesh]

Sorry ladies I wasn't putting people into certain type of coimmunity for this behaviuor, I was trying to be politically correct . The community I'm talking about are travellers of which we have 10% intake at our school.

Some of them regularly leave children in car at other end of road and leave doors unlocked, no child seat etc.

But as I said earlier not all do, it just appears to be this community and also abandoning cars in the middle of the road, and blocking the road.

I also leave my DC in car when going for petrol (and take keys with me).

did I kill the thread ?

I'll get my coat

I don't think a six year old and a baby should be left alone in a car, no. The thing with the early years is that they need to be within eye and or earshot of an adult with responsibility for them - certainly for that adult to be within five minutes of them

YANBU

"what on earth could happen" is not a mantra I could live by TBH.

MrsPurple .

I would never leave children alone in a car anywhere. Simple really. I'm always amazed that others think that doing so is ever acceptable.

MrsPurple

Appalling.

But you are probably about to hear a lot worse than that on this thread. Be ready.

Another thing you have to think about if you're going to leave your children in a car alone is what if something happened to you? If you were knocked down by a car and seriously injured so that you were unconcious it could be sometime before your children were found. I know there is a small chance of such a thing happening but some risks aren't worth it IMO.

"Some of them regularly leave children in car at other end of road and leave doors unlocked, no child seat etc.

But as I said earlier not all do, it just appears to be this community and also abandoning cars in the middle of the road, and blocking the road."

• are you talking about the parents at DS2's infant school - sounds EXACTLY the same.........

oh wait............there's no travellers at the school at the moment so it must be able the middle class mummies !!

Soup - you sure she can't hotwire the car?? they're clever little buggers these days

was it me? I live 5 mins from a school ( which we dont attend) and in the mornings regularly put ds1 and ds2 who are 4 and 2 in the car which is parked on the road outside the house then lock the car, go back and get the nursery bag and lock the door. They're strapped in but alone for 30 secs to 2 mins depending onhow organised I am. Would you count that as terrible?

The thing is it is a dreadful bind to have to get 3 children and a buggy out of the car walk up to school walk back pack the k

ids back in the car and collapse the buggy - if the 6 yr old knows to sit still and read her book/play on her game etc etc then I dont see the problem- do you honestly believe children at school are a 100% watched over every minute?

How will our children learn how to behave and act responsibly if we dont give them a chance?

Having said that ds1 is at the ortho on friday and I wont leave ds2 13 and ds3,8 alone whilst im gone - we have grandad come up.