I guess I don't really see why people feel the need to leave their kid in the car. SURE it is less truoble to take them out. But honestly, we have been taking DS in and out of the car for really brief trips since he was a newborn (we never used the infant seat as a carrier). He is used to it. He deals. It doesn't make our lives anymore difficult.
I guess I just get annoyed that people are like OMG you don't know how annoying/difficult it is to get the kid out of the car for two seconds. Well, that is life. Deal with it. I am sick of people complaining about crap like that. Like peoplr who say "well I leave my kid in the car while I load the groceries in the house." You know what? I don't have that option becuase my car is 6 stories under my house. Somehow I manage to carry the kid and a weeks worth of groceries upstairs. I think suburban parents need to man up.
We have also had a couple car jackings here with kids in the car, so it makes me inclined to never chance it.
Re: the bolded - aside from leaving him in the car for like 30 seconds while I return the cart, I haven't done this, but it's so tempting. Not every child is super well-behaved, and I've said it a million times here already, but my child has a habit of acting a damn fool when I go inside anywhere. I honestly think it would be easier to leave him in the car for a minute while I pre-pay for gas rather than the whole excursion taking 20 minutes because I have to chase him through the store and pull every single item they sell out of his hands and put it back where it belongs. Homeboy acts like he has never seen anything outside of his home sometimes. Not every kid is cool with coming inside.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
I guess I don't really see why people feel the need to leave their kid in the car. SURE it is less truoble to take them out. But honestly, we have been taking DS in and out of the car for really brief trips since he was a newborn (we never used the infant seat as a carrier). He is used to it. He deals. It doesn't make our lives anymore difficult.
I guess I just get annoyed that people are like OMG you don't know how annoying/difficult it is to get the kid out of the car for two seconds. Well, that is life. Deal with it. I am sick of people complaining about crap like that. Like peoplr who say "well I leave my kid in the car while I load the groceries in the house." You know what? I don't have that option becuase my car is 6 stories under my house. Somehow I manage to carry the kid and a weeks worth of groceries upstairs. I think suburban parents need to man up.
We have also had a couple car jackings here with kids in the car, so it makes me inclined to never chance it.
So should I just pick my favorite?
Your favoite kid? I saw a lady at the airport with a baby in the ergo on her back and a kid in a sling on the front! Double babywear! (note I have no clue how old your kids are). But again, not really serious!
You're screwed if your house catches fire AND your car is stolen all at the same time.
But the truth is, we aren't just talking about taking the groceries in. In fact, I don't think anyone in this thread mentioned suburban moms in their driveway anyway so it kind of smacked of I love my kids more than you do. YWIA!
Or I should say kid. Lord knows people have the luxury of making these proclamations when we're talking about one child who is young enough to stay in the crib.
Your favoite kid? I saw a lady at the airport with a baby in the ergo on her back and a kid in a sling on the front! Double babywear! (note I have no clue how old your kids are). But again, not really serious!
I am serious about the first paragraph and the last. The middle is TIC.
BUt I do think it is silly when people complain about how much work it is to do stuff that I just end up dping becuase I live in an urban area.
I also imagine living in an urban area means you don't have four weeks of groceries in the back of your car along with a huge box of diapers and a stroller.
Your favoite kid? I saw a lady at the airport with a baby in the ergo on her back and a kid in a sling on the front! Double babywear! (note I have no clue how old your kids are). But again, not really serious!
I guess I don't really see why people feel the need to leave their kid in the car. SURE it is less truoble to take them out. But honestly, we have been taking DS in and out of the car for really brief trips since he was a newborn (we never used the infant seat as a carrier). He is used to it. He deals. It doesn't make our lives anymore difficult.
I guess I just get annoyed that people are like OMG you don't know how annoying/difficult it is to get the kid out of the car for two seconds. Well, that is life. Deal with it. I am sick of people complaining about crap like that. Like peoplr who say "well I leave my kid in the car while I load the groceries in the house." You know what? I don't have that option becuase my car is 6 stories under my house. Somehow I manage to carry the kid and a weeks worth of groceries upstairs. I think suburban parents need to man up.
We have also had a couple car jackings here with kids in the car, so it makes me inclined to never chance it.
If I'm reading between the lines correctly what you're really saying is you want a fucking medal for being so superior to all of the other moms, right?
Your favoite kid? I saw a lady at the airport with a baby in the ergo on her back and a kid in a sling on the front! Double babywear! (note I have no clue how old your kids are). But again, not really serious!
Your favoite kid? I saw a lady at the airport with a baby in the ergo on her back and a kid in a sling on the front! Double babywear! (note I have no clue how old your kids are). But again, not really serious!
Your favoite kid? I saw a lady at the airport with a baby in the ergo on her back and a kid in a sling on the front! Double babywear! (note I have no clue how old your kids are). But again, not really serious!
Wait, you want me to get out of my car, strap on the ergo and the sling, plop twin pudgeballs in them and then bring in all my groceries all at the same time?? By the time I do all this, I could have had the groceries and my kids in the house.
I'm going to assume that you merely have to tap your wrists and spin around to change clothes then.
I guess I don't really see why people feel the need to leave their kid in the car. SURE it is less truoble to take them out. But honestly, we have been taking DS in and out of the car for really brief trips since he was a newborn (we never used the infant seat as a carrier). He is used to it. He deals. It doesn't make our lives anymore difficult.
I guess I just get annoyed that people are like OMG you don't know how annoying/difficult it is to get the kid out of the car for two seconds. Well, that is life. Deal with it. I am sick of people complaining about crap like that. Like peoplr who say "well I leave my kid in the car while I load the groceries in the house." You know what? I don't have that option becuase my car is 6 stories under my house. Somehow I manage to carry the kid and a weeks worth of groceries upstairs. I think suburban parents need to man up.
We have also had a couple car jackings here with kids in the car, so it makes me inclined to never chance it.
If I'm reading between the lines correctly what you're really saying is you want a fucking medal for being so superior to all of the other moms, right?
Yes I deserve all the medals.
Goodness. I said I was being TIC. What more do you want!
Your favoite kid? I saw a lady at the airport with a baby in the ergo on her back and a kid in a sling on the front! Double babywear! (note I have no clue how old your kids are). But again, not really serious!
Wait, you want me to get out of my car, strap on the ergo and the sling, plop twin pudgeballs in them and then bring in all my groceries all at the same time?? By the time I do all this, I could have had the groceries and my kids in the house.
I'm going to assume that you merely have to tap your wrists and spin around to change clothes then.
EVERYTHING YOU DO PUTS YOUR CHILDREN AT RISK AND MAKES YOU A BAD MOTHER!
HTH
That's the other part that makes me ragey. It's never the fathers we're discussing. Most fathers get to run out and put gas in the car without trying to decide if it's worth unbuckling everyone and dragging their asses into the mini mart and back out again while saying, no, I'm not buying any chips, no, we aren't getting a slurpee, OMG STOP TALKING TO ME I JUST WANT SOME DAMNED GAS, YO!
Can't you just appreciate what outstanding fathers they're being by babysitting their kids in the first place??
Iammalcolmx can vouch for the fact that I used to leave my infant and toddler in the car while I ran into the convenience store to get my Diet Dr. Pepper so I could get my caffeine high.
Can't you just appreciate what outstanding fathers they're being by babysitting their kids in the first place??
Only when I'm booking it down the high way singing Living on a Prayer all to myself because I left the kids at home with their father so I can pick up some milk/feel all the fabric in peace.
I guess I don't really see why people feel the need to leave their kid in the car. SURE it is less truoble to take them out. But honestly, we have been taking DS in and out of the car for really brief trips since he was a newborn (we never used the infant seat as a carrier). He is used to it. He deals. It doesn't make our lives anymore difficult.
Ah, spoken like someone whose baby actually takes naps...
but that accident had nothing to do with a baby. he's a teen.
I know.
I think she's being a dingding. A full scale ding ding. But I also think that recent experience is fueling her crazy at the moment.
Plus, you ever get in a post where you're all IF YOU KNEW ersumshit and the person comes back with WELL I DO KNOW! and then you feel like a jerk because you would have worded it differently if you did?
Yeah, I'm just trying to save us all from that lol.
I realize I did this once and I am embarrassed that I let my emotions get the best of me and did that on that particular day. And why don't I have access to the embarrassed face emoticon from this screen?
Just to throw my two cents into the pile, I've done this exactly once. It made me so anxious and paranoid that I haven't done it since. But I do not judge other parents who do it at all (within reasonable parameters - I will definitely judge the person who leaves the kids in the car to go in and do 40 minutes worth of shopping).
Post by ringstrue on Sept 28, 2012 13:13:11 GMT -5
When i take DD out of her seat she runs around the front yard and down the street. WHICH IS SAFER NOW!?!?
I try to take her with me just so she gets used to being in public with me and standing line - since they do that a lot in her new class now she gets it more. But now she thinks every trip to the convenient store or grocery store is about getting M&Ms and lolipops.
I have fantasies about her staying in the car while I run into the convenient store for ONE thing. I do leave her in the car during gas fillups and if I have to get out to use an ATM or deposit something in the after-hours box.