Don't leave your child in the car to Cook.

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It's summer here in the US so the stories of kids being left in cars in the heat is all over the media. I thought I had heard this in passing on the radio but thought 'that can't be right, no one is that stupid". Then bored, I googled it this morning and there it was, strategies to use to not leave your kid in the car to be cooked alive.

The #1 strategy, leave your purse or cell phone in the back seat with the child. You might forget the kid but your damn sure not to forget the phone or money.

How fucked up is this? Is this what our materialistic society degraded into? Human life less valuable than a phone? I just don't get it.

http://www.kidsafefoundation.org/dont-le...-never-do/

It has nothing to do with materialism or valuing one's phone more than one's child.  It has to do with the fact that people forget things.  

Here is a good article on this subject:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/...story.html

It is a bit long, but if you want to understand this sort of thing, you should read it.

OK, I read it. And I understand the psych behind it but I don't accept it, at least not for me. Here is why.

My son is a human life and an integral part of me (at least at that age). As far as my son was concerned, no amount of stress in my life could have not made him my first priority. Not in or by the car, not in or by the pool, not around the dog,........ His safety became my highest stressor that I attended to. I could have no more put his life in danger than I could have put my own. That's why a say I don't get it, I don't understand it.

I'm not saying all of these parents should be considered criminals or prosecuted. I'm not saying that stress and memory lapse are not a valid reason for the behavior. I'm not saying I don't have compassion for these parents. But, I still don't understand.

This is not an attack but do you have kids?