Before reading about this (http://www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=588205b3-e9f5-4d8d-8726-31c92edf52ad)today, I only read the headline and told Dean my possible choices for what she had done wrong , my choices were:
A) not putting sunscreen on the kid
B) taking a nap and letting the kid play alone (or wander off)
C) leaving the kid in the car playing w/ the keys in it
GEEEZ…..that could definitely happen to me….I let the kids play alone someplace in the house, as I normally do and one comes to me crying and bleeding, oh wait that happens all the freaking time!!! I hope the bite marks on Zeke dont come back to haunt me. I really should stop blogging about this before someone reports me based on my blog entries alone. cause now a days that would be sufficient evidence for a conviction.
I told Dean before parents didnt need to use car seats in cars, and I’ve heard it said by older women that that would just leave their kids in the car if they went into a store and I am almost positive in the 60s there was a TON of child endangering going on while parents were stoned out of their minds…but no that was ok because everyone was doing it. Now it’s illegal to be a mediocre parent, goodness, sooner or later we’re all going to be screwed. then who’s going to take care of kids, the pedophiles and drug addicts……oh yeah life that will just be grand.
why does this keep bothering me, mostly because I am sure no one ever mentions what really was happening in these stories, or maybe that the mom did leave them for hours on end and that is truly bad, but if this was truly just a coincidence that she left the room then how are we to get through a day, heck what would have happened if she went to the bathroom!!
I just know that I am a bad mom, that no one can be the perfect parent and I worry that someone just has it out for these parents and calls the cops. not saying some of them dont deserve it, like I said I doubt we’d never hear the whole story, but if this is truly a one time fluke accident then why not give her a break, I”m sure she’s suffering enough after worrying about her kid getting hurt while she tried to get a minute break. motherhood if full of guilt, we dont need everyone reminding us how horrible we are at being moms.
