We’re not even halfway into June, and I have already read four different reports of small children being left in vehicles. One of the children I read about, a four year old little boy, died after being left strapped in his car seat, in a mini-van, for over seventeen hours before an older sibling remembered and found him.

I will never pretend to understand how someone can forget their child is in a vehicle. I don’t care if you’re tired, sick, upset, if you have one kid or fifteen, THERE IS NO EXCUSE. Even at my worst — hopped up on pain medication, sick and dizzy with lack of sleep, grieving over the death of my grandmother that day, etc. — I have never once walked away from my car without having Alyssa and/or Ryan with me.

Accidental tragedy or not, I don’t think that the parents that leave their kids in cars should be let go with a warning.

Please, remember your children. Put your purse or bag in the back seat so that you have to look and reach back there for it. Put an alarm on the car seat(s) that goes off if you’re so many feet away from the vehicle (such alarms do exist! They work in conjunction with another alarm that hangs on your car key ring). Stick a picture of your child(ren) IN THEIR SEAT on your dashboard or hanging beneath your rear view mirror, to jog your memory about what you need to do.

Poor babies. I cry every single time I read such a story.

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