Oops!

[quidditchgrrl]

One more thing to mark off on the parenting checklist...allowing your teenager to take your other three small children on errands.

Here at the library said teenager decided he needed some time alone. So he left his three siblings in the car, two of them still strapped into their car seats, while he perused the Internet inside the building.

You know, it's *checks weather.com* 21 degrees outside. Little brother got cold and decided to come in, which set the whole ball in motion. It took twenty minutes to find big brother, who didn't seem to be upset about it.

Both son (who left with the police and his sibs before his mom got here) and mom were pretty damn belligerent about the whole thing. *whaps*

*shakes head* My brothers used to take me drag racing with them on the weekends my parents work. And mom and dad would leave us in the car while they went in for milk at the store.

I think the world has changed, don't you? Egad, people are stupid.

Just thought it might make your day...

Comments

[tonksnymphadora.livejournal.com]

oh that's lovely!

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

Lovely. I guess teenagers aren't taking those "responsibility - the anti-drug" commercials and generalizing them, eh? Maybe they think that it only applies to getting stoned and such.

Heh.

21* and they are sitting in the car? That's not irresponsible. That's stoopid. Like way stoopid.

Mom got belligerent about it, eh? WTF? Do you think she would have been more belligerent if her kids turned into popsicles while her older kid surfed the net in the warmth of a public library?

What's that got to do with parenting, anyway? That's just stoopid people breeding more stoopid people. That's not parenting.

[prettygnomeface.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is incredibly sad.

There have a been quite a few incidents in Melbourne, Australia (Where I'm from) similar to that.

I think in 2002 there was a woman who was so desperate to feed her gambling habit she left her baby in the back car seat in the middle of summer while she went to a nearby casino. Unfortunately no one noticed the child sitting in the car seat and she died.

I don't have children, but if/when I choose to I couldn't imagine myself ever leaving their side. Not even for a second.