Kids and Car Safety
As a parent I have forgotten to go somewhere with my child I was scheduled to be at, forgotten to feed them before i put them in a car for over an hour and forgotten many things in the diaper bag. I have not, however forgotten my child in a hot car but I easily could have. Any parent that thinks that they could never leave a child in a car is kidding themselves because we are all have so many things on our minds and accidents happen.
Already in 2008, we’ve had 352 incidents with children left in hot cars and 72 deaths. That is a very real and very scary statistic to me.
Harrison’s Hope is a web site that is devoted to informing as many people as they can reach about the dangers associated with leaving children unattended in or around vehicles.
Children should never be left in vehicles even if it is to run into a store for “a minute”, even if you have to wake up your child to go into the store. I have had to wake up my children many times to go into a store and I remember how tempted I was to go into a dry cleaners and leave my kids locked in the car right outside the dry cleaners where I could easily see them. I just couldn’t do it, I was too scared.
Harrison’s hope web site has many tips for keeping kids safe in and around cars. Things like keeping your car always locked and using drive thrus instead of having to go into a restaurant or store are ease to do.
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