Quick question to all parents...

[EniGmA1981]

Hey all,

I went out shopping this morning to a retail park with my kids and partner and when I parked up I noticed that there was a little boy (probably about 18 months) fast asleep in his car seat with no one else about, so the mum/dad/grandparent obviously left him in the car while they shopped so as to not wake him up im guessing.

This is only the 2nd time I've seen this and both times I've been quite shocked, it's not something I would ever do but it got me thinking, is it me just being uptight and paranoid or is this something a lot of parents do when they go shopping and their kids are sleeping?

Answers on a postcard please

 

[8of9]

Swings & Roundabouts

 

[Danthus]

Never did it, never would do it. Shouldn't do it.

Madeleine McCann.

I would have phoned the Police to be honest.

 

[Selekt0r]

Not something we have ever done with our kids

 

[Andelusion]

I don't have kids, but I would never do that.

 

[vicisthebest]

I've not got kids but I wouldn't do that. If someone left their sleeping child in a car while they popped to the post box or into a newsagents to get a paper or something then not as much of a problem I don't think, as long as the car is locked, but a shopping centre or retail park? You'll clearly be there a while.

 

[Ace Modder]

I never did it with my kids. I will leave my kids in the car now if its just the local corner shop where I will only be in the shop for 1-2 minutes.

My kids are now 7 and 8 though.

 

[Sho]

Nope never done it. No chance i'll leave the kids in the car. Just dosn't feel right.

 

[HEADRAT]

Yeah I wouldn't leave my kids unattended in a car.

 

[kwerk]

I would have called the police too. A lot of kids die that way in the summer. Even if it's not a high temperature it's still not right.

 

[stokecity_m]

Its a criminal offence to leave a minor unattended in a motor vehicle, plus its very irresponsible.

 

[OzyOly]

I would have called the police too. A lot of kids die that way in the summer. Even if it's not a high temperature it's still not right.

It's what I was thinking. No baby of mine will be left in the car on their own.

 

[EniGmA1981]

That's what I thought too, I wanted to hang around and tear a strip off them... wish I HAD called the police to be honest... Makes you wonder just how long that poor little fella sat there for in the end - and if he woke up scared, wondering where everyone had gone!

8of9, care to elaborate on that? Have you done it? Would you do it? etc...

 

[HEADRAT]

How the McCain's never got the book thrown at them for living their kids on their own is beyond me, what would happen if the cars handbrake went, or if it caught fire, or it was crashed into by another car etc.

 

[Mike UK]

Nope. Not a good idea

 

[Danthus]

How the McCain's never got the book thrown at them for living their kids on their own is beyond me, what would happen if the cars handbrake went, or if it caught fire, or it was crashed into by another car etc.

Not living on a council estate and claiming benefits had a lot to do with it. They were "middle England" personified.

 

[Energize]

I wouldn't leave my dog in a car.

 

[RabbiJacob]

Would never do it, if my little one was asleep in the car when we were shopping then the wife or I would stay in the car with her.

 

[Edrof]

No way I would ever do that

 

[Vonhelmet]

Its a criminal offence to leave a minor unattended in a motor vehicle, plus its very irresponsible.

Is that so? I'd be intrigued, being as we sometimes do it when we're nipping into Tesco for a couple of things.

In fact, I'm calling BS on that, because otherwise you couldn't get out to pay for your petrol at the petrol station, and I couldn't leave my one year old in the car while I go in to get my other child from the childminder's, or any of the myriad scenarios where such a thing might be done.