Im not a mom but how do you "forget your child in a car"

I just don't get it Moms please help me is it really something thats easy to do ?


"Oh my God! Oh my God!" A frantic mother screams. The woman had just run out of a store realizing she left her 7-month old daughter alone in a hot car. The drama was caught on tape in the parking lot of a Target in suburban Kansas City. The mother is inconsolable as she tells police she was inside the store's pharmacy when she saw police activity out front and realized what was going on. Fortunately for the Kansas City mom, her baby came out of the ordeal ok after being left alone for about thirty minutes.

Anchor Dana Wright of KCTV 5 was riding along with paramedics when they got the emergency call of a child in distress. Wright tells INSIDE EDITION, "...about ten minutes later we're still trying to figure out where the mother was and we hear screaming...very loud screaming. And we turned around and we see this. The scene Wright describes is of the frantic mother returning to her black SUV, by this time surrounded by police and emergency personnel.

Police say the mother left the child inside her black SUV with the windows rolled up. Sadly, this incident in Kansas City is just the latest in an epidemic of babies being left in hot cars.

"It never surprises me that it keeps happening, Jannette Fennell, the founder of the organization of Kids and Cars tells INSIDE EDITION. It really disappoints me." In some recent, but chilling public service announcements, Fennell tries to educate parents about the dangers of leaving kids alone in hot cars.

INSIDE EDITION talks with an expert to find out what parents can do to help keep their children safe. Our expert says something as simple as leaving a stuffed animal in the passengers seat of your car can serve as a reminder, and can make the difference between life and death. Fennell says, the animal was a visual cue. It reminded her that there was precious cargo in the back seat of her vehicle. It becomes a simple reminder that will hopefully prevent frightening scenes like the one outside of the Kansas City Target store.

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I don't get it either.

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THANK GOD this baby is ok.

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This has been happening a lot lately... I don't have children either yet but I don't understand how you can forget your child. I'm glad this child came out of it okay!!

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I'm not a mother and I tell you if i was one, I would 'NEVER' leave my child in a car...Did this woman get Arrested or have charges bought up against her??? I think she should!

ETA: I'm glad the baby is ok!

Message edited 10/4/2007 6:26:06 PM.

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I mean I've taken my dog out in the car. I don't forget him in there? I don't forget my pocketbook when I get out of the car A CHILD how does that happen

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Thank Goodness the baby is OK.
I don't understand how this can happen.
I am a mother. Every traffic light I am turning my head to check on DS.
He has car seat toys that he loves to play with. Once it gets quiet, I check in my mirror to make sure all is OK.
Even when hes not in the car, Im turning around to check. LOL.
Total Habit.

I will never ever understand how people can do this...Ever

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I just do not understand how people can forget their child in a car

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you don't forget your keys or your purse, right?

HOW THE HELL can you forget your CHILD?!?!?

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I don't get it either, even when I have my dog in the car with me I keep checking to make sure she's ok back there. I couldn't imagine forgetting a baby!!!!

I mean, what else could be on these people's minds that would cause them to forget their child!??!!!!!!

And the Kids and Cars organization, it's so sad that this happens often enough that there would be a need for such a thing!!

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She didn't forgot, she just got caught. I don't believe any mother would ever "forget" they have their child in the car with them.

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Posted by Stacey1403

She didn't forgot, she just got caught. I don't believe any mother would ever "forget" they have their child in the car with them.

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every freakin summer this happens. that poor baby

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Let me tell you something... you have to be a special kind of stupid to do something like this...

WhennCailen is in the car with me, he is on my mind every single second. I drive more carefully, I feel its not worth it to weave, cut someone off, try to beat the light, or anything else.

Even after I drop him off at daycare, I always look in the backseat... maybe its an ocd thing, but I dont care...

I would rather take an extra glance in the backseat then ever risk forgetting him... but I think abt him all day... theres no way I could ever forget him anywhere!!!!

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I look at Noah about 575 times when we drive just to the corner and back.

ITs either they are on drugs or lying about the "forgetting"

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You forget is you are a flippin moron. People that stupid should not be able to procreate.

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One time, I forgot myself in the car.... man was I scared when I realized what I did!


I don't understand it, either. Also, if you can't remember you kid in the back seat, how is a stuffed animal in the front seat going to help. If you need to turn your head to see the animal, wouldn't you also turn to see your DC? I agree with the APs that she just got caught, and tried to cover...

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Posted by Stacey1403

She didn't forgot, she just got caught. I don't believe any mother would ever "forget" they have their child in the car with them.

Message edited 10/5/2007 8:10:03 AM.

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Posted by Stacey1403

She didn't forgot, she just got caught. I don't believe any mother would ever "forget" they have their child in the car with them.

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Posted by Moehick

I just do not understand how people can forget their child in a car

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Even when I don't have them with me I'm looking for them! I never understand that lame excuse.

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ugh, I think that is TOTALLY Unacceptable.,..on this other site I go on, there was this big debate cause alot of people were saying "I feel so bad for these parents" and others (like me) feel bad for no one but those poor babies who are left to die (in some cases) in hot cars

It is totally inexcusable. If you cannot remember you have a child in the car, YOU SHOULD NOT BE A PARENT...PERIOD

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Unfortunately, this has happened a lot down here in Texas. Every summer there are reports of a child that died from being left inside a hot car in the Texas sun. Mom's and dad's have both been guilty of it. There was even a day care bus driver who had dropped off all the kids except one. The one he had left in the bus didn't make it.

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Earlier this year it happened in St. Louis and the parents were a pediatrician and a researcher.

The baby died when each of them thought the other had taken the baby out of the car to the on-site daycare already.

How you can continue to treat children as a professional after you've done something like that?