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TroutBum said:
I promise you, nobody loves their kids more than I do. I have no problem running into the store and leaving them in the car for a few minutes while I get milk or a Dew. If it's more than a few minutes, and if I don't have a clear view of the car, then they come in with me. No problem.

I'd probably lose it on someone if they accused me of being a bad parent, because I am a bad *** parent.
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I'd like to see how that would go down. Would you wish death on them or maybe just that their face would fall off?
 
Scat said:
So you advocate leaving kids in the car with no AC/heater running during prolonged trips into the store? Interesting...
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That is an interesting non sequitur. Where did I advocate leaving them in the car at all?

When I was five, I climbed into the family car and put it in neutral. It rolled across the street. You lave kids in a running car and they put it in gear, who knows how far it can roll and the damage it can cause?
 
Millsapa said:
I'd like to see how that would go down. Would you wish death on them or maybe just that their face would fall off?
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I would verbally abuse them, shake my fist at them, maybe point a finger or two. I'd have 'em cowering in no time. I'm like the Ring of Power -- all will kneel.
 
Gameface said:
Depends on how you prepare them. Cooking in a car is not optimal for the flavor or texture.
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I love kids, but I don't think I could eat a whole one.
 
I once left my son in the truck one night while I went and watched, "The Dark Knight." Great flick by the way! Ok that wasn't me. If I run into the gas station for say 1 to 2 minutes and can see my son and leave the car running with the AC I will. He's still in a car seat and can't get out anyways. Now if I have to go into a grocery store then I take him every time.
 
One Brow said:
You lave kids in a running car and they put it in gear, who knows how far it can roll and the damage it can cause?
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That's one of the problems I can see or someone jumping in and taking off with them, but those two things could be headed off with older children of a warning not to touch the gears and lock the door once the parent has left the car.
 
Turn the car off, take the keys with me, roll the window down a little and don't take more then 5-10 mins. They are not going to go into heat stroke in 5-10 mins unless its the dead of summer in Vegas. Somoe of you people are so damn uptight your kids will be anti-anxiety medicane at age 10 due to being constantly watched over and "protected' by there bad parents.
 
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Millsapa said:
Do you think it is inappropriate to leave a kid(s) in a running car while you go into the store real quick? Have you ever done it?
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I park the car, take the kids and the keys. I call it "Quality Time" with my kids to just have them with me, whatever my errand is.
 
The-Joker said:
Rep, mostly... I could give a flying **** about whether you're offended or not... but gotta keep rep up, internetz is serious business.
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TJ's two posts in a row, both just plain good. What? I've given out too much rep?

Milsapa is showing her age with this kind of question. Almost thirty.

At TwentyFive most people still think they are immortal have other things on their mind. What with people around who went to the same high school and all, you need to keep up appearances. So a younger mother is either going to take every occasion to sport the babe through the course of the errands of the day, or is gonna just lock the car up tight and run at the speed of meth into the store and back,inside of two minutes anyway.

At ThirtyFive, you just know that somebody fond of the NannyState and it's organs will have the cops there before you can get back, and even meth can't accelerate you to do the errand in under the two minutes it takes for the cops and the DFS agents to seize the kids and throw you into bankruptcy trying to keep yourself outta jail.

As is usually the case, our society is set up to prevent the actual welfare of the kids form being the issue. Public opinion is at the root of most of what we will permit ourselves to think or do. Same thing with our DFS which is in palpable terms more properly viewed as Foster Hell For Kids.
 
Millsapa said:
That's just beautiful!
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Every time I do something "beautiful" I immediately destroy it all with something like my analysis of your age. Nobody has ever been able to to keep me outta trouble. But my kids are truly interesting. At age eight I take them with me into the bank and have them fill out the deposit slips and talk to the cashiers. Somehow, they think people are good and have friends in everybody they meet.
 
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