Baby died in car

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Actually something like that has been invented but the problem is, the company doesn't think they will make much money off of them because so many parents believe it will never happen to them so why would they need to buy a device to tell them they have a kid in the car? They would think it's for stupid parents who can't remember their own children and don't find them that important to not forget them.

The Washington post article for those who don't understand or wonder how can a parent forget their child in the car, especially how can a parent forget to drop their kid off at daycare?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01549.html

Dear League Girl, Thank you so much; that was an excellent article, but so hard to read. Those poor people, their lives will never be the same..
I think that there must be a possibility that car seats can be placed beside the driver safely.
If America has the technology for exploration of Mars, there surely must be a way for a car seat to be protected from the pressure of an airbag.
The courtroom descriptions of the babies' bodies were unbearable.
But thank you; the number of these deaths is appalling,especially that three of them happened in one day!

Sylkat

I think the problem is that we are all moving so much faster today, and all expected to multitask all the time.

Anyone with working memory issues has to know how easy it really is to be stressed and in a hurry and just forget, even something terribly important.

Just the other day, I had a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old in a gas station. Trying to keep control of both of them, keep both of them in contact with me in the parking lot, juggle the milk, and remember what I'm supposed to do next-- guess what, I got a good 15 feet from the car seat before I realized the baby was still back at the checkout register.

Scared the living crap out of me, let me tell you.

I generally do better when I remember to tell myself that I have a two-task capability. That the kids are one task, so do just one thing at a time. That works most of the time for a housewife. In the working world, though, that's a major handicap. At least in the white-collar universe, people seem to think you're not busy enough if you don't have two balls in each hand and another half dozen in the air.

Then there are changes in routine. Suffice it to say that Aspies aren't the only ones who tend to run on autopilot. Change the routine, multiply the chances that something will get forgotten by 10.

The only current solution is to look, look, always look. Look even when you know you don't have the kids in the car. Count heads when you put them in, count heads when you take them out. As you lock the car, stop for a second and mentally tally up where all the kids are.

Doing it makes me look like a real flake, but I can live with being a flake so long as I am (so far) a flake who hasn't left a kid in the car to cook. I have regular nightmares about it.