An unexpected sighting

Sometimes I don’t understand what people are thinking.

Since moving to the city, I’ve never seen so many young children and babies being driven in cars without being strapped into a careseat.  For that matter, few are ever actually buckled in.

Or, children are in a car with a carseat or booster, but they’re not sitting in it as the car is driven down the road.  Never looks like mom or dad (or whoever is responsible for them at that time) even care.

Do these people realise the sort of danger they are putting their innocent children into??  I remember an accident last year where an infant died in a car accident because she was being held in her grandma’s arms instead of being kept in her carseat.  It’s such a simple thing, but something that can save a life: put your kids in carseats!!

Today had to be the most surprising, however.  A mother pulls up to this store (I was waiting with the kids in the parking lot while my husband ran inside), parks her car, and walks into the store leaving her young toddler (not in a carseat), and an infant (in a carseat – bonus) in a running car that was unlocked and unattended.  My eyes couldn’t leave the car and I wanted to go stand near the car so no one would steal the car with the children in it, or to make sure the toddler didn’d open her door and walk out or worse yet get into the drivers seat of the RUNNING CAR and put it in gear… But if I did that, I’d be leaving my own children unattended in the car and I wasn’t willing to do that.  What are people thinking?!?  When my husband came out, we waited until the mother came back out before leaving.  I wanted so badly to say something to her, but I knew that in the state of mind I was in, it would not be well recieved nor would my words be the ones I’d want her to remember me by.  

I’m going to be praying that the Lord open some eyes here and help parents understand the importance of a carseat for their young children…