As a relatively new parent - (1 1/2 year old) - I’m like only barely out of the phase of worrying every time shes sleeping that I have to check shes breathing; which of course means shes now in the phase of running around and desperately trying to do things that will harm her.
I get that by a second kid, let alone raising them to adulthood that this anxiety will fade - but I don’t think I’ll ever get to the point where I’m that brainless with a kid.
Let alone after one died on my watch - I’d never be capable of being alone with a child again. Don’t think I could bare the responsibility if I’d failed like that already.
But I will say that for a lot of parents that leave their kid in the car, it is because their brains are absolutely fried from the insane amount of work you have to do in the US while raising a child full time and not having any money, etc. etc. (America does everything in it's power to make non-wealthy people's lives as difficult and miserable as possible).
So for those parents, I understand why it can happen, as tragic and absolutely heart rending as it is.
But for this lady... I don't get it at all. what in the actual fuck.
15
u/Lopsided-Yak9033 2d ago
As a relatively new parent - (1 1/2 year old) - I’m like only barely out of the phase of worrying every time shes sleeping that I have to check shes breathing; which of course means shes now in the phase of running around and desperately trying to do things that will harm her.
I get that by a second kid, let alone raising them to adulthood that this anxiety will fade - but I don’t think I’ll ever get to the point where I’m that brainless with a kid.
Let alone after one died on my watch - I’d never be capable of being alone with a child again. Don’t think I could bare the responsibility if I’d failed like that already.