Never would I leave a child in the car alone, never. That mum is lucky it was her husband that took the little boy and not some stranger. She should be thankful for that, and have learnt a valuable lesson. Did the dad go too far, no, not at all.

I feel it’s perfectly alright. Sometimes, you need to give live example then theory for them to understand. He did try explaining to her but since she didn’t follow and understand he gave her a demo.

It is so not ok to leave the baby in the car alone at any time. I think I’d have thought of doing something similar to make her learn the hard way. Yes it’s going to far but in the real world this can actually happen so dam easy. Mum needed to be taught.

I understand her leaving the child in the car while paying for fuel but I cannot believe she left the car unlocked. I don’t think children should be left in the car if you cannot see them. Had she been keeping an eye on the child she would have seen her husband..

I hope this mum starts thinking, but by the sounds of it she takes little responsibility

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 23 Feb 2022 , 8:50 am

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  And no, not too extreme as they already discussed it before. It’s her behaviour which i found rather concerning and extreme and the fact she calls him cruel and psychotic and refuses to apologize shows very little pause and thinking and not being able to take responsibility for the extreme danger she puts their child in.

The thing is a car could crash into the back of her car and cause a fire plus steal the car or get stolen.

I think the fact he didnt leave her frantic for any longer than it should, really should’ve woke her up to the potential dangers of what could have been. I get she’s upset, but it was an important lesson. Leaving her door unlocked is a big no no and 6 minutes?? No way.

I’ve left my kids in the car to go pay for petrol, the car was always locked and I could always see them from inside. I now go to a station with driveway service. I have also ducked into my local corner store and left them in the car once. Both kids had been sick and had shared their bug with me so I went in to get some powerade. This shop I can park literally right at the door, no one else was in there I would have been no more than 30 seconds with them out of sight while I was at the fridge. I could see the car from the counter. All other times if I go somewhere so do my kids no matter how annoying it is to get 3 kids out just for a few minutes.

Mum definitely shouldn’t be doing that, and if the husband was able to take bubs obviously the car was unlocked. It’s a very hard lesson to learn with both sides in the wrong as dad could have been at the car telling mum how dangerous it could have been. Everyone will have an opinion sometimes I feel it would be easy to leave them in the car while I duck in for something especially having a 2 year old and a 7 month old but I couldn’t live with myself if something happened.

It is a cruel thing to put someone through. However, they are lucky that the dad is the one who took the baby and not some stranger! You just need to think of Madeleine McCann who was left alone in her hotel room with her siblings (depending on where you stand on that case)! I’ve also read stories about women who dress up as nurses and abduct new born babies from hospitals. So for her to leave the baby in the car AND the doors unlocked is rather unthinkable! I have a 19 month old whom I never leave alone in the car. When I fill up petrol I either bring the baby in with me or wait till I have all my kids in the car (substantial age difference) and lock the car before I go in. I even lock the car when returning the trolley and I’m always within one car bay from the return!
I honestly hope this experience prevents their baby from disappearing for real!

My husband was at a shop counter one day with our eldest sitting in the trolley. I had gone to the bathroom and coming back saw the baby getting restless. I came and took the trolley, my husband didn’t notice). Our child began screaming for her daddy and nobody batted an eye lid in a busy shopping centre! My husband and I are from different ethnic backgrounds and our child most unmistakably takes after daddy. So there were many reasons to suspect I was a stranger who abducted a baby from a distracted father but no one took notice! And that’s the scary part. P.s. I didn’t do it to teach him a lesson, I just didn’t want our child to destroy the shop counter and only went about a few metres away

has she learnt not to do it again? what happens next time, someone may actually take the child and she will think it was her husband again, they are both at fault. I would have sat in the car waiting for her.

I see fault on both sides
The fact that mumma thinks it’s ok, and daddy trying to “trick” mumma into learning a lesson.
This spells trouble for sure!

I sometimes left my baby to pay for petrol but otherwise I didn;t do that.

I’ve always arranged things so I don’t have to leave my babies in the car… but having said that, I think he went too far in how he did it.

I think it had to be done. She is incredibly lucky that it was her husband and this didn’t happen for real. She needed a wake up call and hopefully now she got it. Completely irresponsible of her.

Nope, she needed the awakening I say

No way!! Good on the husband. In QLD its wayyyyy too hot to leave anyone in a car not turned on. And 6 minutes is not a “dash” into a store! I’m disgusted. Leave her in a car and see how she likes it. I really detest this!!!

While I think the Mum was acting irresponsible for leaving the child, I think the Dad could have gone about it in another way. Either way I hope that this is the wake up call that she needed and understands that you can’t do what she was doing.

His actions might be extreme, but I can certainly understand his concern. I hope she has seen just how quickly and easily things can turn disastrously.

With the amount of deaths because children have been left in a car, she should be grateful that this lesson was given to her. You just can’t judge how long you will be in a shop and not watching your child in the car as no-one has a crystal ball to see into the future. All sorts of things might happen to delay you. Also she didn’t have a very good eye on her child in the car or she would have seen her husband pullup beside her car. I think she has been taught a very worthwhile lesson and she should be apologising to him for having left her child in the car in the first place.

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  • • cherz replied
    • 22 Feb 2022 , 3:22 pm

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  Very well said.