Viral video on school drop off “Tuck and Roll!”

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this remind me that DCUM is full of people with sticks up their *sses. It's humor people.

+1. This is another great drop-off line rant! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_tlJVEZk6A

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I saw a TikTok reel on Instagram the other day of a mama enjoying "precious August memories" with her kids that included filming her 4-year-old son while she was driving and he was in the front seat, unbuckled and hanging his arms and head out the window.

The comments were lit about how unsafe that was, but she doubled down by saying "y'all don't understand because we live in a rural farm area." Um, yes, I do understand that as I grew up in that kind of area, which is how I know that deer jump out of the woods, and it's game over.

Mark my words: moms filming kids in an unsafe scenario is going to turn into a deadly situation someday, and the story will go viral for the saddest of reasons. People need to put down their damn phones when they are driving, and be more concerned with safety than getting attention.

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Where is it illegal for an 8+ yo to sit in the front?

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I don't disagree with most of her points, but ita just not that funny. I dont get the hype.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is it illegal for an 8+ yo to sit in the front?

Depending on height and weight, a lot of states. Age is not the only factor.

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Anonymous wrote:You never know why someone might be helped out of the car, don’t judge people.

I agree with this concept, but I also give benefit of the doubt that this video is not directed at parents whose kids actually need help getting out of the car. I have a niece with a pretty significant developmental disability. When she entered kindergarten, she had just learned to walk without the assistance of a walker. Parking on the street and walking up the hill to their school simply is not something she can physically do. She used to take a special education bus but the hour-long ride left her too agitated so her parents drive her instead (about five minutes from their house). They need to use the carpool line, and they need to get out of the car to help her out (a special education aide meets them at the car to escort their daughter into the school).

Realistically, it takes them less than 2 minutes to get out, get her out, get back in the car and pull out. If parents who don't actually need to do this for their kids didn't make a big production out of it, the total delay to the carpool line from my niece's arrival and the handful of other kids who might actually need the assistance would be negligible and I believe most decent people would understand it (those who wouldn't aren't worth my time). The parents who needlessly pull this nonsense because they get something out of it make the whole situation worse for everyone, and make the overall level of patience and compassion for those who actually need to get out of their car to help their kids a whole lot lower.

If your child has some kind of special needs that requires getting out of the car, by all means, go ahead and do it. But if you are using other people's kids with special needs as a weapon to deflect from your own rude behavior, there is a special place in hell for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is it illegal for an 8+ yo to sit in the front?

Depending on height and weight, a lot of states. Age is not the only factor.

So you agree, its not de facto illegal for every 8 year old to sit in the front seat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this remind me that DCUM is full of people with sticks up their *sses. It's humor people.

+1. This is another great drop-off line rant! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_tlJVEZk6A

This one is better. I remember seeing it last year!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this remind me that DCUM is full of people with sticks up their *sses. It's humor people.

Driving with young kids in the front seat is illegal, it's not funny. Using a phone while driving is illegal, it isn't funny. She could have done a "dry run" version of it in her driveway with the kids in the *back* seat and her not filming while driving, and that would have been great. She should not "joke" about keeping a car moving while kids are getting in and out. That puts kids and staff/volunteers/other drivers in harm's way, and that isn't humor.

Her overall theme of get them ready, practice, make it quick, don't use this time to kiss and chat is a good point. But unfortunately that got lost with her doing this in such an unsafe way.

I hate when handheld videos taken while someone is driving goes viral. People in the comments rarely point out how dangerous it is. But when people die falling off a cliff and taking selfies everyone shrugs and says “play stupid games win stupid prizes”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Threads like this remind me that DCUM is full of people with sticks up their *sses. It's humor people.

+1. This is another great drop-off line rant! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_tlJVEZk6A

This one is better. I remember seeing it last year!

That’s hilarious! She only gets funnier as the video goes on.

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I’m surprised no one realizes what would happen if they were in an accident and the boys had their backpacks on like that. Head should be against the headrest. They can hold backpacks in laps.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised no one realizes what would happen if they were in an accident and the boys had their backpacks on like that. Head should be against the headrest. They can hold backpacks in laps.

I noticed that, too. God forbid anyone express concern about a child’s safety on a parenting site, though. You’ll be accused of having a stick you-know-where.

(Incidentally, it’s quite funny that if someone disagrees with you, you immediately start screeching they have a stick up their ass, because that’s you know…not rigid thinking!)

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Anonymous wrote:You never know why someone might be helped out of the car, don’t judge people.

NP. At our school, the policy is that the parent cannot get out to help the child, but yes the child may be helped to a reasonable extent by the line staff/volunteers. But if a child needs significant help on a consistent basis, the parents should park and walk.

That being said, this video/“tutorial” is extremely unsafe in one regard: the car, should, indeed, come to a FULL STOP. It’s not funny or productive to even joke about “tuck and roll” or suggest that the car should not come to a full stop. It most certainly should, for the safety of the kids, the staff/volunteers helping to move the line along, and the other vehicles and drivers.

She did come to a full stop. She’s joking.

“Most importantly, we are yielding,” Witherspoon jokes. “It’s not a stop. It’s a yield… We’re gonna teach them how to tuck and roll.”

Even if she is joking, she did indeed have young kid in the front seat and was driving while filming.

neither kid was wearing a seatbelt and a quick sudden stop even at 5 mph a kids neck will snap with the backpack working as a fulcrum

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised no one realizes what would happen if they were in an accident and the boys had their backpacks on like that. Head should be against the headrest. They can hold backpacks in laps.

What kind of collision are you imagining in a car line in a school parking lot?

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Not a video but my absolute favorite carline rant of all time was this:

"I'm only going to say this once. If you have to bathe and dress your kid, comb their hair, scramble them an egg, and write them a send-off letter before they can exit the car, YOU DO NOT BELONG IN THE SCHOOL DROP OFF LINE," the Nashville mom wrote in a now-viral Facebook post. "Only people who raised their kids to jump out of the car with backpacks loaded like they are storming the beaches of Normandy while the car is at a slow roll are allowed in the drop off line."

And yes of course the car should be fully stopped. But only for about 15 seconds. Goodbyes and I love you’s should be already said and for the love of God don’t sit there to watch them walk inside.