DC parents leave kids in car for wine tasting

[Anonymous]

I'm sure it's a misunderstanding. The parents seem like outstanding, highly educated professionals. There must be a simple explanation. Maybe they expected to take their kids into the wine tasting and were told they couldnt. So what do do? Maybe one parent checked on them every few minutes and kids were probably asleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure it's a misunderstanding. The parents seem like outstanding, highly educated professionals. There must be a simple explanation. Maybe they expected to take their kids into the wine tasting and were told they couldnt. So what do do? Maybe one parent checked on them every few minutes and kids were probably asleep.

I guess they are so busy with their prestigious careers and wine tastings that they don't keep up with news stories about other parents being thrown in jail for similar incidents???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All internet ridicule aside, let he without sin and so forth. I've made my 9 year old sit outside in bitter cold weather for a time out when he was about to bring everyone in the house to their knees with fear and anguish. Some might consider that abuse.

He's 9, not 2.
He was outside your house, not strapped into a parked car out of your site.
He was not strapped to anything: he had hTe ability, and the common sense , to move if danger came.
You probably limited the outside time to less than an hour.

It was @ 10 minutes. He as wearing a sweat shirt and jeans, it was @ 30F. But I wonder if someone passing by our house that night had seen him out there crying and called the police, I'm not sure they would seen this as reasonable punishment.

So this was your version of a time out for a 9 yr old?!? Lame.

The 3 and 1 yr old in this case haven't done anything to deserve being left in a cold car for at least an hour and the parents left them there to attend a wine tasting.

Why is my time out lame? They say you should do around 1 minute per year of life. What should I have done when he was threatening everyone in the house verbally and refusing to listen to reason?

Did he respond to the time out?

[Anonymous]

I hope you are kidding, 8:44. I get that some parents...especially Europeans...are more lax in supervising little ones (like Madeleine McCann's parents). But this is beyond absurd. There's simply no excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure it's a misunderstanding. The parents seem like outstanding, highly educated professionals. There must be a simple explanation. Maybe they expected to take their kids into the wine tasting and were told they couldnt. So what do do? Maybe one parent checked on them every few minutes and kids were probably asleep.

So what to do? One parent returns home with the kids.

[Anonymous]

So, I'm not familiar with Ris--it's a restaurant, but on this particular day/time they were having a special wine tasting event? Was it something you had to reserve in advance/pay for in advance? Or is this "wine tasting" the standard activity at Ris?

[Anonymous]

I wonder how they tracked down the parents at Ris.

[Anonymous]

To 9:03 - Does it matter??? No.

And to PP: Clearly someone saw the couple get out of the car and walk into the restaurant and called the cops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To 9:03 - Does it matter??? No.

And to PP: Clearly someone saw the couple get out of the car and walk into the restaurant and called the cops.

Nope. The kids were in the car for at least an hour before a passerby saw them and called the cops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is C-10?

It is the courtroom where prisoners are first brought after arrest the night before. The prisoner's arrest record and risk of flight is assessed by a hearing commissioner, a US Attorney attempts to keep prisoners locked up and defense counsel is appointed.

[Anonymous]

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I'm sure it's a misunderstanding. The parents seem like outstanding, highly educated professionals. There must be a simple explanation. Maybe they expected to take their kids into the wine tasting and were told they couldnt. So what do do? Maybe one parent checked on them every few minutes and kids were probably asleep.

Yes I think the "highly educated" parents thought one of the kids could be a designated driver. Just because the are "highly educated" does not mean they are smart or above the law. It just means they can paid for a lawyer.

[Anonymous]

I like Ris....food is really good.

[Anonymous]

Americans are so uptight.

[Anonymous]

FLORK! WE GOIN TO JAIL!

[Anonymous]

I'm sure it's a misunderstanding. The parents seem like outstanding, highly educated professionals. There must be a simple explanation. Maybe they expected to take their kids into the wine tasting and were told they couldnt. So what do do? Maybe one parent checked on them every few minutes and kids were probably asleep.


I guess they are so busy with their prestigious careers and wine tastings that they don't keep up with news stories about other parents being thrown in jail for similar incidents???

I'm guessing that this is the case as well-- thought they could bring their kids in, and then found out they couldn't. I disagree with the misunderstanding part, because when they found out kids wouldn't be allowed to come in, they should have gone back home. Leaving two little kids in the car is inexcusable.