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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Title says it all- there's a mom who has a napping baby in the car while she picks up her kid from daycare. She has to enter the building, go around the corner, sign out the kid, and get back to the car.  Car is running. There isn't normally space right out front-but it's not a far walk.  I timed it-child is unaccompanied in the car for about two minutes. Say something? Or MYOB.[/quote]

Since you have the time to time her while she's away from the car, Why don't you ask her if she'd like for you to stay at the car and watch her sleeping baby while she runs in to grab her kid? That would probably be the best way to help out a fellow parent who appears to be juggling conpeting schedules for her kids. [/quote]

OP, you could learn a lot from this poster and 00:27, who both came at this situation from a compassionate, helpful angle.

Too bad you are too self-absorbed to listen to them.[/quote]

Are you really suggesting that I coordinate my daily schedule with this women so I can stand by her car for two extra minutes every day? [/quote]

You're missing the point.  You immediately think about how you can get this woman in trouble (timing her? Really?).  A good person, like the PPs, would ask first how they can help this woman.  Shame on you.[/quote]

You're missing the point. I'm not timing her to get her in trouble. I'm timing her to make sure the baby isn't alone in a car for an unreasonable amount of time. And I'm not trying to "get her in trouble". Please grow up. I'm trying to gauge whether this behavior is sufficiently risky that I should raise it with her or have the center raise it with her.  And I can't reorganize my life to make sure I coincide with her at daycare so I can stand by her car or check out her child (which would not even be permissible).  So please stop obsessing about this-it's not going to happen.  [/quote]

Backpedal, rewrite, deflect, backpedal some more...[/quote]

Or...just read my post where I said EXACTLY that. [/quote]

"I don't want to spend my free time helping her out."[/quote]

That's right, I don't.  If you had bothered to read further you will also see why I timed her and it was not to "get her in trouble".  I have my own family to take care of.  I'm interested in the welfare of the kid, not interested in becoming part of her village, nor is it realistic.  I guess the question, since I have to spell it out for dense and obsessive people like yourself is GOING FORWARD should I raise it with her/the center. Since, as previously noted, I cannot time my entire life to meet her at daycare and stand by her car. [/quote]

Yeah, I mean, just because her child goes to your child's school, why should you be part of her village? Don't we know how important and busy you are? [/quote]

Come on now, enough with the "village thing".  The mother is 100% capable of watching her own child and it is 100% that mother's responsibility to do so.  Op doesn't want the responsibility of watching the child (Op has her own kids to watch), she just feels uneasy seeing the child left alone in a running car.  I can understand that.

I would make vague mention of it to the director and ask her to put out a letter reminding parents not to leave their kids alone in the preschool parking lot.  No need to get all Cagney and Lacy with surveillance - just something vague "Oh, I think I saw someone leave a little one alone in their car the other day during pick up.  Maybe you should put out a reminder about that?"  The end. Done.[/quote]

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