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[quote=Anonymous]I will say this is one of many reasons I'm glad I had my baby in the city where I didn't drive much. I hated getting my baby in and out of the carseat. If you don't drive, you can put your baby in a stroller or carrier and never have to think about this. Your baby falls asleep, great, it does not impact your errands in any way. You can pick up a toddler from half day care, give them a snack in the stroller, and if they pass out on the way home, you just wheel them into the house and let them finish the nap there. And so on.

That said, I do not actually think a baby is unsafe if left in a car for a few minutes while their parent is a few feet away and can keep the baby and car in their sightline. This seems fine to me and I wouldn't judge someone for it. I'd probably even offer to watch the baby if they needed to run inside somewhere for a few minutes! But people are insane and I wouldn't want to risk someone calling CPS on me and that would be the main reason I wouldn't do this.

Just recently my kid asked if she could stay in the car and read her book while I went into a store while we were running errands in the burbs, and I had to say no for this reason. I remember enjoying doing this  exact thing as a kid -- sitting in the warm backseat of a car and reading a new library book while my mom grocery shopped or whatever. Heavenly. But you can't do stuff like that now even though kids are safer now than they were when I was a kid. It's too bad and I don't think it's good for kids in the long run. Like I said, people are nuts.[/quote]

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