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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get the urge, but don’t.

Even if it technically legal in your podunk state…don’t. Carjackings are on a major rise all over the country, in all demographics. Turning to use the atm - which was the og question- will have you distracted enough to not be supervising. Beyond that there are so many other things that can go wrong.

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Lol are you closely supervising your sleeping baby while you are driving the car? And speaking of “so many things can go wrong”— that’s literally what driving in your car is, every time. So are things like leaving your baby in the care of others.

The truth is that something could always happen. Statistically, your child is more likely to be in a car accident than to be snatched from your car when you are standing a few feet away. They are more likely to fall off a piece of furniture or choke on food they grab off another child’s plate at daycare than to overheat in a car in a few minutes time. I’m really not sure why people are so fixated on this situation as so dangerous. Life is inherently dangerous, but we assess risk and find a way to figure it out. I think many people on this thread are being incredibly hypocritical here.[/quote]

Because it's easy to take your child out of the car fir a trip to the ATM. Meanwhile, it's hard to structure your life in such a way that your child is never in a car/susceptible to a car accident. Life is dangerous, yes. No one is denying that by saying not to take a completely unnecessary risk.[/quote]

It’s not necessarily easy to take your child out of the car to go to an ATM, and doing so isn’t necessarily safer than leaving them in the car. I have a 5 year old with special needs that is a severe elopement risk. He’s not going to reliably stand by my side at an ATM. The risk of him running off into road is much greater than the risk something is going to happen to him in the car. And when he and his twin sibling were younger, but old enough to be out of carrying car seats, it would be very hard to take them out of the car. I'm not going to set up a tandem stroller to go 10ft. I'd leave one in the car while I'd carry the other into the house. And yes, I'd leave them in the car to walk up to an ATM as long as I could still see them.[/quote]

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