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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]Wow, this thread.

I am curious what the security guard's behavior would have been if OP was a man.

I also used to read in the car at this age while my mom ran errands. She generally gave me a choice. She would not have left the car running so the choice would have been "stay in the uncomfortably hot car and read or come on the boring errand with AC." I usually chose car because I like being warm and love reading.

Some of you are overstating the risk of carjacking. Also isn't the security guard there to prevent carjacking?

I do this sometimes when I need to run in the house to grab something (we live in an apartment building). If I know it will only be a couple minutes, and I can look out the window to check on DC if I need to. DC knows how to get out of the car and come in the building on their own if they needed to.

It's actually good for kids to earn some independence and trust as they get older. It's good parenting to give them opportunities to be alone in public spaces in small doses. In a few years my kid will be in middle school and will be riding a public bus to school on their own. How will they reach the point where that is possible if they are never left alone in public for even a few minutes before the age of 10?[/quote]

So for all of you folks arguing that OP was fine, how many of you leave your 7 year old in a running car? Sadly I still have to run errands in person on occasion. I have never seen this but I see ton of kids in the store, I think most of you don’t actually live what you are saying. [/quote]

The running car thing isn't all the time-- I have done that once or twice if it was really hot out but would otherwise not leave the car running. I'd lock it either way.

And yes-- as a parent if an elementary age kid I have left my kid in the car for a short errand many times. This is normal.  There are situations where I wouldn't do it (bad or unfamiliar neighborhood, anyone sketchy-looking nearby, any chance I'd be detained longer than I think) but the situation OP describes is one where I definitely would do it. Safe neighborhood and picking up a prescription I know is ready? And also a situation where it would be easy to go check on my kid if I needed to (say it turned out the scrip wasn't quite ready-- I could just go back to the car until it was).

I really do not get what the big deal is. Some of you seem insanely stressed about carjacking even though this is really not a something that happens outside of cities and a handful of close in suburbs.[/quote]

Why not leave the engine running every time?

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DP, but presumably because it’s not adding value to the child’s comfort to leave the engine running every time.  I would assume the default would be engine off, but if the situation seemed to warrant it maybe leave it on every once in awhile.

I truly hope you are not as dumb as you seem in this thread.  Because… talk about someone who shouldn’t be a parent…[/quote]

Dumb like OP, you mean?

So the default is engine off. Why? Saving gas?[b] Yes, obviously.[/b] Not polluting the planet? [b]Also yes, again, obviously [/b] Safety, perhaps? [b]What do you think is unsafe about a parked car with the engine running?[/b] Couldn’t all these benefits be achieved by turning off the engine every time and rolling down the windows?  [b]Sometimes when it’s really GD hot outside rolling down the windows does absolutely nothing.  Have you ever even stepped foot in the DC area in August?[/b]

Do you leave your child in a car alone with the engine running?  [b]Not regularly, but I have and I will again if it tickles my fancy to do so.[/b]

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Is the child going to melt sitting in the car with windows open for ten minutes? Isn’t that building resilience?

Every time you do this from now on, you will remember this thread and it will make you so mad all over again.

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Great.  I am happy to continue to do things like this to trigger busybodies like you. [/quote]

The security guard was the “busybody” here. It could have been a police officer. OP got off easy. [/quote]

And for the millionth time, it was perfectly legal.  So what exactly do you think a police officer would or should have done?  Shot her?

You are mind-bogglingly stupid.[/quote]

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