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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really surprised by the responses. I would tell the daycare and then myob. If I happened to be doing drop off or pick up at the same time I would watch from my car until she returned but the expectation that OP coordinate her schedule with this mom is ridiculous. It is not okay to leave your baby in a car!  I only do it if I am in my own driveway. [/quote]

What makes your driveway inherently more safe than a daycare center?  It's a false security.

OP - mind your own business.  This woman has made a calculation that leaving a sleeping baby for 2 minutes is an acceptable risk, just as you have decided that letting your child ride in a car at all is an acceptable level of risk.

She's not doing anything wrong, and you need to butt out.  [/quote]

The difference between a private driveway and a daycare center's parking lot is - ownership.  You own your own driveway while the daycare center owns the center parking lot.  The owner gets to make the rules.

I used to leave my kids strapped in their seats in the driveway while I ran in/out of the house unloading groceries.  Why?  Because they were either sleeping or I needed for them to be contained for a few minutes while I ran groceries inside the house.  I didn't have a garage...so the car was parked in my driveway.  I suppose I could have taken the kids inside, put them in a playpen to scream or let them run around freely and unsupervised while I unloaded the groceries but what sense would that make?

I suppose some sort of freak car jacking could have happened.  But something easily as freakish could have happened if I took the kids inside the house - maybe the house could have exploded into flames while I was unloading the groceries from the car....ugh.  People do not understand risk.

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