Did your co-worker's baby pass away?
Unfortunately, yes.
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Did your co-worker's baby pass away?
*snark alert* Because investors losing a cent or two a share for a few years is soooo obviously more important than a child's life, you know...
When the unit is manually turned off it beeps many times and displays the following warning message:
" SHUTTING DOWN "
"!! REMOVE K-9 !!"
We have developed and tested K-9 detection systems & pressure mats to detect the presence of the K-9 in the vehicle. During extensive testing we have found that they have shortcomings during installation and long term durability.
From this article linked above by daisy7:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...2/27/AR2009022701549.html?sid=ST2009030602446
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Seriously, read the article. There is a whole heck of a lot more material there that will change the way you see these parents. No matter how much confidence we have in ourselves as a parents, it could happen to any of us...
All JMO
Confession- When I am parking and it is hot out, if I see a carseat in the car next to mine I always check to make sure it is empty. I just started checking again this past week.
It could happen to any of us? Really? Most people manage not to forget their baby in the car. And you can use memory "tricks" if you are concerned about this issue and your memory. Put a bell on the carrier, have something with you that reminds you that a carrier in your car, etc. Don't just throw your hands up in the air and say "it can happen to anyone."
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Wow. Just...wow...
I think strings and teddy bears might work for a while but after a bit one can get habituated to their presence and they may some day fail to trigger alarms. At least that's what often happens to my visual reminders. I put the stuff I need to remember in a visible place so I'll see it when I leave and then I walk past it without even blinking anyway when it's time to go.
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It's only common sense that people can do things to help them remember not to forget their child in the car. Simple things that can prevent this sort of thing from ever happening. Yet it happens every year.
"Keep a large teddy bear in the child’s car seat when it’s not occupied. When the child is placed in the seat, put the teddy bear in the front passenger seat. It’s a visual reminder that anytime the teddy bear is up front, you’ll know the child is in the back seat in a child safety seat."
https://fletcherallenblog.wordpress...fety-protecting-your-child-from-hyperthermia/
You just proved my point - without reminder tools, it can happen to any of us. We here tend to be much more aware of these things, and thus will take such precautions, but good parents who are no less responsible, but not as well informed, will say 'who could forget their child?' and not take any precautions...a recipe for disaster that the parent is entirely unaware of.
I just don't see how it is their fault for being unaware of something that is frankly at the edges of public perception. Most parents don't get past the headlines of these stories - it's just too horrifying - so they just assume that it must be due to some real negligence. Add in the parental hubris that we are all sometimes guilty of (I'm a good parent, that would never happen to my child...), mix in the fact that this happens most often with new parents who are already overwhelmed by all of the changes to their lives and finish it all off with the realistic fact that this is, for all its tragedy, still an incredibly rare phenomenon...and yeah, I really don't find fault with their lack of preparation. It is, as the sales projections for the above mentioned safety devices show, the norm, the common paradigm. We are the unusual ones in this instance, the freakishly prepared.
All JMO
Teddy bear should only be in a front seat when the child is in a back seat, and not at all times.
I don't see anything freakish about being prepared for something as simple as not forgetting your child in a hot car. If that's what you need to remember, that's what you need to do.
It would still be there often enough to become a familiar sight and not something extraordinary that immediately alerts you that things are wrong.
Not saying that it isn't worth trying, just that if one is in the sort of preoccupied state of stress and sleeplessness that it creates a perfect storm and you fail to be alarmed that you didn't drop off the baby one might fail to be alarmed by the teddybear that is always in the car.
I'd feel better with a loud beeper.