You guys should start paying JLaw royalties for use of that gif.

So kissing your brother in public = public act of incest?

This woman has done a tremendous amount of activist work regarding international human rights and refugees, and you want to silence her for something she did 14 years ago? Ok.

I'm not talking about hypothetical situations. I'm talking about this particular incident. As parents, we measure risk every second of every day. You can't keep your kid-or yourself-in a box because of what MIGHT happen.

She admits because she had to. There's no point on trying to read into that. Maybe she means it, maybe she is just trying to fulfill her punishment and get this behind her.

It was 58* out. Those temperature spikes are in direct sunlight on 75*F+ days. In those situations it's because the car is closed up, the solution is to roll down all of the windows all of the way and voila, no car shaped solar oven.

But the people who forget them in a car all day aren't even in the same scenario as this woman. She was popping into the store and then they were going to the airport. The forgetting parents actually let a false memory enter their brains that they already dropped the kid at day-care, and then went to work for 8 hours.…

Sanity. If the parent fails to show up for say... 15 min or if it is hotter than X degrees it's a crime.

And yet it is safer to simply not let them rides bike, yes? Or how many parents have taken a kid on an errand because they asked to go even though it would technically be safer to leave them at home? That's the point. There are lots of things you can do to minimize risk, but every single person makes judgements on…

But was it really that dangerous?? People keep saying that like is is some indisputable fact and then talking about other situations that are drastically different. Was what she did actually more dangerous than say letting your kid ride a bike? How many kids are hurt or killed on those?

No, it's not. Children have to grow up, and they can't if they are not permitted to learn independence. Too many parents stifle their children's ability to practice using judgement and self-sufficiency. I believe—I hope—that parents are doing this out of love, but it is misguided and short-sighted. I raise children…

Yes, I mean it might be a mitzvah to check up on any babies left in cars and make sure someone is coming out to them (if someone had done that in the Weingarten cases the children could have been saved), but calling the police on Brooks was stupid.

But if you purposely leave your kid in the car you're not going to forget them. The kids who die are kids who fall asleep in their carseats on the way to daycare and the parent forgets. Not the kid who was sitting in the car while the parent ran into the store.

Oooh, aren't you wonderful? And you're instilling irrational fear in your kids who are going to grow up to accept the fact that they should be watched and monitored every minute of every day. Don't be surprised if they never want to leave home.

I am judging the person who wrote this article. It seems to me that she lacks common sense. What poor logic she has used in her deductive analogy. Forgetting one's child in the car, or leaving them there for hours in deadly conditions intentionally is not the same thing as purposely leaving them strapped in a car seat…

Tracy also conveniently left out this quote by Lenore Skenazy: "by far, the most dangerous thing you did to your child that day was put him in a car and drive someplace with him. About 300 children are injured in traffic accidents every day — and about two die. That's a real risk. So if you truly wanted to protect…

What pisses me off is the person who reported her.

A crazy parent whose daughter takes soccer with my daughter called the cops on me last month, for "child abandonment". I "abandoned" my daughter at the soccer class with the teacher while I took my other 2 children to the toilet. The teacher never leaves a kid alone, but while she went in the closet to put the soccer…

If we're going to go there with leaving kids in cars, then I think it is vastly more important to write a story about "don't do it, don't do it, don't do it" with even owning a gun if you are the parent of a child. An average of 37 children per year die left in cars. Over 3,000 children per year die because of a…

Thank you. I don't want to live in a world where people are calling the cops on each other just in case. Use your common sense!