If something is clear, clear, since I have children, is that you never have to leave them alone inside the car, for two reasons: a thousand things can happen to them and a thousand things can happen to us.
A New Zealand mother, on the other hand, seems not to be so clear, because a few days ago she parked her car in the parking lot of a shopping center and decided go shopping without your baby, who slept in his chair inside the car. In case the flies, he decided to put a paper on it written by hand that read the following: "My mother is making the purchase inside, call her if I need anything", followed by phone number.
A car with a couple parked next to their vehicle and they were amazed to see the scene. The child slept peacefully, warm and with the note on top. The woman, seeing him, refused to leave him alone and preferred to stay by his side waiting for the mother to return.
More people were added and a man decided to call the mother to come to take care of her son and end that lack of attention to the baby. The police said they will not open an investigation into what happened because no one made a complaint or there is no data to start investigating (the news has run thanks to the photo taken by the boy's partner).
As usually happens when such cases come to light, the community authorities took the opportunity to remember that it is very dangerous to leave a baby alone in a car:
Babies can quickly become dehydrated and distress. In addition, a young child is not able to defend himself if necessary, or to ask for help.
In this specific case, seeing the images, it is very possible that the risk of dehydration was minimal, because it does not seem to be hot in the area. However, we are talking about a baby, a helpless creature that can feel hungry and start crying, or worse, may regurgitate milk and need help breathing. We talk about the baby, but we also talk about the mother, who may suffer some mishap in the supermarket (see that it is rare to happen, but not impossible) and take longer than expected to return to the car.
The note, well, it's not bad ... since you leave your son alone in a car without worrying about what might happen to you, at least you have the delicacy of leaving a note so that the volunteers who do consider that they should watch you are notified if you need it.
