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In reply to the discussion: Man left baby in car for 8 hours (he's ok) outside work. Didn't realize until wife called [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)84. What gives you the confidence of saying there is no problem with this kind of memory failure?
The only persons who "keep telling me" are those who think the articles support their ideology over this kind of thing.
I go with the only thing I can, which is a reasoned understanding, albeit non-physician, non-the-less physiologic level of what kind of cognitive impairment we can all have. Again, I named how stress, sleep deprivation and pharmaceutic industries can contribute to.
There is a problem.
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Man left baby in car for 8 hours (he's ok) outside work. Didn't realize until wife called [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Jan 2013
OP
He is irresponsible, and I'm not looking to reward him for his choice to seek medical care, but you
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2013
#3
It's so discouraging that these threads so often end up as monuments of (self)righteousness
alcibiades_mystery
Jan 2013
#11
maybe it's a defense mechanism. We need to believe we'd never allow ourselves to make that mistake.
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#32
So true. Many idiots on the DU act like they never could bever make a serious mistake. n-t
Logical
Jan 2013
#51
Well thanks for the article, but it does nothing to present any "reason" this happens...
MrMickeysMom
Jan 2013
#17
you need to read the article. When we are stressed out/tired & routines are breached our higher
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#37
The Washington Post had a Pulitzer Prize Winning story on these kinds of incidents
charlie and algernon
Jan 2013
#14
Every single person responding to this post needs to read that article ALL the way
JanMichael
Jan 2013
#25
It is easy. I remember jumping in a car with my convulsing infant in my arms. As my husband
appleannie1
Jan 2013
#59
What do you think was terribly, terribly, terribly wrong? (Other than of course forgetting baby)
gollygee
Jan 2013
#44
Look, I'm as apt to have this problem as you are. Maybe I'm not clear on this...
MrMickeysMom
Jan 2013
#55
Skinner had an interesting post in another thread a while back on the same thing..
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#60
Shades of the old days - there were many children left in cars years ago or at home alone. The laws
jwirr
Jan 2013
#38
Read: Frazzled parent who works too many hours for too little pay bc of profit predators
LaydeeBug
Jan 2013
#39
Thank goodness everything is alright. I'm sure this poor man will punish himself...
Walk away
Jan 2013
#54
What gives you the confidence of saying there is no problem with this kind of memory failure?
MrMickeysMom
Jan 2013
#84
Just getting the baby up, fed, ready, out the door, strapped in; along with the other demands of the
NBachers
Jan 2013
#78
The Washington Post article is very sad, but also very instructive.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2013
#81