Replies to '12/22 Parents Falsely Accused'

Aside from my rant, I will say people also need to know sometimes realize what looks like a parent being neglectful can infact being a different picture.  Last night, I met of friend of mine whose a cop at a gas station.  We each pulled up to the pump.  I only had cash on me so I asked my friend if he would keep an eye on my kids while I went in and paid.  Mind you my friend is in uniform with his patrol car and I have three sleeping kids in the mini van.  The van is off but I have the windows rolled down some and it is 73 degrees outside.  So the kids are supervised by a police officer, they are buckled in, and not about to fry to death in the car.

Yet when I came out a woman in her 60s or so started yelling at me telling me how she was going to called child welfare.  I yelled back at her that my kids were being watched by police officer.  There of course was no come back or recovery for her.  My friend explained that the law says children need to be supervised but it doesn't say the person supervising has to be in the car.  He was on the other side of the pump so clearly had a child woke up and cried or needed help he was there and my kids know and love him. 

My point being is before you call child welfare make sure the picture is what it seems.  How much trouble would it have been for that old woman to say to me that it wasn't right for me to leave my kids in the car then come up in my face yelling at me?  Plus maybe we as a society should take a lesson from our grandparents.  If you see someone has left their kids in the car to run in for a second maybe you should be the adult and keep an eye out of that child or make sure that there isn't someone else watching for that child for the parent.  Remember every call you make has to be investigated.  So while you may call on a child left in a car who was being watching by an adult; nearby another child may have another minute, hour, day, or week of abuse.

If you see a parent whose kids are sleeping in the car and he/she needs to pay for gas or anything to that matter.  Would it kill anyone of us to volunteer, "Hey, I'll keep an eye on your kids while you go in a pay."  What's the worse that's going to happen?  You make a person's day a little easier.  Have you never need a break or hand in life?  I ask which will you want next time you are in need of help with your kids; someone tattling on you or someone with a good heart offering you help?