I saw a 2-3 yo DRIVING today!

[John VN]

Doctors still smoke and drinkers still drive and children still don't pay attention to parents.

So what else is new?

I did not do it with my children and will not do it with my grandchildren.

No matter where I am, even if I am in my driveway.

But that is me.

John

 

[SetzKitten]

Once when I was driving home from work, I saw a caravan type vehicle that had a 2 seater couch strapped to the roof. There was a 9 or 10 year old kid laying on the couch!!!! This was on a fairly busy 2-lane road. I couldn't believe my eyes.

 

[disneyfan551]

It's a good thing my dh didn't see this! He is a State Trooper and gets upset enough when children aren't in car seats. But, for a child to be in the driver's seat, that is unnecessary! Why risk the life of a child just to do something they might like? My 2yo would love a strawberry daicquiri too, but I'm sure not going to give her one! Just take them to an amusement park and let them drive bumper cars! It doesn't take alot to amuse a child.

 

[nemo1987]

Originally posted by cynsaun
That takes a special kind of idiot!

that's funny right there i don't care who you are! lol its not funny that the lady let her kid ride through the sunroof, but that quote killed me!!!
yeah i have seen some people let their kids help them "drive" on the interstate! oh my goodness! who does this anyways??? i am starting to wonder. when i babysat for this one family the littlest one was spoiled very badly and she would always say "oh mama can i drive??" and her mom would always say yes. i mean come on! no matter where they were going she always lets her. duh!! not good....
**Sarah**

 

[MHopkins2]

Another vote here for interstate = bad but cul de sac = no big whoop. Just because we're all on fire about "safety" "these days" doesn't mean all of the new beliefs are 100% correct. I think we overreact to any number of things, and the posts on this thread are just one more example.

Get ready to be horrified... When I was 6, we lived in a small town where everyone knew everyone else. My dad would drive down Main Street (at about 15 mph) in his chick-a-mow Corvette with the t-tops off, and I would stand up in my seat with my head out the roof giving people my best beauty queen wave. Could I have been killed? Sure. What were the chances of that? Pretty darn slim.

While we're on the topic, I also think it's absurd to make kids wear a helmet to ride their bikes on a level sidewalk. Flame away!

 

[frustrated]

Can I flame first? Please! Please! About helmets! A friend of ours was riding her bike last summer with her son. She was not wearing helmet. She ran into a car. (The car did not run into her.) She broke both arms, and cracked her skull! Needless to say, she now wears her helmet.

Driving with your dad, I bet you had a great time! No air bags to worry about!

Have a good one...now I will get the popcorn and watch everyone get the flame throwers out!

 

[MHopkins2]

Frustrated - see the part of my helmet sentence about a sidewalk.

 

[frustrated]

The really sad part is that she was on the sidewalk! The car was there loading something! A year later it is a hoot! At the time, we were helping her eat!

 

[disneyfan551]

Like someone said earlier... "that's why they call them ACCIDENTS!" Things can happen when and where you least expect them!

 

[nemo1987]

Originally posted by MHopkins2
While we're on the topic, I also think it's absurd to make kids wear a helmet to ride their bikes on a level sidewalk. Flame away!

hahahahahaah kids look ridiculous in helmets! there will be flames here for me too! if they are on level sidewalk no way the only time they may need them in on the road and kids shouldn't be in the road on bikes so... flame away to me too!
**Sarah**

 

[disneyfan551]

Who cares what they look like! As long as it keeps my child safe, then I'm all for it!

You know I completely forgot that kids are always where they are supposed to be, doing what their parents allow, and always thinking logically...

 

[AirForceRocks]

Originally posted by MHopkins2
Another vote here for interstate = bad but cul de sac = no big whoop. Just because we're all on fire about "safety" "these days" doesn't mean all of the new beliefs are 100% correct. I think we overreact to any number of things, and the posts on this thread are just one more example.

I'm with you. When my kids were smaller, I let them sit on my lap and "drive" around our cul-de-sac.

 

[onecoolmama]

Originally posted by AirForceRocks
I'm with you. When my kids were smaller, I let them sit on my lap and "drive" around our cul-de-sac.

I think there is a pig flying somewhere!

You and I agree

 

[MHopkins2]

Originally posted by frustrated
The really sad part is that she was on the sidewalk! The car was there loading something! A year later it is a hoot! At the time, we were helping her eat!

Poor thing, but... LOL! She must have felt mighty silly!!

 

[frustrated]

Originally posted by MHopkins2
Poor thing, but... LOL! She must have felt mighty silly!!

YOu learn a lot about a friend when they have to trust you to feed them! We laughed a whole lot! Then the poor gal broke both of her legs in the fall!

 

[6_Time_Momma]

Originally posted by nemo1987
hahahahahaah kids look ridiculous in helmets! there will be flames here for me too! if they are on level sidewalk no way the only time they may need them in on the road and kids shouldn't be in the road on bikes so... flame away to me too!
**Sarah**

Oh, I do think they need them on sidewalks, too. My nephew simply lost control and fell off his bike stiking his head on the sidewalk requiring 10 stitches and an overnight stay in the hospital due to concussion.

I don't have a problem with kids going in the driveway sitting on parents laps, but I don't think I would go into the road at all.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

This is a totally honest question, there are so many laws out there, but.....Does anyone know if it is against any law for a child to sit on the lap of a driver while on a road...This would include a cul-de-sac....??

 

[AirForceRocks]

Originally posted by hrh_disney_queen
This is a totally honest question, there are so many laws out there, but.....Does anyone know if it is against any law for a child to sit on the lap of a driver while on a road...This would include a cul-de-sac....??

I'm sure it is against the law.

 

[RachelEllen]

That would have had me fuming. I had a really, really creepy thing happen a few years ago. I was driving at rush hour behind a minivan with small child standing in the back with her hands and face pressed up against the glass. It took me about 10 minutes of feeling that something 'wasn't right' before I figured out that my discomfort was seeing a kid that small not in a car seat. (It's hard to explain, but I wasn't paying super close attention because I was watching the road, so it was a very vauge feeling of something in my visual field being 'off') Anyhow, after I noticed, I watched the kid for about 5 more minutes until I left the highway.

That night on the news was a report about a crash on that highway that killed two small children about the same time I was there. I was 99% sure that the picture of one of the kids was that face I saw in the window.

It's made me a bit more obnoxious about saying something when I see kids in unsafe situations.

Rachel

 

[Melora]

When I was a kid we owned a 1959 cadillac limo..I never thought it was weird that we drove around in it! I used to lay (yes LAY) on the back of the front seat stretched out. It was very wide because it had a glass window that went up and down for privacy.

All I can think of now is what if my dad had to slam on the brakes? I would have taken off their heads and then gone straight through the windshield.

When my older kids were little, we lived in the Hollywood hills down a private driveway. My ex used to let the kids sit in his lap as they drove down the dirveway. You know I never really thought anything about it since they only went about 3 miles an hour and the car didnt have airbags and there was of course no other cars.