Some parents have no brains

[Mickey's Minion]

Here's the story. Yesterday I turned right onto a street and saw one of those power wheel cars with a kid who was about three driving it and the mother walking behind it. That would not have been anything significant, except the kid was driving it in the middle of the street and at the end. The mom saw me and did not really make any attempt to get out of the street - she made a shooing motion to the powerwheel car - like that is going to get it moving.

I realize the street I was turning onto does not have a lot of through traffic - most of hit is people who live there or are visiting someone there - but there they still drive cars that are much bigger than the powerwheel car and not everybody is paying attention when they drive, ie: texting, talking on the phone, fiddling with the radio, etc. and could easily run into her son.

If she is going to allow him to use it on the road, she should at least stay on the shoulder and not go all the way to the end where it comes in contact with a very busy road.

new rule since nobody got the first post

 

[Wishing on a star]

It sounds if the real issue was the this 'oblivious' mother felt that her 3 year old child should be able to stop traffic and make somebody have to trail behind at .03mph, the whole way up the road.... without having enough respect to have her child pull over.

If so... then I agree with the OP...

PS: We live on a safe cul-de-sac, and my son rode his various toys and bikes in the street all the time.... no way, ever, would he or I ever have remained in the middle of the road, blocking the way.....

 

[mamajoan]

I agree with OP.

I am a mom and grandmother and I believe that streets are for cars and trucks.. .not kids and their motorized vehicles.

Yes, we all should be aware and careful in residential areas.

Why can't the kids in those vehicles and motorized scooters use the sidewalks? use their parents driveways?, Park?


While it was good thing that the mom was shepherding the child in the vehicle ... the middle of the street is not where said child should be driving his ''toy''.

jmho

 

[lillygator]

seriously - motorized vehicles can't be on the street? most neighborhoods around here have NO sidewalks.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Then drive them in the yards, driveways, at least on the edge of the shoulder...

I may be in the minority here... But, a 3 year old right in the middle of the street who doesn't seem to move over for an adult in an automobile...

 

[diznygirl]

seriously - motorized vehicles can't be on the street? most neighborhoods around here have NO sidewalks.

I'm guessing it would depend on the laws where you live, but here they can only be operated on private property, not public. No streets or sidewalks. But people do it anyway.


I agree with the op - the mom was being thoughtless. A corner intersecting with a busy road is not a safe place for one of these slow-moving vehicles. Her kid could get creamed.

 

[mamajoan]

seriously - motorized vehicles can't be on the street? most neighborhoods around here have NO sidewalks.

seriously...



most residential streets have a speed limit of 25mph... how fast do the motorized vehicles move?

I don't mind waiting for kids playing ---really I don't... but kids in the street.. that is dangerous.... most mama's tell their kids "don't play in the street".

 

[Handbag Lady]

If the child was in the middle of the street and it was close to another street that has high traffic on it, and cars are turning off of the busy street onto the street where the child was, I would think that could potentially be very dangerous. Don't think I'd let my child ride in the middle of the street in that situation, even if I were right there with him.

I agree with you. What good is having the parent next to the child operating the toy vehicle if a car is going 45 on the turn (albeit slowing down) and plows right into both of them?