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...but one doesn’t ordinarily leave a 22 month old child to walk by himself in a parking lot.

New parents go through a process of realizing that their very young children are on the edge of doing something dangerous at all times - no matter where they are. It is a sacrifice to trail them around every minute when you are at working on a project, at a game or party, but you have to surrender yourself to the season of your child.

As with most vehicles, if a shorty is in a blind spot, up close behind the car, you are going to miss seeing him.

I feel bad for all the people involved in this tragedy.

Believe me, my heart goes out to everyone in this tragedy. I recollect ‘near misses’ with my kids simply because my attention was diverted for a moment.

I have noticed that more and more mothers are not tuned into the potential dangerous behaviors of their children because they are not caring for them for the majority of the day and really have no idea that a child is not a small rational adult. Kids are dropped off at a “safe”/”childproof” daycare at 7/8 in the morning and picked up at 5/6 that evening. The child is being raised in an artifically safe environment and is not being trained day in and day out about potential dangers that exist. As a stay at home mom my children came on almost all my errands and got lots of training in a real life environment. Heck my kids are teens and I still talk about not walking behind cars in a parking lot. One of the best things I ever did when they were very little was train them to STOP immediately in their tracks when I said STOP. Even a crawling baby can be taught to stop.