Parents: Maybe you shouldn't read this post

[marag]

Y'know how people lj-cut posts with triggery warnings when they're going to talk about rape or child sexual abuse or eating disorders? I think I'd like the news sites to start giving me warnings before they talk about dead children. ::shudders:: 'Cause apparently reading news articles about dead kids freaks me out and I'd like that to stop

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[heidi8]

Ditto. Just, to everything.

And in my Catie-pregnancy, I was terrified about talking within my own lj, much less anywhere else, about my due date because of the things about women being murdered for their babies.

so, just, yeah.

[silent_ic_river]

Oh dear God. I...

Word.

Fail.

My heart goes out to the family. That poor, poor child.

[maiac]

The police in this area are VERY VERY STRICT about children being left in the car, even when the weather isn't hot. People in general are aware of the danger. There have been cases of parents coming back to the car to find a police officer waiting for them to tell them their child is in custody and they are under arrest, because someone alerted the police to the unattended child. But y'know, that's a hell of a lot better than coming back to find your child couldn't endure the heat.

I get a little crazy, too, when I see dogs left in cars. Even with the window rolled down a bit, it gets too damned hot in there. Can't these people figure that out from how hot the car is when they get back into it?

[artaxastra]

I can't read those articles anymore. I just can't.....

[marag]

::nods:: You'd think I'd know better, but I apparently I don't!

* sympathetic noises*

[bunnyjadwiga]

The fact that we worry when you read an article like that is part of our brains' (hyper-)planning to keep us from having something like that happen. The fact that it's ridiculous to worry about it doesn't stop our brains-- give them something to worry over, and they will. (Yes, I have turned around to check that I didn't leave Miss B. in the car on days I didn't even drive her to school.)