My advice on leaving children alone in cars:
DON'T!
Never mind that a child can suffocate in the heat, freeze in the cold, slip down in the carseat and choke on a strap, escape the carseat and start the car, or be abducted!
No, what you don't want is to be in the shoes of the two young women in line at the post office - when the cop came in and asked the owner of the car with the kids to step forward...
What I can't understand is, if there are two adults and unknown number of children, why would both adults need to come in to the post office? If they couldn't handle bringing the kids in with them, certainly one could have stayed in the car. If they needed to talk, they had cell phones. If they needed to talk privately, well, we could all hear their conversation while in the post office...
The lines at the post office are notoriously long, but there is no good reason to leave a child alone in a car.
P. S. OMG! I just remembered I left my own daughter in the car when I went into the post office the other week, AND I gave her the car keys!
(She is 20 years old... She could have driven off to a colder climate, become frozen, slid down and choked on the seat belt, and been arrested for neglect of an elderly person. How dangerous is that?! Like I said, DON'T leave kids alone in the car!)
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