Is it just me or is this sad?

[disturbed child]

Last Friday, my parents went out to eat at this restaurant and when they pulled into the parking lot, there were these two little boys - one was about 4 years old and the other was about 6 years old - sitting in the back of a car in freezing cold weather, hungry, and crying their eyes out... while their parents were inside eating dinner! Their parents were talking to people inside the restaurant saying that the kids were misbehaving so their punishment was sitting in the car and not getting fed. When my mom and dad told me about this, I could have just cried! That is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever heard. Can you just picture two little boys, cold and hungry, bawling their eyes out while their parents were enjoying a nice warm meal? I'm sorry, but despite what those kids did, making them go without food and freeze in a car and cry their eyes out is no way to punish them. They didn't deserve that at all!

What do you think?

[Mossopp]

Well, it depends what the kids did. If you ask me, kids these days don't get enough dicipline. If locking them in the car is the only way to teach 'em a lesson then so be it.

[vienna waits]

Thats really sad and very mean of the parents. I find it sickening that parents would do that. You do not leave young boys in a cold car while you go in and eat! And they could have been kidnapped.. even if the car was locked some freak could see those kids and break out the window to get them. Not feeding a child as a punishment is something I'm never going to do when I have kids. Thats just gross. It's sad the kind of parents a lot of kids have.

[Janice]

It's illegal in any state to leave 4 and 6 year olds unattended anywhere, even at home. It's dangerous. Someone should have reported those morons to the authorities. I would have called the police.

[-*Forever*-]

That makes me so mad I wanna kick the parents.

[°Bubbly Blonde°]

That's just messed!!!!:o Even if the kids did something really bad, I just can't see how a parent could do that to their children.

[InspectorExstead]

that's child abuse....it IS sad...no child deserves abuse. no matter what the children did. the children are kids...they don't know better. but the parents, should and do know better. i mean, if u were gonna leave ur kids in there the least you could do is like leave the heater on for them....u don't want em to get a cold or anything...but, that was sad. the situation, what the parents did, and picturing two little helpless, defensless boys sitting in the car freezing...

[Ewan's My Man]

That's sad. Somethin like this happened here in MD. My aunt and cuz's were coming out of a movie theatre and they heard a car alarm and saw someone moving around in a car. So they went over to the car and their was a little girl inside. It was burning up outside and she could have died if my aunt didn't come over. So, NEwayzie, they were able to get the girl out and she wet herself on my cuz, Andy. The sick part is, the father was inside watching X-Men with his son and his son's friend. Even worse, he only got like a $100 fine. Freakiness...

[DJM77]

That's just cruel and unusual punishment! Especially for kids that young.

[FOLrocks1]

Originally posted by #1JoFan
That's sad. Somethin like this happened here in MD. My aunt and cuz's were coming out of a movie theatre and they heard a car alarm and saw someone moving around in a car. So they went over to the car and their was a little girl inside. It was burning up outside and she could have died if my aunt didn't come over. So, NEwayzie, they were able to get the girl out and she wet herself on my cuz, Andy. The sick part is, the father was inside watching X-Men with his son and his son's friend. Even worse, he only got like a $100 fine. Freakiness...

The dad left her in their on purpose?!!?!? That's TERRIBLE!

[Montana Ponine]

:eek: Sheeeesh that's horrible!!!! I can't believe that... wow. some people these days... that's pretty bad!!! :mad:

[DarleneIllyria]

Some people just shouldn't be parents. Yes, children do act bad- pull them aside and scold them or pop them once. Just because you pop your kids once doesn't mean you abuse children 24/7. Locking them in cars does make you a child abuser.

[Kitt]

When parents go out to dinner with their young children, and the children act up then the parents should be prepared to leave the restaraunt with the children. Life with young children takes on different responsibilties. Expect to face them everyday. Don't expect children to know how to act the way you think they should at all times. Be sure that the kids understand that the fun dinner you were all about to have has been lost due to their behavior. Maybe next time they'll remember that and behave better. To TORTURE the young children by leaving them cold, scared and alone is dangerous, and a gross neglect of parental duties.

[MyStErIoUs ChIck]

OMG....that's terrible. Those poor little kids... :(

[17Mar59]

I concur and agree 100% with kittflynn on this subject.
Either cancel the dinner right away and walk out of the restruant
or else take the kids aside and give them a little scolding and
make them to promise they will behave and if it happens again
THEN get up walk out the door and go home and make the
kids go to bed without anything to eat.That's how most of us
were treated when we misbehaved when we were kids.I guess
some parents these days don't have any comonsense when it
comes to discipline.

[°Bubbly Blonde°]

Originally posted by Jenny
Some people just shouldn't be parents. Yes, children do act bad- pull them aside and scold them or pop them once. Just because you pop your kids once doesn't mean you abuse children 24/7. Locking them in cars does make you a child abuser.
Indeed!

[dawsongirl]

That's awful. :mad:

I remember my parents telling me about times when I'd act out in public. Usually my dad would take me out of the store, restaurant, etc. and go to the car, but he always stayed there with me!

Not too long ago, some woman left her two kids in the car on a rather cold day here so she could go in and...gamble.

And some of you might have heard about Iowa's biggest star, the woman who left her 7 month old in her minivan in 90 degree weather because she...forgot. The woman FORGOT she had put her daughter in the car. How in the h*** can you FORGET you put your kid in the car?! She blamed it on stress from work. THEN GET A DIFFERENT JOB!! This poor little defenseless girl lost her life because her mother was a moron not suitable for parenthood. AND SHE GOT AWAY WITH IT. No jail time, nothing. She'd go on TV and blubber about how much she loved her kids and so on. Nice try for sympathy, but it was all bull.

Sorry for the rant, but that woman made me sick.

[disturbed child]

My parents were going to call the police... I know my mom got their license plate number, but I don't think she called. If I were in that parking lot, I would have probably broken the friggin car window open and took the little kids out and rapped them in thousands of blankets and let them eat all the food they wanted! I asked my parents why they didn't try to get the kids out of the car, and they just said that they couldn't do that. I sure as hell would have! I don't care if breaking into a car is illegal or not, those children did NOT deserve that and I would do everything in my power to get them out of there and taken care of.

dawsongirl ~ I never heard of that! When did it happen? That's so awful! You can't "just forget" where you put your child! That stupid lady... errrr, sickening. And that poor little gurl! That's a shame.

[Kay Scarpetta]

that is REALLY wrong....I mean like you all said, what if they were kiddnapped? If I were there I would have gone up to the parents and honest of God I'm only 13 but I would have started yelling at them

[*Marilyn Monroe*]

Last summer, there was a little girl that was left in her mom's car on accident all day. Summer is really hot here, and the poor girl died. I cried when i read it in the newspaper. All i can think of is whenever my mom or dad go to the gas station or something, they leave us in the car and lock us in so no one can steal the car, and it gets hot. But that's the closest thing that i can come to, and leaving your child, purposely, locked in a car, is MEAN! :mad:

[Blair85]

That is depressing. Why did the parents go out to eat if they weren't gonna let the boys eat? I guess they could've acted up going to the resturant but that's no reason not to let them eat!!! I don't believe in not feeding kids as a punishment! That's just stupid & cruel! I know a woman who used to eat steak in front of her kids & just feed them mac & cheese (not that mac-n-cheese isn't good) but she'd say that they didn't like meat. Then one day the woman's daughter was @ my house & my mom had fixed a beef roast & the girl asked if she could have a bite so mom said sure & turned around to finish cooking. Well when she turned back around a little bit later, the girl had eaten the WHOLE roast & said that her mom never let her have meat @ home!!!!!! It was a pretty big roast too. I don't see why a person wouldn't feed their kids.:( It is very sad.

[*Marilyn Monroe*]

Originally posted by dawsongirl
And some of you might have heard about Iowa's biggest star, the woman who left her 7 month old in her minivan in 90 degree weather because she...forgot. The woman FORGOT she had put her daughter in the car. How in the h*** can you FORGET you put your kid in the car?! She blamed it on stress from work. THEN GET A DIFFERENT JOB!! This poor little defenseless girl lost her life because her mother was a moron not suitable for parenthood. AND SHE GOT AWAY WITH IT. No jail time, nothing. She'd go on TV and blubber about how much she loved her kids and so on. Nice try for sympathy, but it was all bull.


That's the woman that i was talking about ^ there. It's just awful!

[Montana Ponine]

Originally posted by dawsongirl
That's awful. :mad:

I remember my parents telling me about times when I'd act out in public. Usually my dad would take me out of the store, restaurant, etc. and go to the car, but he always stayed there with me!

Not too long ago, some woman left her two kids in the car on a rather cold day here so she could go in and...gamble.

And some of you might have heard about Iowa's biggest star, the woman who left her 7 month old in her minivan in 90 degree weather because she...forgot. The woman FORGOT she had put her daughter in the car. How in the h*** can you FORGET you put your kid in the car?! She blamed it on stress from work. THEN GET A DIFFERENT JOB!! This poor little defenseless girl lost her life because her mother was a moron not suitable for parenthood. AND SHE GOT AWAY WITH IT. No jail time, nothing. She'd go on TV and blubber about how much she loved her kids and so on. Nice try for sympathy, but it was all bull.

Sorry for the rant, but that woman made me sick.

:mad: OMG how terrible!!!! wow that woman needs a brain or something... and she didn't get punished or anything?!?!?!? I don't blame you, dawsongirl, this woman's making me sick too.

[Swimfan85]

wow that is really sad!!!:( i dont understand how parents and people can be so cruel to kids...most of the time they are too young to understand that they are doing something wrong and locking them in cars does not teach them what the right thing to do. I mean of course depending on what that they did they should be punished, but a punishment that helps them understand what they did is wrong and locking children in places does not teach them a lesson at all. Parents are supposed to be role models and when these children grow up they may take some of the bad lessons and bad parenting skills from their parents and use them on their children! yah well that is sick and child abuse and i know when i did something bad my parents would get a sitter or not take me out to dinner until i could behave in a proper manner

[AllIWantIsYourClutch]

That's like....beyond sad.

You know what else is sad??? Putting little kids on leashes! COME ON! Sorry... OT OT OT

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by glitterbabie
dawsongirl ~ I never heard of that! When did it happen? That's so awful! You can't "just forget" where you put your child! That stupid lady... errrr, sickening. And that poor little gurl! That's a shame.

Last June or July. And like NancyMcKeon1987 said, summers in Iowa are HOT! That poor little girl had NO CHANCE. I think she was in the car for several hours while the woman was at work.

[disturbed child]

That is so horrible about that lady in Iowa! She deserves to rot in jail. But she got a clean break, didn't she?

Child abuse makes me sick! I mean, how could someone possibly hurt an innocent little child? When my brother, sister and I were little, there was this really mean woman who babysat us and we went to her house for hours each day while our mother was at work. Well, this lady used to beat the $hit out of us and lock us in rooms if we "misbehaved". This went on for quite sometime, and my siblings and I never told our mother cuz we were just too afraid. Somehow, though, our mother ended up finding out and she switched babysitters. Our new babysitter was this sweet lady who didn't hit us or treat us badly. I was only about 3 or 4 when this all happened so I don't remember much from that time. All I can remember is being at the mean babysitter's house and crying my eyes out. My sister remembers a lot of it, though, and she said it was awful.

What gives people the right to think that they can actually hit another person's child? That's just wrong. I think that a lot of people overlook the fact that it isn't just parents who abuse their children. There are also other people involved in a lot of child abuse cases. One of my close friends has spinobifida [sp?] and she has been handicapped her entire life. Well, when she was little, she went to this physical therapist who used to hit her. She never told her mother, though, because she was too scared. Her mother began noticing that something wasn't right when my friend stopped wanting to go to therapy. Luckily, her mother found out. Thank God for that. It's a sad, sad thing. I could NEVER EVER strike a child or let it go hungry. That's sick. People disgust me.

Another thing that sickens me is that so many child abusers get off scott free. They don't even get a slap on the wrist! It's a shame because the victims are left to suffer. The justice system is seriously messed up.

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by glitterbabie
That is so horrible about that lady in Iowa! She deserves to rot in jail. But she got a clean break, didn't she?

Oh yeah. No jail time whatsoever. And she has another kid. I'd worry if I was him.


The justice system is seriously messed up.

Amen to that and everything else you said!

[Chocoholic]

I think what those parents did is sick! I do think that children need to be discplined for bad behavior, but depriving them of food is child abuse and locking them in a car is neglect. Those parents belong in jail!

I remember one time at the grocery store I work at, this couple came in with their 2 young children. They couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 years old. They were fooling around like little kids do, and the mother was going ballistic! She was screaming at them and calling them names and everything. I wanted to say something to her, but I stayed silent. I think anyone who abuses a child is sick. Kids need discipline, not torture.

[DetectiveGriffin]

Another case of parents being self-indulgant. Kids misbehave - their brains are not developed; they can't quite help it.
People got to be the most vicious creatures on earth; i cant even go to the grocery without seeing worse than that. Laziness, selfish anger, lack of education. It's no wonder the world is as messed up as it is. :(

[Kitt]

Originally posted by DetectiveGriffin
Another case of parents being self-indulgant. Kids misbehave - their brains are not developed; they can't quite help it. Laziness, selfish anger, lack of education. It's no wonder the world is as messed up as it is. :( That's true, cruelty perpetuates cruelty.

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by kittflynn
When parents go out to dinner with their young children, and the children act up then the parents should be prepared to leave the restaraunt with the children. Life with young children takes on different responsibilties. Expect to face them everyday. Don't expect children to know how to act the way you think they should at all times. Be sure that the kids understand that the fun dinner you were all about to have has been lost due to their behavior. Maybe next time they'll remember that and behave better. To TORTURE the young children by leaving them cold, scared and alone is dangerous, and a gross neglect of parental duties.
I totally agree. Being a parent myself I have had to deal with situations in which now and then my child would throw a tantrum in a public place. It is very embarrassing and troubling . Take the children home and discipline them there. Leaving children alone in a car is very dangerous now days.
It would also be wise to teach your children how to behave in public. I know that might be impossible in some cases(I have a nephew who is a hellion!) If a child is that uncontrollable, better to stay home and eat and teach him manners there. But the important thing is to TEACH them! Ok, I'm done!:talk: ;)