It can happen to anyone. Guilty mama moment yesterday - Page 3

[StephandOwen]

Originally Posted by *Karen*

Hey Steph!

I've done the same thing, except wayyyyy worse. We were leaving on a 9 hour trip and we got his DVD player all set up and everything in the car and my mom put him in. We leave and I look back at him no kidding, 20 minutes later and he is not buckled in. AH! It was crazy scary.

And you should totally get certified. I did a few months ago!

Hey! Where you at the fair today? I thought I saw you but we were on our way out and ds was not interested in backtracking (he had to pee... lol).

Where did you go to get certified, if you don't mind me asking?


As a funny update to this story... a couple days after it happened, dp picked ds up from daycare (where I work). DP texted me a couple minutes later saying that as they pulled out of the daycare ds told him "Thank you for remembering to buckle me up". LOL! Thanks for rubbing it in, kiddo

[*Karen*]

Originally Posted by StephandOwen

Hey! Where you at the fair today? I thought I saw you but we were on our way out and ds was not interested in backtracking (he had to pee... lol).

Where did you go to get certified, if you don't mind me asking?


As a funny update to this story... a couple days after it happened, dp picked ds up from daycare (where I work). DP texted me a couple minutes later saying that as they pulled out of the daycare ds told him "Thank you for remembering to buckle me up". LOL! Thanks for rubbing it in, kiddo

Yep, we were at the fair. Dylan had a BLAST. He rode every single ride he was big enough to ride. We didn't leave until almost midnight.
Go to the SafeKids website, then you look for a local class. They are Monday - Friday all day. There was one in Georgetown a few weeks ago, and mine was downtown a few months ago. They are pretty random.

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

i forgot to buckle ds once before too, luckily we only when across the street to another strip mall and not really far.

[SaraMum]

I have also forgotten o do up the harness in the infant sea. We're all human

[Belia]

I call these my "Mother of the Year" moments. I'll call my husband at work and say, "Hey! Guess what the Mother of the Year did today?" And then I'll fill him in on our driving-around-unbuckled, rolling-off-the-bed, eating-mysterious-substances-off-the-ground, sitting-in-poopy-diapers adventures. Parenting is never boring!

[StephandOwen]

Originally Posted by *Karen*

Yep, we were at the fair. Dylan had a BLAST. He rode every single ride he was big enough to ride. We didn't leave until almost midnight.
Go to the SafeKids website, then you look for a local class. They are Monday - Friday all day. There was one in Georgetown a few weeks ago, and mine was downtown a few months ago. They are pretty random.

Dang! I can't believe I missed that. I have that site bookmarked and check it randomly but I've not seen one close (Louisville area has them frequently though). Then again, I haven't checked it lately either. Oh well. I'll probably have to wait until next summer and hope for a close one. Owen starts school (kindergarten ) in a couple weeks. The week after that I start at BCTC. So I'll be working Mon/Wed/Fri mornings (8-2) and Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri afternoons (3-6). Classes will be Tues/Thurs mornings (8-2) and Mon/Wed nights (6:30-7:45). Busy busy

[NatureMommy]

I did that when my kids were 3 years and 3 months old. After a hectic shopping trip, I had my 3 year old climb into his seat and handed him his treat while I got the baby strapped into his seat. Being tired, frazzled and just plain thankful no one was screaming (including mommy), I climbed in and started the car. As I was backing out of the parking space, my preschooler screamed, "Mommy are you trying to kill me?" and burst into tears. I had forgotten to buckle him in. It was easily remedied by pulling forward into the parking space and buckling him in. To make sure it would not happen again, he proceeded to demand to be buckled in for the next 1.5 years, until he figured out how to do it himself.

We also experienced the unsecured carseat scenario. When ds#1 was two years old, we had two cars and one car seat. It had to be switched back and forth as needed. One day while getting on the freeway, I heard great peals of laughter. I glanced in the baby mirror and to my horror saw ds's carseat on its side with ds laughing and clapping. Luckily the onramp was also the offramp and I was off the freeway and in a parking lot in less then a minute. He thought it was great fun, but that night we appealed to the Bank of Grandma, and had a new carseat for the second car the next day.

[smallmama]

I did the same thing for the first time last week!! On one hand, I guess I'm lucky I made it to age 3 without doing it, but on the other hand, it still gives me shivers thinking about it. We were at Costco, just about 5 miles away, and while he was climbing onto his carseat, I knocked my soda cup over on the seat next to him and got distracted cleaning it up. I also really had to pee and that had my focus. LOL. He didn't say anything, and I didn't notice until I went to get him out. I'm going to start asking him. Thanks for that idea.

[Love_My_Bubba]

I had a really scary moment recently. We were travelling to NJ on the 4th with our neighbors in 2 separate cars. Their DD was with us in her booster . We stopped at a rest stop and she needed a potty so they got her out and took her to the bathroom.

We traveled for almost another hour down the NJ turnpike in 4th of July traffic and were almost sideswiped by someone trying to pass on the right. When we got to NJ I pulled the seatbelt aside to get into the back seat of my van and DS's carseat came right along with it. When they got their DD out the had unbuckled the seatbet securing my DS's Regent and I had almost been in an accident with his car seat secured only by the top tether.

My knees went weak when I realized what could have happened.

[*Karen*]

Originally Posted by StephandOwen

Dang! I can't believe I missed that. I have that site bookmarked and check it randomly but I've not seen one close (Louisville area has them frequently though). Then again, I haven't checked it lately either. Oh well. I'll probably have to wait until next summer and hope for a close one. Owen starts school (kindergarten ) in a couple weeks. The week after that I start at BCTC. So I'll be working Mon/Wed/Fri mornings (8-2) and Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri afternoons (3-6). Classes will be Tues/Thurs mornings (8-2) and Mon/Wed nights (6:30-7:45). Busy busy

Whew, you are busy. Yeah, I totally lucked into mine. I looked at it started in less than two weeks so I signed up. If I ever hear of one coming, I'll let you know!