Comments on: friday minutiae

By: purechristianithink

purechristianithink — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:16:57 +0000

At the end of soccer practice this past fall I noticed that the at home moms seemed to clump together talking about PTA and classroom volunteer stuff while the working moms clustered together comparing that day’s horrific commute stories.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:05:21 +0000

I’m still traumautized by having to watch Red Linoleum in Home Ec.

By: ppb

ppb — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:16:31 +0000

And while shopping cart and auto may both be dangerous, I question Home Depot’s genuine concern. Not that there’s anything wrong with Home Depot, but let’s face it, it’s not the type of company that sits around contemplating babies a lot.

By: ppb

ppb — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:44:04 +0000

I’m just wondering if C actually gets to WEAR a teeny little labcoat for her class? Because that would totally be the best.

By: reverendmother

reverendmother — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:11:21 +0000

You’re both right about all of that. I was just questioning the idea that shopping cart and automobile are equivalent dangers.

By: sherry

sherry — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:35:29 +0000

Lorraine,
The joke is that I am a pediatrician. And I had a child who could climb out of the front of the cart and not out of the back. For us, it was safer to put him in the back. You are right about the other stuff.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:05:41 +0000

Well — not leaping to the defense of Walmart (you know, the Evil Empire and all that) — but, if you look at the statistics from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission you’ll see a shocking number of accidents related to children in shopping carts. I believe it’s something like more than 12,000 per year with many many of those being serious head injuries. A shopping cart does not have the correct center of gravity to stay upright if a child stands in it in the wrong place (i.e., at the end especially), and particularly if they move around, reach for something or fling themselves to the end of it suddenly (like for example “Mommy! Sugar-Coated Sugary Sugar Cereal, I want some!!!!!!”) Also, the floors of a store are always hard, and there are often things that a child could hit on the way down.

Whether or not Walmart is truly concerned about your child is something I don’t know. But they do know the statistics and of course they’re trying to avoid lawsuits.

End of my little lecture, stepping off soapbox now.

By: sherry

sherry — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:44:08 +0000

If it makes you feel any better a Walmart employee fussed at me one day about not having my kid buckled into the shopping cart…..worse than that…allowing him to stand in the basket. I told him I would talk to me pediatrician about it.

By: esperanza

esperanza — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:52:29 +0000

We get popsicle fists here too–only in the living room instead of outside. Also a result of Refusal To Be Covered. This will make it to the therapy sessions?!? Oh, dear. Glad you and SBJ made it outside for a while, anyway.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:50:07 +0000

I meant when you HEAR it wrong.

Let’s see how many times we can re-caveat a series of caveats.