“Crystal’s Soapbox,” published each Thursday, is a column by conservative Texas mom Crystal Arcand who loves to rant about issues that relate to her kids….and yours.
You know, some people just shouldn’t go out in public – or have kids. Or maybe take their kids out in public? Whichever it is, the people in this picture definitely fit the parenting fail bill. It boggles the mind how someone could actually have the idea to put a child in a shopping cart and perch boxes atop it precariously, let alone actually do it. I mean, come on. Really??? Even my usually-oblivious nine-year-old son could see the wrong here. His words? “Well, it could fall on him and kill him!”
Okay, he was a little melodramatic there, but you get the point.
You think the picture above is frighteningly bad? You should see the whole thing at People of WalMart.com – there’s a shop vac stacked on top of the scooter box! (Don’t even get me started on the whole “you’re buying a motorized vehicle for your kid” thing – there’s not a soapbox high enough.) The amount of danger that baby is in just really astounds me. The source says it was taken on Black Friday at WalMart. As if WalMart shoppers aren’t crazy enough, can you imagine (or remember, if you went) the amount of pushing, shoving, and jostling that was going on? I seriously wonder if the child actually survived the shopping trip.
Man, I’d love to see Supernanny or Judge Judy go off on these parents.
Comments
Lis L
December 10th, 2009 - 10:44:32 AM
While I don't dispute that the child might be hurt, and that saftey should trump shopping ... I still think you should get the full back story before judging.
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Kelly Turner
December 10th, 2009 - 11:02:29 AM
Im not usually the kind of person that does this sort of thing, but I think this is enough to make me tap that parent on the shoulder and let them know that if someone bumps into that box, even if it is larger than the top of the cart, it can slide to the side and send the corner of it right down onto their child. Id rather have someone tell me to stuff it than not say anything and see it happen
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Crystal Arcand
December 14th, 2009 - 8:17:41 PM
Humble and unimportant as it may be, in my opinion there is not a "back story" in existence that could excuse that picture, Lis. There *is* no back story here, except that someone put a child in completely preventable and avoidable danger.
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