Please leave your work bag, purse, wallet, cell phone and maybe even your left shoe in the backseat with your kids this summer. Throw in a stuffed animal in the passenger seat as an additional visual cue. Too many tragic deaths every summer.

These stories in the news are breaking my heart.No one thinks that it will ever happen to them, but 52 kids died horrific deaths last year, and we are up to 20 something this year.Please set aside some time to read this lengthy 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning article focusing on the parents of children who died horrifically and tragically in hot cars.It's a very long article, but very much worth the read. I read it in 2008, and have never forgotten it.Stay safe <3https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html?utm_term=.634420e05de0 via /r/Parenting https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/cjtbhr/please_leave_your_work_bag_purse_wallet_cell/?utm_source=ifttt