My PSA Re: 2-Year-Old in the Car

Over the Easter holiday we got my back bumper replaced from the unfortunate incident with the shopping cart return rack at Lowe’s. So I had a nice sparkling new-looking car again.

Well, that was short-lived. I suppose I do have to take some responsible for it, but I’d rather blame the Little One. We stopped at the store the other day after dropping the Big One off at preschool. As I often do, I unbuckled the Little One and proceeded to unload the groceries. Usually the Little One climbs up into the Big One’s seat and tries to buckle herself. It’s fun and relatively safe to let her play while I unload things.

Well on this particular occasion, I walked out of the garage and into the front yard to retrieve the newspaper. As I turned around from picking up the paper and headed back to the car, I heard a familiar noise.

The garage door was closing. I ran as fast as I could to stop the door from closing. No I wasn’t worried a bout being locked out with her inside, rather I was worried about my car.

Remember I was unloading groceries when I made the newspaper detour. So the back hatch of the mom-mobile was open when the Little One managed to climb over the seats and center console, climbed up on top of the passenger seat, stood up on the passenger seat and poked the garage door remote to close the door.

So now my beautiful sparkling new bumper still looks great, however there are two lovely scratches on the back hatch where the garage door tried desperately to close.

So my PSA to you, don’t leave your mischievous 2-year-old in the car alone for even a second. {Now, don’t get lecturing me about leaving kids alone in the car. All the car doors were open and I literally walked 50-yards to the front yard to pick-up the newspaper.}