Maybe the dingo ate your baby. (Spoiler) - Days of Our Lives

Who leaves a baby outside a store while they shop!

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Sloan is such a stupid idiot. She isn’t fit to raise a rock!

Why is she going into Sweet Bits anyway? She hates Chanel. I’m so ready for this storyline to be over!

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Only an idiot would leave a baby alone. They always dumb down Salamites.

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Even Sami, who was a terrible mother to Will when he was young, never left him alone unattended. Don’t think that even Kristen would do something like that. So, that officially makes Sloan the worst mother in Salem.

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I sure never left my daughter unattended when she was a little one. But, my youngest grandson is a biotech researcher who travels to Denmark a lot, sometimes for weeks at a time and he tells me people leave infants in their baby buggies outside a store all the time. And when people go into an all night convenience store to make a late night purchase, it operates on the honor system. You pay for your purchase but there’s no cashier there. (Obviously the door isn’t locked either.)

What Sloan did is bizarre for the US and many countries, but it isn’t completely unknown. I think Sweden is known for the same kind of outlook and behavior that my grandson has noted in Denmark.

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It’s in the news all the time IRL. People even leave their babies in the cars all day, and they die. Far worse then leaving them in a stroller for 2 minutes.

Just HOW you can forget your baby in the car and let them cook all day, is completely beyond me!

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Clearly, there are many levels to an honor system in Denmark. That notwithstanding, I could never leave my baby unattended there and especially not here in the U.S., where honor is sorely lacking.

Although this is off topic, I’m very concerned when I see little ones following their gadget obsessed mothers, seemingly on their own walking in parking lots. I would always have my child’s hand in case some fool went barreling through the lot.
Overprotective? Nah. Just being a mother who is glad that my children hadn’t come to any harm when young and dependent on an adult’s care.

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Agree. Don’t know what I would do in a place like Denmark,but my gut instinct would be to have my little one with me. Why not? Children are fun, and they count on us to care for them. My grandson says the moms go into a coffee shop and have their coffee while the little ones are outside the building. Mom and/or dad can see them through the window but that wouldn’t cut it for me.

It sounds strange to me, and when I think of the prevalence of human trafficking, it seems reckless, too. However, they simply don’t have the same crime stats we do, nor do they have the same attitudes. He says it’s a very common sight. The grandson who has a 5 year old daughter doesn’t let her out of his sight and in public, no more than an arm’s length away. (Note: He does live in Los Angeles.)

We all remember the little 3 year old British girl (Maddie) who was abducted in Portugal while her parents and a couple of other couples dined on a patio some distance from the room. She was never seen again. One of the parents, I think the mom, was a pediatrician.

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Even though I have no children, I do have 2 nieces. I remember getting off work early one day because of a snow storm. Made it home & turned on Oprah (this was prior to 1994); the show was about child abductions, prevention, etc. So, next time I visited the family in Chicago, I told my sister about the Oprah, scared her & my Mom. But after that, every time we went somewhere & my sister wanted to shop, either my Mom or I held onto my niece’s hand. She was allowed to go anywhere as long as someone held her hand.

The interesting thing about that show was they showed how easy it was to abduct a child. They set up scenarios using children (they were perfectly safe). Beforehand the parents were asked if they thought their child would get into a stranger’s vehicle. Every parent was sure their child wouldn’t. Only one mother was right. Oprah asked her what she did differently. She told Oprah that she reminded her son every single day not to get into a stranger’s car for any reason. I believe she even had a safe word so the child could ask the stranger in case they used the “parents told me to come get you” excuse. She also explained that no adult would ask a child to help find a missing cat or puppy. It’s probably worse nowadays because of the internet but it’s still good common sense.

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I remember that show. Those parents were so shocked that their children got into that ice cream truck. It was an ice cream truck, right? And like you mentioned, only one kid didn’t fall for trap.

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All my book reading before my son was born I know the biggy was not leaving the child in an un-attended car or un-attended period.

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