get out of your car and attend to your kid

Definite nominee for 'Parent Of The Year' award there... N-O-T-!!! Some folks just aren't cut out to be parents. Sorry to say that but with what we have seen, this seems like a universal truth.

Sadly, that's not unusual these days. Even when moms are sitting there not far from their kids they aren't watching or engaged with them but totally absorbed in their cell phones. Talking, texting, watching movies or playing games are all more important than their kids. I'll never forget watching a little 2-3 year old with a flower in her hand trying to get her mom's attention while the mom talked on her damned cell phone! She missed a moment of wonder with her little girl and the child learned that she is not more important than her mom's cell phone. Of all the devices modern man has devised, the cell phone is one of the most beneficial and the most destructive, its effects spanning years--its misuse alienates children from parents and the hurt and damage will last a lifetime.

yeh you have to wonder sometimes about what are in people's heads sometime

They blame all the stuff that happens on the kids now days....I say alot has to do with the parents and lack of really caring....this is a prime example. Too lazy to even play with her kids...not only that but when the child was hurt? If I had been a mom whose kid was hurt I would have had a panic attack and would have had to be with them!

Irresponsible parent. What if the children were abducted, what would she do? Blame the police? There a lot of abduction happening nowadays, and now I know, some of it were parents fault.

a park is a public place where we should never really be too at ease, as a lot of unexpected things could happen anytime. we can never really blame our kids if we think that they can already manage all by themselves. it's always a matter of how well on-guard we are when it comes to safefy. -- not really to the point of making them dependent on you; but they we could give them more of the guidance that they need when we tell them what to do while we watch them give recourse to their pain. adults should see to it that the young are learning the proper way to heal their own pain; that just assume that they already know what to do.

I am surprised she was even there. I have seen kids as young as 3 or 4 dumped off at a park with a lake and other scary things.

Apparently she Can't. Thank goodness nobody got seriously hurt.

I've done that.. but when I hear crying I check to make sure it isn't major.

I think there was something wrong with that parent! When we take the kids to the park we are out there playing with them. I am a huge kid at heart so I have a blast at the park still! Lol. I would never leave my kids anywhere and not watch them! Some parents should not be parents!!