Think again. Take the time to read and digest this below. It could very well save the life of your child.

I am a father who nearly lost a child due to this "fatal distraction". I was on-call, and I got 20 phone calls from patients in 60 minutes, which is unheard of as an outpatient physician. I was directly admitting a patient to the hospital and, through all of this, I forgot I had my 2 year-old with me. When my wife frantically called me saying the police had our boy, I honestly thought my boy had left the house somehow by himself. I totally forgot and was on autopilot.

These things can happen to you. I promise you, they can. It happens to normal people.

Any time you do something out of the ordinary, you are setting yourself up for disaster. Driving a kid in the back seat is, in my opinion, out of the ordinary and too risky.

I do something simple. When I have a child in my car, I take my left shoe off and put it in the back seat. That's all it takes to save a life. Just do it!

Read this pulizter prize winning article. It will change you.

https://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

Protect your children!