Over the weekend Corey and I attended a local rodeo with the Lambs- Shawn, Sheri, and their two children. While Sheri and I were sitting in the stands watching cowgirls attempt to rope calves, there was a sudden clash of noise behind us. The bleachers were your run of the mill sporting event stands, cold aluminum with large openings where you can see from the seat to the ground. So when we turned toward the source of the noise we saw an over turned baby car seat with infant strewn across the lower planks, suspended by forehead and armpit.
Everyone around us gasped as I am sure you are and jumped to their feet as if they could catch the child. Her mother scrambled to save her, utterly embarrassed.
Sheri and I just rolled our eyes.
Earlier we had noticed something no one else saw. The "mother" was actually a teenage girl in the midst of a school project- she was to care for a high-tech, life-like baby doll. Sitting with her friends at the top of the bleachers, the girl sat the car seat carelessly next to her without strapping the doll in. As the evening went on, she gave it less and less attention and BUMP it fell.
After informing everyone that it wasn't real and rocking the fake child till it stopped crying, the teen returned the baby to the seat and again sat it next to her on the bench.
I get that it is just a doll, but did she not learn the first time? This is why teens should not have children.
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