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shindy
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wow, I still have trouble leaving my baby alone in the house (she is 17). How can someone who has half a brain leave a baby home alone to go say slichos??? I once read that there was a shul in europe that was waiting for the rov to come say kol nidrea, and he wasn’t coming and they went out to look for him..ends up they found him in someone’s house cradling a baby in his arms. The Rov said I was on my way to shul and I heard a baby crying and wailing. The whole family had gone to shul and left the baby by himself, so I couldn’t just leave him….

I think it is time for all of us, when we see parents being neglectful, to tell them in a nice but firm way that this is not safe! Weren’t enough yiddishe neshamos killed in all the wars and the Holocaust, we have to add to it with such vagrant neglect? One time I was at someone’s house shabbat morning and i noticed that my friend’s blech was sticking out, and very easy for a small child to pull it down, but i kept my mouth shut (for a change) i did not want to boss her around. Sure enough, TWO hours later, her two year old shlepped down the hot blech from the stove and then the baby crawled on it and hatzolah came right away to take them to the burn center. I always regreted not saying anything, boruch Hashem the kids are fine. We must verbally tell people and not be afraid.