amcor
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08-07-11 08:39 PM - Post#136119
Look....if you are some kind of health "nut" and insist on exercising (walking/running) in the late afternoon, who am I to stop an adult? However, PLEASE do NOT subject your toddlers to this inhumane torture!
I could not believe my eyes when I saw a young mother outfitted in her workout gear walking in the park with her toddler in a stroller at 5 pm!!!
Temp reading was 101 degrees.
Please research how a young child's body is often unable to regulate temperature as effectively as an adult in extreme heat. Recently, we have had incidents of adults succumbing to death in this extreme heat due to heat exhaustion/stroke. Just imagine what could happen to that tiny, precious body!
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civicminded
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08-07-11 09:22 PM - Post#136122
In response to amcor
Add this to your platform. After a high rise emergency and other calls today, we made time to experiment with our thermal imager. We checked out the approach (driveway thingy) and an outside wall. Even after dinner we still had in the 130's on the drive, and 147 on an outside wall. Nope, our skylights aren't melting...yet.
So wee ones that are close to the pavement (a heat sink) are a concern.
Edited by civicminded on 08-07-11 09:22 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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amcor
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08-07-11 09:28 PM - Post#136124
In response to civicminded
ugh...good point!  Just don't know what some people are thinking!
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Joe Schirmer
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08-07-11 09:40 PM - Post#136126
In response to amcor
Makes you wonder how people survived before air conditioning. Must have been dead bodies strewn everywhere.
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amcor
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08-07-11 10:05 PM - Post#136128
In response to Joe Schirmer
Fact is that the elderly and very young are more vulnerable to heat related illness and death. Whether or not you chose to acknowledge that is up to you. Just because people were able to survive without a/c does not mean that it somehow seems logical to take a toddler out for an afternoon run in temps over 100 degrees!
Since I am old enough to actually remember people w/o AC as a child....people did NOT wait to do physical activity late in the afternoon. All physical chores were done first thing in the morning and you stayed pretty still and in the shade during the hottest part of the day....kinda like animals in the wild do. Seems like common sense to me, but what do I know?
I am sorry, but I don't find putting a young child's health at serious risk the appropriate place for sarcasm or joking...
It's kinda like saying that it's OK to ride with your child out of a seatbelt....after all, millions of us survived without them, right??
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Joe Schirmer
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08-08-11 08:22 AM - Post#136137
In response to amcor
I'm sorry, but I find it slightly amusing/sad that you are worried about some child in a stroller in a park.
I was one of those people without AC as a child. From grades 1-12 we had no air conditioning (except in the band hall, and a few other "special" classrooms). My house, while it did have an air conditioning, we never used it because of the expense.
And none of us ever died of heat exhaustion.
We were acclimated to the heat and knew how to survive in it. You might be amazed that a little shade and breeze is all you need to make 100+ degrees quite comfortable.
So long as the child wasn't in the sun, then the breeze from the mom pushing the stroller would be all it takes at 5pm to make it quite safe and comfortable for the child. In addition the child is getting acclimated to the heat and would be better able to tolerate the heat than some child who is kept in air conditioning all day.
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sco
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08-09-11 04:12 PM - Post#136262
In response to Joe Schirmer
I'm all for being careful about the heat and the OP makes a good point that young children are particularly susceptible to the heat. Joe also has a point that a child in a stroller is likely in the shade with a breeze in their face and is not exercising. I doubt the child was in any danger unless they were out for a really long time. Let's just leave it at let's all be careful out there.
Edited by sco on 08-09-11 04:14 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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Joe Schirmer
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08-09-11 04:30 PM - Post#136263
In response to sco
Unless the child was out in the sun there was absolutely no danger sitting in a stroller. I never heard of a child being harmed by the heat unless they were left exposed to the sun or were locked in a car. How in the world do you think mankind survived if we needed air conditioning every time the temperature went above 100 degrees F?
Growing up with no air conditioning, it was often more comfortable outside under the shade trees with the breeze when it got hot than it was inside the house.
Sheesh! Just because you may not have acclimated to the hear doesn't mean everybody else hasn't either.
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sco
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08-09-11 05:44 PM - Post#136272
In response to Joe Schirmer
Joe,
 I was mostly agreeing with you. We need to be mindful of the heat but we don't need to lock our children in an air conditioned bubble. Can we just leave it at that?
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Joe Schirmer
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08-09-11 06:35 PM - Post#136273
In response to sco
I guise I don't understand what you "mostly" agree with and, by implication, what you slightly disagree with. But if you don't want to discuss it then we'll leave it at that.
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mgrayar
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08-09-11 07:33 PM - Post#136276
In response to Joe Schirmer
That women has no idea she is being blasted on here for trying to be healthy and work out. We walk with my daughter in her stroller to the pool often in this heat. I guess my neighbors see that and think we are bad parents. When we get there, I'm sweaty from the walk, but my daughter is dry and rearing to go! It's amazing what a little shade and motion can do.
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Don4
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08-09-11 07:36 PM - Post#136277
In response to amcor
This time of year reminds me of this tune... Mad Dogs and Englishmen (rated G)
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mgrayar
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08-09-11 09:23 PM - Post#136284
In response to Don4
So she was English, that settles it!
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