https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:23:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet/page/2#post-1799247 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:22:57 +0000 pinkcupcake 1799247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Car seat. She's 2.5 and it's always been a struggle with the carseat. If we made one exception, she would never want to sit in it again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet/page/2#post-1799227 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:17:17 +0000 birdofafeather 1799227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've both left her in the house and put her in the front seat when moving a car from our driveway. Definitely wouldn't leave her in the driveway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet/page/2#post-1799203 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:12:07 +0000 Sammyfab 1799203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: this. If I put my son in the front seat he would ask to be in the front seat every time. I would have put him in the car seat but half buckled.</p> <p>ETA: when my son was younger my husband drove from the street into the driveway with my son buckled in the front seat. I was also worried about the neighbours but at the same time, I thought it was kinda cute. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799178 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:00:28 +0000 illumina 1799178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably left her inside. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799168 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:55:41 +0000 edelweiss 1799168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>not sure. i would have done either what you did or leave him in the house. my main hesitation about putting him in the front seat while driving (i mean, not really "driving" but just moving) is that i *know* LO would go ballistic on every car ride thereafter because he would be relegated back to the car seat. i don't want to deal with that super tantrum. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799156 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:51:47 +0000 Trailmix 1799156@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would've done what you did. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799119 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:37:46 +0000 swurlygurl 1799119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: Oh yeah, definitely! I would have done what you did in a parking lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799114 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:36:09 +0000 Smurfette 1799114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: I would have put her in the front seat if we were at home. But in a parking lot I didn't trust it. Never know with other cars pulling in and out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799102 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:28:46 +0000 swurlygurl 1799102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Thenetexan: @looch: Yeah, I can see that being an issue as kids get older - L's probably close to the point where she might start to ask for it again. Luckily she didn't think twice of car seat the next time!</p> <p>@swedishfish: That's so sad! :( That's what I was worried about, something so bizarre could happen so quickly </p> <p>@Smurfette: If I tried to leave L in the house she definitely would have thought I was trying to leave her. We're already going through a tricky phase with those issues right now so I didn't want to make it worse :(</p> <p>@clover: Same, I wouldn't have done it if I was moving to the street.</p> <p>The whole time we were doing it, I was so worried that some nosy neighbor would call the cops on me though. I don't feel bad for doing it, but there are so many ways to get in trouble for small things. I know the rules are there for good reasons, but I always worry about a stranger seeing something and misinterpreting </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799100 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:28:32 +0000 sunny 1799100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have left LO inside. I am sure she would remember being in the moving car without being in her carseat and it would just cause problems later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799095 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:27:14 +0000 bunnylove08 1799095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would put her in the back seat and move the car. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799093 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:26:14 +0000 Adira 1799093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would've just left Xander inside (and I have on multiple times). He might cry while I'm outside for a few seconds, but as soon as I return, he's fine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799087 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:23:53 +0000 sorrycharlie 1799087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: poor thing! O wigged once because I had to walk around the car and past her door to move a shopping cart. she totally thought I was leaving her in the car. her face was all swollen..I felt AWFUL. :(</p> <p>living where we are, I have left her in the (gated off, baby proofed) living room because we live (and park) on a main road. so it would not have been safe whatsoever. but on a quiet side st, rolling the car a few feet in a driveway I am not sure what I would have done! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799085 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:23:04 +0000 ValentineMommy 1799085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have left him inside. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799084 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:23:02 +0000 Purpledaisy 1799084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If it wouldn't end in tears my first choice would be to just leave her inside. If that was not going to work then I would just put her in the front seat. I mean, it's 10 feet, gotta live on the wild side sometimes. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799083 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:22:42 +0000 lemondrop 1799083@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Crib, I'm not concerned about crying for a minute because that's just easier to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799074 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:19:27 +0000 Smurfette 1799074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Last week at day care, R dropped her sippy cup, it rolled smack in the middle of the car. Luckily a teacher was walking it. So I asked her to hold R's hand while I moved the car. R was crying so hard since she didn't know the teacher and thought I was just leaving her. But I didn't know what else to do. I didn't want to strap her in and move spots without her strapped in since it was a parking lot and other cars there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799069 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:16:49 +0000 looch 1799069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Thenetexan: yep. I don't think I am winning any awards for my parenting, but I've been down the road many a times when exceptions I have made have come back to bite me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799062 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:13:56 +0000 mediagirl 1799062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: Front seat! Though one time I did this and let her crawl around in the back and she LOVED it. :) She giggled the whole time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799061 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:12:18 +0000 Thenetexan 1799061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: I would and have done the same as you for the same reasons. I don't want LO to think there are exceptions to safety rules. I tend to overthink things though and am constantly thinking many steps ahead. Even still, I often get bit by unintended consequences. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799058 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:10:57 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1799058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is fine inside the house for a minute or so if I have to run out but if I needed to have her with me I would just have her in my lap. No big deal. We share 5 acres with 4 other members of DH'S family &amp; LO has sat in my lap on short drives across the yard before </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799053 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:08:23 +0000 Ginabean3 1799053@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have left him inside! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799052 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:07:59 +0000 hilsy85 1799052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have left him inside in a safe space. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799051 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:07:54 +0000 yellowbird 1799051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would put her in her highchair in the house and moved the car as fast as possible </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799050 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:07:36 +0000 cyndistar3 1799050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We move cars around a lot here, lo usually sits in the front with us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799043 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:05:54 +0000 cheert16 1799043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would've left him inside! But if I needed to take him outside- I would've put him the the carseat- not strapped in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799037 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:03:21 +0000 mrsjyw 1799037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 20 months, so I would've left him inside (He'd just be peeking out the garage door) or I would've strapped him in the front seat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799033 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:02:32 +0000 Anagram 1799033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have done what you did! We park in a garage, and sometimes the car next to us is parked too close to open the back passenger door to get LO in her car seat. Taking an elevator back up to put her in our condo alone isn't an option, and leaving a mobile baby to crawl/walk around a parking garage where other cars are driving is not an option--so I put her in my lap, pull the car out and to the side, then take her over to her seat and buckle her in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799023 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:59:38 +0000 swedishfish 1799023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would've done the same for a 10 foot move. I know a LO who was outside while his parent moved a vehicle and it wasn't good. Luckily he's ok now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/wwyd-moving-the-car-10-feet#post-1799021 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:58:47 +0000 Alivoo01 1799021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd either put the baby in my lap or give to DH to hold for a sec while I backed up. </p>