Brooklyn, NY – During the cold weeks, many children are at the corner of the street waiting for someone to cross them, please take a moment and do it even if you have to stop and get out of your car, its a great mitzvah the child is freezing.
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Many parents are walking with their children at great pace, the parents are walking and the children are running to catch up, slow down Yakov U’venie did it with animals-you can do it for you children.
Snow on the roof of your car, when you remove the snow from your car so you can drive, also remove the snow from the roof, so when you drive on the street or the highway it shouldn’t come down on the car behind you because you blind the driver and also sometimes its ice can crack the windshield of the car behind you.
Snow removal infront of your house, we know its the law, but too many people are getting hurt, Hatzolah is running nonstop to these types of calls, elderly people can’t balance themselves on ice-put rock salt when it snows and continue even when it stops snowing for 1-2 days.
To all mothers who push out the carriage with a baby in between 2 parked cars or in the middle of the block when a truck or a bus can’t see the carriage, is putting the little baby in harms way.
If you don’t want to walk all the way to the corner, the next best thing you can do, is come infront of the carriage, look if its clear, pull the carriage till you get the handle and continue.
Why is it, that the mother goes into a store especially in this weather, (any weather) leaves the baby outside, but takes in the pocketbook (purse), isn’t your child worth as much as what you have in your purse?
Think for a moment.
Yashir koach. It’s the not-so-little things that we don’t give much thought that really count. When our precious little neshomeles are involved, we all have to be extra careful. (Same with our not-so-little neshomas.)
When u cross a kid please do it with hart & brain. Hold d kid till d other side. Takes only 10 seconds more.
well written: it’s the small things that make a BIG difference.
a) say hello to the sanitation worker shleping you garbage
b)hold the DOOR for everybody.
c) say HELLO to ALL your neighbors.
I think the same goes to an eldery person who has difficulties crossing with this ice and snow in the road. Hold on to them till they are crossed safely the avenue or street.
Also i think we need a volunteer program where anyone who can pick up a eldery person from home to take them to beis hamedresh every morning and take them back home…
Please be very careful when crossing kids, don’t just look and send them off on their own, try to walk along with them across the street.
u should mention 4 the mothers NOT to push the stroller out into the street & only then to ck if a car is coming.
Help a kid cross the street, even if you have to get out of your car? Leave the car in the middle of the road?
What? Cross a child? In today’s day and age I’d be arrested and charged with child molesting for “C’V” touching someone else’s child. And, better yet, you should teach your children to run away from strangers – not go across the street with them. Unfortunately, you never know what kind of nut you’re starting up with these days.
What type of parent lets their kid depend on strangers to cross them?
“please take a moment and do it even if you have to stop and get out of your car, its a great mitzvah the child is freezing. ” Yes I will tell my child to wait for a stranger to pull up in a car and take them by the hand. If after taking my child by the hand they happen to take my child into their car instead of crossing the street I will be content in knowing they listened to my advice telling them to have a stranger grab them.
One must educate their kids in who to trust, and where are the parents allowing their kids to cross that they are so young they need help from strangers? Unless there is extenuating circumstance there is no reason for this.
Is it considered ‘misera’ when you report a neighbor who consistantly doesn’t shovel the snow from in front of his house, even after being warned many times.b
my question is, if a child is too young to cross on his own, why are his parents letting him out on the street by himself????
And some kids are to shy to ask , . So look around before you cross. And if you see a kid By the corner. Don’t wait him or she to ask you please cross. You ask then if they want to cross .
I couldnt agree more with #13 ! Who would let their child wait at the corner for someone to cross them? Where are the parents? How can they rely on a total stranger to cross them. Dont we teach them not to talk to strangers? Whats going on? I dont understand? If they’re coming from the bus stop, didnt you make arrangements for someone to meet them there or walk them home??? I think we all know the type of world that we are raising our children, and there is no such thing as being “over-protective”!
when a child wait at a street cor. he will wait someone should cross him but if he will see that no one will cross him or he will wait to long he will run by self of the street so please if you see a child by a street cor. take your time and cross with him the block. chamira skanta maisira
Thanks ViN for bringing our a such an important point. I would like to add a small point, teach kids only to cross when its the WalK sign (red light) & NOT on don’t walk (green light) even when there are no cars on the road is empty If its don’t walk (green light)Don’t cross its very dangers, some times I see people cross kids on Green light they are in a rush its very dangers remember 1min more can save a life ishmortem miod L’nafshsochaim !
There is one more point I would like to bring out during all these snow days. When you ladies/men go shopping and leave your babies in the shopping cart in these 10 – 20 aisle stores, do you honestly expect your 6 or 7 month old to be there when you decide to come back in 10 minutes. I have seen this done by Chasidim in Shop Rite and Landau’s and it is a mazal that these children were not kidnapped!! Please DO NOT leave these jewels alone!!
I see from the comments that the only concern is “crossing the child” go to Hatzlucah Market, Central Market, Bedford and Rodney, Ross St. and Lee Ave., Williamsburg West and Lee Ave., Landau’s Grocery on Penn St. Marcy and Division Ave. and every street in Boro Park these are the facts of every day life in the Jewish community parents sending out children to run errands.
Not to take it lightly about the concern of “strangers and crazy people” that are among us, we are dealing with reality and should not let these children freeze its the parents who send these children out should also give them a little education.
Having said all off that, I’m amazed that none of the comments relate to the same concern of “strangers and crazy people” walking away with your precious little child while your wife is inside a store buying milk, developing a photo, getting medication etc; this is an adult (parent) making the decision just as the adult made the decision to send out the child.
we don’t live in a perfect world, we can’t correct everything, BUT we must act as human beings and show the innocent child that we care, many times parents advise the children “don’t cross by yourself” and when the child comes home, the first question is “ver hut dich G’crossed”
In final, its Rosh Chodesh Uder lets all have a Simches Uder, Health and Wealth and every child that’s sent out by parents to school, grocery or any where to come home safe, let Hashem watch on all of us.
… How sad that we need a reminder for pashut derech eretz and child rearing basics (let a child be crossed by strangers!?! Where are the parents?) And remember next time we pat ourselves proudly on the back because we built another marble hatzala hq that the rest of america basically acts considerate in these ways without special VIN reminders.
I do not enter stores if my child sitting in the carriage is not welcome. These stores don’t deserve my business!!!!
If I see a little child by himself I am calling the police on the mother, not walking the child.
When I was young, it was standard to allow children out if they weren’t going to get lost. The kids asked passing adults to cross them. Now things are unfortunately different. Yet there is definitely such a thing as “over-protective”. Kids need to learn responsibilty and self-reliance. They need to know you can trust them and that they are capable of going places themselves.
I compromise by sending my children by themselves to the grocery two blocks away. I cross them the first street and they ask a stranger for the second. I keep an eye on the clock, and go out to check on them if they’re not back quickly. It gives the kids a tremendous boost.
I am always so saddened and mad to see the sometimes arrogant and nonchalant attitude of our people while crossing the street. It doesn’t matter if the car has the light, they will saunter across anyway; not in a hurry either. Children rarely look, they just go. Mothers push the stroller and child into the street first before they come out to cross. Traffic is serious. A driver cannot always stop in time. People have to care about themselves and not leave everything up to the motorist. Parents must teach their children and adults must grow up and not act like a spoiled child in the street.