You know that was a great threat my parents did to my sister and I when we were younger but they never carried it out.  I am shocked this lady did that but I know most if not all parents have threatened their children with stopping the car and them getting out but following through is another story in itself.  You really can’t just drop your kids off on the side of any road busy or not. 

So how does she figure a plea of "not guilty" will fly?

I bet next she’ll try for mental issue problems to get out of jail.

This poor woman looks stressed out! … I do not condone her actions … However, I do understand them!… I hope she gets off scott free! …

Every parent knows sometimes children can behave like monsters! … I think it was hilarious! … I know the little monsters were in shock! … Ha Ha Ha!

I have a 10 yo daughter and I can’t imagine driving away with her crying - sometimes she cries when I leave for work (a Mommy’s girl) and she is going to school, and that breaks my heart enough (I cry the whole way to work) but to do it because I’m mad?  I’m not sure I could that!

I don’t even threaten it, I just say (yell, let’s be honest), we’re turning around and going home if you can’t get along - all kids do bicker and fight, we all did it and our parents yelled at us to stop

in a way, we have frowned on disciplining our children so much that there is a lot of pent up frsutration out there in parents - I have friends who think I am awful if I ever get mad and yell at my kids, huh?  they do something wrong and I say "oh it’s okay, don’t come home late again, okay"?  I have friends who think giving chores to my kids or making them get a job when they are old enough is over the top - wth? 

so if we coddle them but we remain frustrated (human reaction to parenting stress), then add to the mix financial stresses, well, we will see many more parents losing it like this -so sad because it’s the polar opposite of what most of us want for our kids and family life

she should be punished under the law (not sure if she should lose her kids, though - she likely needs help - her kids will suffer if they are taken from her, as long as she gets that help - but they will also have a new dynamic knowing Mommy got arrested for getting mad at us - whoa, that will backfire when those girls are teenagers, yipes - again, the polar opposite of what we are trying to do with our "gentle parenting")

…but it’s a good moment to stop and see how we are raising our kids today and how we control our anger, or how we need to let it out somehow and sometimes, to let kids know they are misbehaving and to stop it, just without emotionally or physically harming our kids - there has to be a better way, a happy medium between spanking (do NOT do)/constant yelling and "oh no problem, it’s okay, let’s get an ice cream"…

We have all been fed up with our children but to leave the child there and call the police when she got home and pretend that the child was missing and not discarded?  They are kids - and yes they get on nerves but her children didn’t deserve to be thrown out like that.  I hope this mother is found to be mentally unstable and not that uncaring……..I hope she gets the help she needs - before she is allowed to see her children again.  Let’s also think about what might have happened if a pedophile walked by instead of a kind stranger who brought the child to the police station.  And last - where is the husband on all of this?

She had childern why?

This sparks a memory. When I was five years old (I remember how old I was because of what house we lived in), I told my mother I hated her because she wouldn’t let me use the bathroom when I had to go. She was getting ready for a party and we only had one bathroom. I’m sure she let me go a minute or two later, but I was a child with no sense of time. The next day my mother made a big production of packing a suitcase with my clothes and taking 4 siblings putting us all in the car and taking us to a big red brick house (don’t know which house this really was). She told me it was a house which little girls go that hate their parents and told me to get out of the car. I had to cross the street to do it. Just before I got out of the car, she said she forgave me and would give me one last chance. At that time, I was very grateful. A few years later when I wised up and realized there was no such house that takes little girls and it gave me more reason to dislike my mother with other "disciplinary" methods I don’t have time to write here. Therefore, I’m sure these 10 and 12 years old (yes, her too) are traumatized for life and their relationship with their mother has changed for the worse now the way mine was for years even into adulthood.