Sense, Nonsense, and Not-Sense

Holy crap! Way to go Wal-Mart. The thing is, babies really don't have any type of ID for them, other than having mum carry around a birth certificate. Even for babies and children to travel, if they're under the age of ten, they go without ID or they are listed on their mother's passport. I wonder if soon there will be required ID for kids to be carted around by the parents - or somehow attached to the kids. Also, how do you lose a BABY in a store? I mean, I can understand a toddler/young child wandering off on their own, but a baby? How's that for bad parenting on the part of the parent of the missing child to just walk away from their grocery cart that has their child in it? Heck, I've probably seen women more possessive of their carts that hold their purses than that parent had apparently been!

I also wonder how an ID card for a child would work, anyway. a photo and listing the height/weight could be pretty misleading, considering the rate some kids grow at. And how would you attach ID to a child anyway? Younger children certainly don't carry around wallets and purses (well, okay, little girls carry purses, but those usually are for pretend purposes and nine times out of ten probably contain rocks and a few pennies).

It's no wonder parents are so possessive of their children.