Leaving your children in a car?

[littlesummer947]

I have three children, all young enough that they're in carseats with a harness, and can't very easily get out on their own. Yes, I leave them alone in the car sometimes. At times, it's just impossible to take three kids in with me, and it would take ten times as long to unbuckle them and rebuckle them as I would be away from them. There have been several times when I've gotten the boys in the car ready to go, and then I remember something I left inside, so I will leave my children to run back inside my house to get whatever, and be back out within thirty seconds. When I am out and about, I will only leave them in the car when I know that I will be able to see the car at all times when I am inside, like going in to pay for gas, I can see the car through the windows the whole time. I would not run inside a grocery store for anything because I won't be able to see the car. My kids are fine with me leaving them for short periods and wouldn't be screaming or anything, I doubt they even notice that I'm gone.