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Why Hot Cars are so Deadly Why Hot Cars are so Deadly I heard this story on NPR the other day and it hearkened back to my days of growing up in Arizona. Every year, it seemed, there was a child that died because they were either left in a hot car or because they went into one on their own. I have been very paranoid about that with my own kids. I would say "let's go" and they'd go out to the car and sit there with the doors closed! After numerous lectures on how the temperature goes up quickly and how many children have died sitting in hot cars, most of my children now go out to the car and leave the door open. Colorado doesn't get quite as hot as Arizona (today the high is only supposed to be 75) but if you instill a habit in your children early, it can protect them from a fatal mistake on one of those fluke hot summer days. You do not want to let your kids sit an oven during the summer! Be prepared.

So I was listening to my husband recommend that my mother read the book: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer and it got me thinking that we never actually read that book. We  listened  to it on a vacation and then we bought the paperback that's sitting on our bookshelf. The reader of this book did a good job telling the story. It sounds kind of grim and historical at the same time, even though it completely twisted the facts of Abe Lincoln's life as we know it as he moonlights as a vampire hunting vigilante. One of my favorite audiobook series to listen to is the entire series of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. They are read by Ramon De Ocampo, an actor who is starred in a few movies that I have never seen. He reads these books so entertainingly that I am in hysterics driving down the road with kids. It's like listening to a few hours of comedy. I actually prefer the audiobooks over the actual book, but, as my kids point out, the books add a lot to the funniness of the books. If you ca...