Parents Talk: Would You Bring Your Child to a Tanning Booth?
In this week's Parents Talk, we ask parents if they would bring a young child into a tanning booth with them while they tan.
Parents everywhere gasped in collective shock last week when word got out that New Jersey mother-of-five Patricia Krentcil let her 6-year-old daughter tan in a tanning bed.
Krentcil's daughter, Anna, told officials at her elementary school that her mother let her tan in a bed when the fair-skinned little girl showed up to school with a sunburn.
Krentcil, who readily admits to tanning on a regular basis and who sports a dark bronze hue, says the child's sunburn was the result of playtime outside, not time in a tanning bed. She does admit to bringing the kindergartner with her when she tanned.
"I’d never endanger her life by putting her under the ultraviolet light," she insisted to a reporter at NJ.com.
Krentcil has pleaded not guilty to a second degree child endangerment charge.
What would you do? If you tanned in a tanning bed, would you allow your child to accompany you into the booth while you did? Tell us in the comments.
Anne Carothers-Kay
9:48 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
Seems like this woman has an unhealthy obsession. But is it illegal for a tanning business to allow children to tan?
Jody Gifford
11:35 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
I don't know what, if any, effects there are to secondhand tanning but I don't know that I'd test that. If you can't find someone to care for your child while you tan for 12 minutes, maybe you should wait until a time when you can.
Jim Zupan
12:44 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Tanning beds are just another sign of how humans have evolved into idiots. Take a look at the people you know who do tan. Do see how they have not aged real well, and that leather hide they use to call skin. How can a person that is vain enough to use one, not be smart enough to know what it is going to do to them.
Shentia Miles
11:28 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
OMG dis lady is totes sick in da head! iz juss upsettin dat she wood put her doter up to dis ish! ugh brakes ma hart!
Anne Carothers-Kay
8:35 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Want to be shocked? Check out the photos of the woman: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+photos+Patricia+Krentcil&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=gyCpT6nwFsSbiAKrrYCwAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBUQ_AUoAQ&biw=1149&bih=580
Anne Carothers-Kay
8:39 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Want to be shocked? Take a look at the google photos of this woman here: http://bit.ly/Jnptfw
David Leonard
11:43 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
I know a couple of women who do a lot of tanning in the summer sun, and their skin has paid a serious price for doing so. Like Jim Z. (above) I have never understood why women who care about their appearance do that to themselves.