Posted on 05/18/2008 1:02:05 PM PDT by Oyarsa
Harried family forgets tot in Vancouver airport Air Canada staff took care of boy while father flew back from Winnipeg The Associated Press updated 9:54 a.m. CT, Wed., May. 14, 2008 VANCOUVER, British Columbia - An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.
Jun Parreno, the boy's father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as he, his wife and two grandparents of the child, J.M., were scrambling between their arrival in Canada and a connecting flight to Winnipeg on Air Canada.
Running late after having to unpack and repack all their luggage, "we had 10 minutes before boarding," said Parreno, who was emigrating with his family from the Philippines. "We were running for the gate."
He said he thought his son was with the three other adults, who were running to the gate ahead of him, and they thought the little boy was with him.
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When we were small, my folks left one of us at church. They had taken two cars to church (probably one had to be there early for a meeting) on that particular Sunday, and when we left each thought my sibling was in the other car. Of course, when we got home, they realized their mistake and rushed back to church...to find a very MAD 5 year old.
I think you missed my point.
You and your wife and your grandparents and children are immigrating, you’ve just spent several hours in customs,
all of your possessions have been opened and examined and then hurriedly repacked as you rush to meet a boarding deadline, it’s possible to be a bit confused at that stage.
BS. BS. BS.
“Home Alone” KEVVINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
I copied the article title without comment. You’ll have to take up the choice of “forget” with the journalist who wrote the article.
BTW, the keywords were the ones I chose, except for “oops”; not sure how that one was included. I am new here.
LOL!
You’re going to have to be more specific; what in the article do you find to be “BS”?
My husband dropped our 3 yr old son off at his father’s one evening without making sure that he was home?!?!? The lights were on, his vehicle was there and he waited until our son had entered the house before he left.
After finding out that no-one was home our son walked the 1/4 of a mile back to where my husband had left his PU while he went with a friend to find a part or a tool. I had taught him how to climb in the back of the PU and crawl through the window so that’s what he did and then he went to sleep.
When my husband found him asleep in his PU about an hour later he went to find out why his father would do such a thing and his father wasn’t there.
When they came home my husband was still mad at his father for putting our son in his PU and leaving him alone in the dark, in the middle of nowhere. He knew that our son couldn’t open the door of his PU and he was convinced that his father was the one who had put him there.
We finally woke the poor kid up and asked what had happened and my husband felt horrible. Our son was pretty matter-of-fact about it, he said he was scared so he just went to sleep so he wouldn’t be scared. It didn’t seem to traumatize him and after I yelled at his dad, I told him how proud I was that he had taken good care of himself.
and most parents of teenagers are thinking, "better luck next time!" :o)
You definitely have more going for you than these people, probably more than about 90% of the people on earth.
Bully for you.
You have my sympathy.
My son was all ready to hitch a ride to NYC with a trucker and PARTY TIME.
Sounds like hubby took a page out of the “Bear’s Guide to Raising Offspring” manual.
The mother bear will “order” its two year old/nearly two year old young up a tree. (That’s the equivalent of a teenager/young adult in human years) and walk away from the tree. When the “cubs” try to follow, Mom chases them up again, until the “cubs” get the message and stay.
Mom never comes back; the cubs climb down when they’re hungry enough and live on their own.
I remember traveling from New York to Florida by car in 1959 to visit the grandparents. I, my sister, my mother (driving) and a friend of my mother's. We stopped somewhere in Virginia for lunch and took off down the road -- minus my 3 year old sister.
I was aware that we'd left her, but at 6 years old I wasn't terribly concerned. Mom noticed missing child in the back seat a couple miles down the road; we returned, picked her up and continued on. Child Protective Services didn't exist in those days to punish parents (and their children) who've made a mistake and sis grew up to be a loving wife, sister and successful businesswoman.
She also inherited Dad's sense of humor and laughs her a** off to this day when we retell the story to friends and our younger siblings..
Still NO EXCUSE to lose a child.........
“I was aware that we’d left her, but at 6 years old I wasn’t terribly concerned.”
No sibling rivalry there...
:)
Funny things happen, although they are less likely when the kids are young.
My parents were fairly old parents (mid 50’s) when my much younger brother was about 12. They were pretty absent minded. Once on a driving vacation a few years after I had left home and was on my own, they drove off and left him at a gas station, and got about 10 minutes down the road before they turned around to talk to him in the back seat and realized he wasn’t there. They were back to pick him up before he got too wound up about it.
Don’t know, and don’t care, what that means.
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