Posted on 03/06/2012 8:18:22 AM PST by rawhide
It happens. Years ago my parents were helping set up for a Casino Night at Mill Brothers Monastery in St. Louis. They thought they had rounded up all five kids. The brothers called home...my brother Rick was left there. They joked he was ready for the priesthood.
I had one who would crawl into places and go to sleep. I had several horrible scares. Once she was asleep in a lump of covers on her bed. Who’d be silly enough to look there? :)
Every summer, some poor baby gets left in a hot car and is baked alive. The parent, usually a clueless "mom", always says that "I forgot the baby was in the car."
But "mom" would never forget her precious cell phone.
My daughter would fall asleep in strange places when she
was little (5,6). I found her asleep on the concrete porch
of our house, on the patio of our neighbor, in the bathroom.
Once while checking on her, I went into her room as she
was slipping off the edge of her bed still sound asleep.
She survived and is 44 now. Still sleeps at lot when she
comes home to visit.
We have 4 kids, one has been brought home by the police after escaping at the age of 3 and another was left behind at a Church gathering at 7 because we had come in two cars. Mix-ups happen. Stop being such an over reactionary.
When I was four, my parents had to call the cops when I couldn’t be found around the house.
They found me on my tricycle four blocks up the street looking at the trains.
I still do that, although not on a tricycle.
The preferred approach of this administration is to destroy families, eliminate children, and subsidize Volt automobiles.
Yes it is very scary to not immediately know where they are. I still get that panickey feeling if I go somewhere without the children and for one second forget that they aren’t with me and are safe at home or wherever.
As a former offender, can you offer me any advice for my daughter? The other day she was supposed to be playing in the yard and I found her knocking on the neighbor’s door. HELP!
Implantable GPS.
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