Parents Left HOME ALONE by Daughter
one of my brothers did something similar at a rest stop on the highway, and we all piled into the station wagon and my father took off....had to go back and get him (darn) ...(just kidding) ;~ p
my childhood. made it out alive thank God and very independent. :)
I can understand this happening with an older child - both parents thinking that the other had the child with them. Besides, an older child would notice if everyone had left without him. But with a 3 year old, if both parents are responsible, they should be both be making sure that one or the other has the child.
When Jesus was 12, his parents didn’t miss him for a day while on their way back home. Took them three days to find him in the Temple.
Luke 2.
wow.
See why we need to ban families having more than one vehicle??
/sarc
I have some friends who always traveled in a big group of family and friends and one time they were all packed up and left on a trip and about 1 hr out realized - after counting - that they were missing their youngest child who fortunately was waiting patiently at home for them to figure it out.
How awful! It has to be terrible that you didn’t know she was missing. Little ones can disappear so quickly. My 5 year old is a master at disappearing. Started doing it when she was two.
When she was three, she was playing in the snow with her brother and sister and they looked up and she was gone. We had plowed the circle driveway. No footprints were heading off anywhere. We looked frantically for 15 minutes. I thought someone had pulled into the drive and put her in their car. About the time I started to break down we heard her voice calling for us. It sounded far off. She had climbed in our car and shut the door without disturbing the snow on the windows.
Neither of my other children did things like that. They were always content to stay near my husband or me. This girl is going to give me gray hair!
.....then they relaxed at home and by 11 PM they still hadn't called around to see which relative had their child.....
.......then, thanks only to the brains of others, they saw on the late news that their toddler was missing.....
.....then, despite all the excuses for the brain-dead parents posted here by others, include the missing Jesus gambit, I am of the opinion these Fluck E. Cheesey parents should be arrested immediately, and, without a trial, given 3 weeks of hard labor (janitorial work at this pizza palace, eight hours a day including weekends).......
Leni
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.
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.