Do you always know where your kids are?
By toourhealth
@toourhealth (112)
United States
May 1, 2007 11:40am CST
OK I heard this come over my police scanner last night while watching TV. There was an EIGHT year old missing that had taken off from the house I guess so the police had to hunt him down. Well I guess the night befor he did the same thing and a cop came over the scanner and said to ask the dad where they had found him the night befor. How sad is that. Two nights in a row this kid has been able to just take off and had the cops looking for him. What is wrong with this parents? I look at it this way if you can not keep track of your kids than DO NOT have them. I have an eight year old daughter and a three year old daughter and would never ever deam of not knowing where they were now or in the future. They ended up finding him by the way but not sure where. They did not say but the parents just do not relize that he could of gotten taken and never made it home so now maybe with it being two nights in a row the cops will get srs involed and help them parents out to figure out what is going on befor next time he do not make it home at all.
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10 responses
@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
2 May 07
I doubt you'll know at all times where your kids are, anybody who has been young themselves will pretty much know that what has been said to the parent and what actually happened by far isn't always identical.
Now although you don't send an 8 year old out of house, he can simply run away. Hell I did that when I was young as well, simply climbing out of the window and then climbing down from the porch roof onto the fence and going outside "after bedtime". Is that something to truly blame on the parents though? Locking the windows or placing bars on them would be the only true option.
At a later age though, if your kid is let's say 15 and it is going out on a romantic date with his/her girlfriend/boyfriend and planning to spend the night there afterwards, then chances are high instead you'll get to hear he or she is off to sleep at a friends place on a movies night or whatsoever.
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
1 May 07
These parents need to be scared into reality and be made to know that you could lose your children for good. It is not safe for them to wander off and no one know where they are. My youngest likes to go to friends houses' and not tell me so I made her start taking her phone everywhere that she goes so that I can call her and know where she is.
@toourhealth (112)
• United States
1 May 07
Im sorry to hear this about your youngest but if it was me she would never be let out of the house to go to a friends house than. You should not have to call her to know where she is at. She should tell you befor even leaving the house in my book.
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@beautyoperater (1890)
• United States
1 May 07
I would hope that the cops would say something to them. They could get in trouble for child endangerment seeing that they don't know where he is. I have a 22 year old, 20 year old, and a 17 year old and I know where they are all the time. Well atleast with the 17 year old. My girls are pretty good in letting me know who they are with and tell me where they are when they are all at home.
They all have cell phones so I call them or they call me to tell me if they will be late or if they went somewhere else.
When all three were younger I always knew where they were and who was with them. They thought I was over protective. You never know what could happen. A long time ago a little girl from our neighborhood was found only a mile from our house. She was killed and raped. It was really sad. So always keep an eye on your children even when they become adults.
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@toourhealth (112)
• United States
1 May 07
I totally agree with you on this. These days you never know who is living next door and what is hidding in their basements if you know what I mean.
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@Foxxee (3651)
• United States
2 May 07
I always know where my kids are and I am going to keep it that way. I have a 4 year old daughter and if she is outside I am with her and if I can't be outside at that moment, well then, she doesn't go out. I also have those top latches on my door and a few extra locks in case she does ever try to go outside. I'm not taking the chances. But even if she did try, I would catch her because she is under my nose all the time. I am a stay at home mom and my job as a parent is to keep an eye on her and her brother.
So I don't understand how a parent can just let their child at such a young age out of sight.
And people wonder why so many kids go missing...
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@lisagayle (393)
• United States
1 May 07
That is beyond sad. I have never had my child just take off like that and if she ever did, it would be the last time, I would put the fear of God into her. She cannot even go to her friends house down the road without a cell phone with her. I also make her check in with me every couple of hours if she is out with her friends families. Even when she goes on a school trip, I make her take her phone with her so if something should happen she can get ahold of me or her daddy. She is 12 years old and I know that I cannot keep a tight hold on her forever. but that is rediculous.
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@coolmailraj (2460)
• India
1 May 07
I don't have any kids as if now but it is really difficult for me to have an eye on my younger brother. He is just seven years old. He is a pocket dynamite. He is fast, he runs fast, cycle fast, rides his scooter fast and his mind which is always full of tricks for making others fool is fast at thinking a way outof trouble. I am sure even if someone picks him up, he will hand him over as quickly as possible.
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@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
2 May 07
I wont let that happen to my kids i guess ..i going to be nuts if i found out they are missing especially on that tender age!..i havent experienced that yet..right now all my kids are grown up and they make sure that if they did go out they will always informed me or asked permission to go out on dates or whatever..
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@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
2 May 07
Hi yes I have always known where my children were as if I did not know then I could be charged with child neglect if they got themselves into trouble and I did not know where they were. I agree with you if you do not look after your children then you do not deserve to have them. As for myself I have 5 children that have grown up now but I always knew where my children were, of course this little boy could of been taken by anyone, this little boy was very lucky maybe next time he is not so it is best to bring the authorities into this problem before it is too late.
@eanna13 (133)
• United States
1 May 07
If my child isn't with me she is with another adult that I trust. I won't even let her spend the night if I haven't met the parents a few times. I don't mean in passing I have to sit down and chat a few times. In the smallish town I live in you would be supprised to find out how many parents will just drop their kids off somewhare and run off to do whatever they want to. I would be too afraid of someone grabbing my daughter, or worse, and it could be the adult that I left her with!
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@tdbrower1969 (1242)
• United States
2 May 07
That is really horrible, but you hear of it more and more these days. It seems like a lot of parents these days do not know what parental supervision is. My son is 12 years old, and he knows the rules. He checks in, he tells me who he is with, what he is doing, and never to get into a car with strangers, and to make as much noise as possible if some stranger approaches him. I would never not know where my son is, even when he stays with friends he calls me to ask if he can do whatever the other kids are doing. I am glad that we have that trust, and I hope that we keep that trust always. I think if more people that need parenting classes because they are unsure of how to raise children, if they actually went to these classes, we wouldn't see so much of this happening in the world. But, still it seems that so many people are either too busy, or too trusting and allow their children free reign. I hate to see things happen to children who lead this kind of life.
