Have you ever experienced being lost when you were a kid?

yes, i got lost too. i was 8 years old then and it happened on the feast of a local patron saint. just around this time... more than two decades ago. :) i was impatiently waiting for my parents and i was totally bored. i didn't know anybody coz it was in another town (very rural) where everything is so unfamiliar. so i told the host that i would go home by following someone who lived in our town... what i didn't know was that she took a short cut and she didn't know i was following her. she went down the side of the hill, crossed two rivers, a small creek, and went up 88 steps to reach the beginning of the next town. when i finally made it to the top, she was nowhere in sight and i had no way of telling which direction she took. so i just walked on and on. for a small child the distance was enormous... :) anyway, an elderly lady who knows my family noticed me walking in the street alone. when i told her i was lost she walked me home. all in all the ordeal took 3 hours. i didn't cry during the time. but when i got home, my parents were there, so angry and worried... i experienced my father's belt the first time. that's when i cried.

Yes, when I was kid I was also lost in the vegetable market. I had gone to the vegetable market with one of my uncles, he asked me to wait in the car..till he bought the vegetable. I remember ....that I waited for few minutes and after that came out of car and entered the huge vegetable market ....looking for my uncle....could not find him for a long period...started crying...he located me after a very long time. Was 6 years ...but still remember the incident.

When I was about 4 I wanted to be like my older siblings, like to be independent and so I decided to go out to take a walk and managed to leave our house without being seen and proceeded to continue walking after I got to the end of the street and ended up about 5 miles away and some lady noticed I was by myself and because I was always told not to talk to strangers of course I wouldn't give her my name or phone number but somehow the nice policeman got it out of me and I had no idea what the commotion I caused; my mother and father were frantic with worry, my sisters got yelled at, and the change I got from the nice policeman after he dropped me off at home for an ice cream was promptly absconded by my Mom wanting to discipline me for taking off and I only remember being angry when being tucked into bed that I wasn't going to get my ice cream. Needless to say that's the only time I remember leaving my safe home because I do remember other such times when I ate 3 delicious home-cooked meals daily as well as all the times I had all kinds of snacks (never gaining weight in my childhood because I always remember eating good balanced meals). I was always taken care of, I just wanted to go for a walk by myself. I'll never forget that memory and I thank you for allowing me to share my real-life story of being lost when I was a kid.

LOL My mom took a picture of me"lost". I was sitting on a bench crying, and she was about 4 feet in front of me. I was even looking RIGHT at the camera. I was so scared I did not see them there.

Yes, once when I was very small. I was about 5 years old and I was in the library with my father. Our deal was that I stayed in the children's section upstairs until he came to get me (we went every Monday evening). Well, one evening I was feeling brave and thought I could go downstairs and find my father myself. I was wrong and I quickly started crying because I just couldn't find him. Some people noticed me and started asking what was wrong and my father must have heard the commotion as he quickly ran up to me. Let's just say I was very relieved to see him!

To be honest with you I can't ever remember being lost as a child. Being one of nine children my parents always made one of the older children look after us younger ones. The older siblings knew better then to lose one of the younger ones because of not wanting to make our father mad. There was once when I was about two that my grandmother allowed us to go to the park which was right by her house to play my older siblings put me in to a swing so that I couldn't wander off while they played. When they went home they left me in the swing.

I really don't recall ever being lost as a kid but I have had a moment where I lost one of my kids. We were at Disneyland and we were going down an escalator. My daughter let go of my hand and refused to go down just as we were stepping on. I yelled at her to wait and I'd go back and get her. I went back up and she was gone....I searched around and couldn't find her...after a few minutes I went back down and she was there...someone had taken her down and was waiting for us there....it was the most terrifying moment of my life.

LOL..I think that is the classic one, surely everyone has been lost in a mall. I remember I was, I was so scared. But looking back now it was funny. You see kids now lost at the mall crying and you just feel sorry for them, because you know what it is like.

I'm not sure how old I was, but I do remember this time I was lost...I had gone to the town centre to do some shopping with mom and Spud (my uncle) and Spud went into a store and told me to stay in this one isle. Now, just like most kids, I did not do this and wandered around, and then could not remember where I was supposed to meet Spud. I walked out of the store crying and this old man saw me and took me to the customer services desk, where I was reunited with my uncle. To say that I was terrified would have been putting it lightly...and I never trusted Spud again, even to this day.

i got lost when my family and i were looking for toys in this big toy store. i was about 6 or 7 yrs old. i got stuck up on the toy that i was looking at. then when i was done playing with it, i became aware that i was really lost. i almost cried and i was shouting their names out loud. everyone was looking at me and they looked worried. then when i saw them, they were laughing at me and they said that they were just hiding from me. i then cried after that, while my siblings were laughing at me. D:

I was little bit younger, about 4 or 5 and it happened in this open area church. it was a big area and there were plenty of pilgrims that time. although i have a vague idea of this happening, my mom can totally recall this incident. I got separated from them and they were frantically searching for me in the vicinity. when they went out to the parking lot, i was there waiting for them in the car. and i was like, "where did you go? why did you get lost?" in a really innocent, calm way. haha!

Yes. I believe I was around 5 or 6, this is one of the earliest memories I can remember. We were at some kind of shopping store, that had racks of clothes and also some food products and stuff like that. I remember hiding under one of the racks of clothes, and she paid for her stuff and left me! I started to cry and panic, and a couple of minutes later she obviously realized and came back looking for me. I was so sad that I got lost like that though, I remember crying for hours after I got home!

ya it has been with me too i was walking with my parents on the railway platform and my parents were walking real fast so i was kinda behind and was watching my dad and following him. it was crowded there so i was kinda lost and got panicked then an uncle held my hand asked what happened... he was about to take me somewhere may be police station or i dunno... then my mom came and took me... i was really scared! what if that guy was bad and took me elsewhere... maybe i wud be someone else and not answering this post rite now!

Yes that was the most memorable moment in my life. I got lost in the shopping mall too. I was supposed to be walking with my parents but something (can't remember what is it) caught my attention and I stopped walking. Apparently my parents didn't notice that I wasn't by their side. When I turned back, they were gone. I wasn't panic and went to the information counter. However I did not know what to say and started panicking. I cried so loud that my parents heard my cries and found me while they were searching for me.

Yes, I was about six at the time we were holidaying in Fleetwood which is a seaside place near Blackpool in the UK, we were staying in a caravan in a very large caravan site and you know when you are young all caravans look alike especially to a six year old, anyhow I went wondering off to play but when it was time to return I couldn't find our caravan, I wondered around getting worried that mum would be missing me, so I managed to find the public house on site and I went in. I got a lovely ride in the jeep back to my caravan where my mum was going frantic! All I kept on about was can I have another ride in the jeep, to me it was a big adventure to mum it must have been a big nightmare!

As far as i can remember , i did not experience being lost, since i always have the habit of roaming around when im still a kid and familiarizing the sorroundings first

Yup, I had a similar experience too when I was around six years old. It was also at a shopping mall and I had to go to the little boys room and my mom said she'll be right here standing when I come out. Well, guess what? I did my business and come part but apparently the shopping bug bit her. Panicking, I started crying and to make a not-so-long-story short, was reunited with my mom about half an hour later when the receptionist made a public announcement. moms...

I remember a story about my younger sister.when she was 10 years old,one day she left school but had not came home until pm 14:00(It was a rainy day),but not gave a ring to my family.we were so worried about where she had gone.Dad and I left home ,gone to school but her teacher said that she had not seen my sister.we were afraid about traffic accident.I believed that my sister could not go through the highway ,she was too shy and timid little girl to come home alone .but in the end ,we were lucky to find her on the way home !It was the time nearly PM 15:00!

yup happened a couple of times to me and its totally freaky everytime.

Dear friend, In my case when I was kid my parents used to care me well and they never let me alone out. More over our places is also not much secure for kids or childern to roam there alone. Moslty someone would be with me always.