My little princess has another side...
By foxyfire33
@foxyfire33 (10005)
United States
September 11, 2008 9:58am CST
This happened almost 2 weeks ago but I was on a "break" from mylot and couldn't tell you all...my youngest daughter climbed out her bedroom window and ran away. She wasn't gone long, but long enough for the babysitter to notice and almost panic. I guess she and her brother (my oldest son) got into a fight and were sent to their rooms. My daughter was mad about that and so she decided she'd run away. First she went to the neighbors house but they weren't home. She walked up the road farther planning to go to a friend's house but to get there she would have had to cross the road on a blind corner so luckily common sense took over again and she walked back home.
She's only 8 so she's in a lot of trouble since it was a very dangerous thing to do. Mostly she just got spoken to about the dangers but she's also grounded from everything not school related. Her dad handled it all really well and called to let me know as soon as he got home.
So have any of your kids ever run away...even for just a short time?
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
11 Sep 08
OMG!! i am so sorry to hear she did such a dangrous and stupid thing. she is a smart girl to know to come back home. my children have never ran away from home before. i don't know what i would do if one of them did something like that. some times i don't think our children think, and when they start thinking about what they are doing, it can be too late.
8 is so very young to want to do something like that. and i am glad your husband was right there to tell her how dangrous that whole idea could have been. boy oh boy being a parent is a lot of work. i am glad it all worked out in the end foxyfire
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
11 Sep 08
[i]Hi foxyfire,
I have done that several times when I was young..LOL! I am brat I guess! When I am mad, I will run away and hide and my Mom will always follow me but never saw her mad or punished me! But, when I am also scared those time to go on walking the place farther from our place, I will go back home and just look for a place to hide there! LOL!
ANyway, I am very glad I had a great mom who always understand me and always talk to me after my feeling will subside!
Your daughter is a smart girl![/i]
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@saivenkaat802003 (4823)
• India
12 Sep 08
OH... I can't imagine this. I think Your daughter is so sensitive and she definitely needs extra care in the future and you hubby did the right thing in pointing her the dangers.. But still i feel that it is not enough as her, mind is so gentle and tender.. and that it cannot distinguish the good and bad. So all that she needs is the extra care..
Take care of her Foxy.
@cjgrooms (4456)
• United States
11 Sep 08
My children haven't but i still have a 12 and 13y/o at home so there is still that possibility. At least she had the good sense to come home before she went very far or ran into a bad situation that she couldn't handle. I hope your husband scared the spit out of her!
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@blackmantra_x (2732)
• Philippines
12 Sep 08
good day.. Yes it is kind of scary when children do such things like running away, crossing the street or threatening to jump out of a high window. We just need to be alert and deal with it as calmly as possible. We can't discipline them outright but it's more effective to talk with them and make them understand rather than force them using parental privileges.
@divinegwapa (914)
• Philippines
12 Sep 08
I don't have kids yet. I'm not even married yet but I can imagine what my reaction would be if my future daughter would ran away. My guess I'd be hysterical. Haha. I never thought of running away from home even if I get scolded all the time. I guess I was too afraid to be lost.
You daughter is really brave. It's a good thing that she went back home. ^^
@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
12 Sep 08
Yes, when my now 19 year old was 12 she ran away across state borders with an older boy and she was gone about 24 hours or so. I worked with the school and a police officer and tracked her down, and the police officer helped me get her back across the state line and they put her in juvenile detention and from there she was placed in a group home for six months. I let the courts handle the situation. Though the circumstances are different than theirs I did the only thing I knew to do to handle the situation.
