Have you ever got lost in a crowd in your childhood ? Have you seen those kids ?

My parents instructions are exactly that. Whenever we go to a crowded mall, what my mom would first do is to instruct us that if ever we would get lost, we should look for a guard or the information booth and request the lady in the counter to page her. So we seldom really panic when we can't find her, we already know what we should do.

It may be when I was around 7 years old,we as a family had went to see an excursion and there were lot of people around, everyone in their own activities around the fair.I and most of us were very curious to know what the excursion had in all.Thus I would actually stay long at any particular portion of entertainment or any activity being shown by artists. I was told to be holding each others arms and never to leave the grip.Well exactly the same was done but in that big crowd I was holding another persons hand for a moment or so and this was the reason for all the trouble,I got lost and the man whose hand I was holding me actually smiled at me since he too didn't had an idea, that who I was.I stood at the same spot for nearly 10 minutes and my God,my father came searching for me,I felt something like an huge relief,and a broad smile came over to both of us,the unknown man gave by another smile too.These things are regulars at places where there are many people around,for sure.

I was always so scared of getting lost when I was a child. There must be a reason for that fear but I don't remember why. There was one time my daughter got lost when she was a little girl. My mother and I were with my daughter at our local shopping mall and we were walking along, my daughter beside me and then suddenly my daughter was gone! Oh my goodness, I panicked. Fortunately we had just been shopping in this one store and my daughter recognized it and ran inside and we found her. What sweet relief to see her safe!!

I get lost when i accompany my father to theater as i always hold his hand, but I get loose from holding. I am busy watching the still photos and I never thought when I hold again the hand of the person beside me , I felt a change, when I look up..It was a different man, so I mistakenly hold another person hand thinking it is still my father. So, I get confused and i run to find my father among the crowd. I really get nervous he left me, but he still there looking at me at the corner. And, when I find him I get relief. since, that i always hold his hand tightly even pulling his shirt that I get tease by my older sisters for being a Papa girl..

Hello Philip, Sorry to hear about your bad experience happened in your childhood. I never had this lost in a crowd before. Some times back when I was in a shopping mall, I did see some little kids crying and looking for their parents. I was so pity for them, cried till the whole face was red. But lucky they are some one from the mall to assist them to look for the parents. Parents just need to be careful while shopping in crowded places.

Hi phillip_shiny That was happen to me once. I remember it was Saturday or Sunday night, me and my parents always go the certain mall because it's kinda time for me to play in timezone and other place to play. After play, I ran to other toys and then I lost my dad. I felt so scared, I walked randomly and cried quietly. Then I saw my dad's clothes, I pulled that clothes and cried. I was really surprised when it was other person who wear the same clothes as my dad. I ran and felt so afrad! Really! I started to imagine someone pick me and do cruel things or what to me When I was ready to cried loudly and shouted, my dad found me and lifted me. I cried and hug him,,hehehe.. He warned me not to run anywhere after play a games. Since that time, I always walk close to my parents in a crowded place. I know what to do now in case I'm lose again but same with you, I always remember that experienced when attend crowded place. I've seen those situation, a boy walk around, cried and shouting "mom". My family pick him and bring him to the security and announcing desk. We don't know what happened next, but hope his mom came soon!

not a crowd but it was a park, where i got lost, i tried to find my parents but did not found them so i started coming out of the park through the wall by jumping it.and outside was a busy road,at that very moment my father saw me who was finding me and took me back to the place where we were sitting. he said me, that if i should have jumped off the walls and started crossing the road i would have gone down any car as it was a busy road and i was very small that time, may be in class 1 or 2.

i never got lost myself but i had witnessed my younger sister getting lost. that was actually bit funny. i was 8-9 years young and was playing in the neighbourhood with my sis (3 yrs that time).i got busy in my play and she walked out to the main road and some passerby picked her up.that person kept asking all other passerby if they knew her and took her to the nearest temple. my father happened to visit that temple as it was tuesday and he was surprised to see my sister nicely sitting in the lap of the pujari.and thus she was recovered without much ado while i and mom were ignorant till dad returned with her and told the incident

I have never got lost totally, but it kind of happened once. My mother used to work in a different state. Once we went to the railway station to send off my mother. On the way back me and my father went to a hotel. After having food we came out, but I took the hands of another person and walked a few steps forward thinking that it is my father. But, soom my dad saw that and got me back.

It was Christmas season and everyone are in a hurry to buy food at the grocery stores for the upcoming celebration. My parents went to the nearby grocery store(mini mall) with me(I was two years old) to buy some additional ingredients and stuff to be given away. When they are about to pay my father ask my mom where am i, they argued, they both thought one of them holding my hand. They trace back the place where they went and found me outside the entrance gate of the mini mall beside the garbage can seating and waiting for them to come back.

Hi Phillip, Interesting topic to share here!! Your topic recalled me back of my childhood. I ever get lost once when I was about 8 years old. I was followed my mother and my auntie to a market for shopping. At that point of time, I am super talkactive and playful. I like to explore new things when I was out from home. So I just kept walking and walking without reliazing that my mother and my auntie has stopped at one of the shop. When i turned around, I did not see them at my back and I was so scared. I cried so loud and so many people were stared at me. I was so lucky that one of the shop assistant let me sit at her shop and calm me down. She even asked me how my mother and my auntie looks like. Lucky I just stayed at that shop for a few minutes and when my mother and my auntie reliased that I went missing,they faster go look for me. That is my only bad experience in my childhood and from that time onward, I was a good girl.will always hold on to my mother's hand when I was out for shopping. Once is enough for me.This is the first and the last bad experience in my childhood!

Hi phillip! Well, I got lost once and it was frightening but only for my parents as I was too little to realize. My mom told me she was very scared at that time, she even slaped me when the poor woman found me. I remember very little, though. However, that wasn't too serious, I have done many stupid things in childhood. I guess I needed more attention :)

nothing of that sort happened to me nor to my children although i see lots of them crying in the mall, looking for their parents. when my children were small, we used to agree where to look for themin case we accidentally leave them or themselves breaking free from our grasp and get lost. we always told them to be at the entertainment area when they can't find us. this actually happened to my eldest son and we found him to be in the area that we told them to be when they get lost.

Well when I was a kid I do remember getting lost once or twice in the grocery or in the mall. One time I even followed the wrong person into an aisle instead of my mom! now that I'm older, I don't get lost anymore. Strangely enough, it's very rare that I find children that are lost. But there was this time when I saw a mother that REALLY didn't want to let her child get lost. how did I know? She had him on a BABY HARNESS. It was funny to look at but it made sense. He was hyper!

I don't remember getting lost in a crowd as a child, but I know it's happened. I am sure it's very scary, and I am glad that people do call (through an intercom) if they can to let the parents know their child has been found and (hopefully) is safe. There's a fair that comes to a county near us that we sometimes go to - I've heard them call for people to be met at a certain point but as for having heard a call of a missing child, I don't know. Though I suppose if they are to be met at a certain point, they are lost... kind of? lol. Well have a wonderful day.

that never happened to me as a child but i did find a child crying in disney world and he was all alone so i asked him if he was lost and stayed with him until his father finally found him. you would think the man would say thank you and be grateful to me for keeping the child safe when any freak could have grabbed him and disappeared with him. but no, he just came over and the child called him daddy and he just turned around with him and left.

I recall being lost in France, literally! My family and I were on holiday in a little town called Chamonix in France and while shopping in the centre of town I managed to lose them. I must have been about seven or eight and I remember feeling so afraid. I could not find my mum and dad and could not understand the people who approached because they spoke French of course! It was awfully traumatic for me… I have experienced the other side of it when I lost my three year old in a busy shopping centre for about twenty minutes. I have never felt such fear in my life, I thought someone had taken her and wanted to yell out for somebody to close all the doors! I was frantic and crying calling her name and when someone pointed out that a young child had been found and was held at the service desk I ran as fast as my legs could carry me and to my relief and delight there she was! I was still crying and she was completely unfazed and not bothered at all about the stress she had just caused me! It was horrible...

Talking about childhood.. I remembered I was always being scared by my godma, when she took me out, she will remind me to follow closely to her, no matter where she is.. sometimes, when she is in the fitting room, she will make sure that she keep warning me to stay outside the door and wait for her.. Being someone that I am so scare of strangers, I normally stay very closely, therefore I don't have the experience getting lost in a crowd.. however, I know there is this PA system where they will announce those lost child and then with the descriptions too.. and when this happen, my godma will sure tell me that this is the problem when if I don't follow her..

When I was in kinder garden we had field trips wherein we go to recreational places such as museums, planetariums, zoos, etc. We had our activity on one of the oldest historical park here in Manila, I was so fascinated with the huge tunnel around the park because it was so old I got so curious and found myself in the middle of that huge tubeat the time I got out, I lost my classmates and teachers. Its crazy that people where like staring at me because I cried a lot. LOL !! its funny now every time I recall that childhood memory of mine.:)