He got lost

What a relief it must have been! Anyway, I've never had any experience like that (knock on wood). But when I started my boys in Taekwondo, one of the very first lessons their master taught them was to memorize their parents name(because most kids just know us as mom and dad), their telephone number, and their addresses. I guess you've trained your son well.

Wow!! Some excellent tips you have shared for almost anything we have to deal with in life, especially if we have kids. I am glad that your Son was able to give out all of that information to the Police officer and they were able to find you that quick. As for taking the pictures, that is a Great thing, and I think one that most parents could learn from for sure.

Wonderful! what a clever boy!how old is he? I dare say,it's very very hard to find such a child in ten million in China.your story warn me the necessity of teaching the kids to help themself.thanks for your great tips:putting the ticket stub in the children's pocket, keep a photo of them when take them outside the door,etc.

I've lost kids so many times it's not even funny. When my sister was 2 and I was 16 I lost her in a K-Mart. Had to call security and everything. When my oldest was about 4 he got lost at a baseball game.. had to call security to find him too. My middle son almost got lost at a Renessaince Fair.. we stopped and he kept walking. I could still see him but he couldn't hear me call for him.. he just kept on going, then someone else stopped him thinking he was alone or lost (we had a baby stroller so couldn't just chase after him). My 4th son got lost in Walmart twice in the same week.. but I truly don't think he got lost the first time. He used to like to pick out his own cereal bars.. and I usually let him have one while we were shopping. Well he must have been really hungry that day because we weren't to the cereal aisle yet but he wouldn't stop asking for it. So I told him he could go to the cereal aisle and get the cereal bars and come right back.. we shop in this store like everyday so he knew his way around. Well he didn't come back and next thing I knew I heard "Lost Mommy" on the loud speaker.. ugh! I believe someone saw him by himself and brought him up front instead of letting him come back to me. The second time was he just didn't see that we were leaving and I had all 5 kids with me so lost track for a split second. I realized once we got to the door that he wasn't with us.. and we found him fairly quickly. The worst and scariest was when I lost my daughter. See.. each other time I lost a child it was in a relatively small area like a store.. somewhere they couldn't really wander off and get too lost without someone finding them. But my daughter was lost at the State Fair.. and our state fair is huge! What happened was my husband took the boys into a building to go potty while me, my friend, and my daughter sat outside with the baby stroller. One minute my daughter is there, playing around.. my friend and I are chatting. Next thing I know, my daughter is gone. I never saw her leave us. So my friend said maybe she just followed hubby in to use the bathroom. So we waited. Then hubby comes out without her and says he never saw her in there either.. that's when the panic sets in. So he and my friend run into the building to find her hoping she had just gone in there to use the bathroom. Thankfully my friend was able to find her.. she had gone to use the bathroom but hadn't found hubby in there so she went by herself and was working on coming back to us when my friend found her. So technically she wasn't lost because she knew exactly what she was doing.. but it still scared the life out of me. She was only like 6 at the time! Thus far I've not lost my youngest.. but he's generally in the stroller when we go to crowded places like that.. I'm sure I'll probably lose him for a moment some day! As long as I eventually get them back unharmed that's all that matters!

I am so glad that your son knew what to do in that situation. Thumbs up to him! It is so important that children know their name(s) and family member names, probably from the time they can talk. I am just impressed he remembered what you were wearing! Sometimes I don't even remember what I am wearing and I dress myself! I remember being at my older brother's baseball game years ago, back when we could go to the park while our parents watched the game. I was at the park with a friend and my younger brother. There were other children playing at the park too. This guy came up to the group of kids and said that his girlfriend lost her ring in the sand. There was no girlfriend in sight, but we were young and naive then, so we helped him "look for the ring". We never found this so called ring, and when we were done looking, my younger brother was gone. He was not anywhere on the park, so my friend and I went back to the baseball field my parents were at. I was crying and hysterical. We went looking for him and THANK GOD he was sitting at another baseball field. Who knows, the guy could have been using the ring as a tactic for an abduction, but thankfully everyone ended up being ok. So scary!

hello dora, it must have been very scary for you. i am sure that everyone panicked just as they learned about it. youre first thought would be he is sick and must be very afraid losing his companions. but then his finding a police was a good thing. am very glad all is fine now. ann

oh my, but its also good that she was an actual cop since i dont want to say how often it happens they are not. anyway, thats great you got him back. all very good ideas you have. i lost one once because my 3rd hubby took them over to a friends house to visit. they had 5 kids to, we had 4 at the time. believe it or not, he left with only 3 kids in the car.!! can you believe he didnt count heads. and the older didnt say anything/? the youngest was 4 yrs and when they got home i asked wheres the youngest? the oldest told me, he stayed there playing. so i called over and the friend was laughing and said the youngest told him, crying, my dad left me. anyway he said he'd bring him over as soon as they all went for ice cream, so he got ice cream for being left...lol!!

We lost a child at Disney Land many years ago, I still remember the terror. Our story also had a happy ending. Thanks for the tips, I'll pass them around the family.

I am so glad that your little man is safe and sound. He acted so mature and did exactly what he should have done. At the large arena's like that it is easy for a child to get confused. I am so glad he is safe & sound. It is a great tip about the ticket stub! I hope you enjoyed the rest of the ball game. My older kids never got lost that way before. They are 21,20 & 17 now. I do have a 21 month old and twins on the way. The 21 month old already has his father's adventurous spirit so I might find myself looking for him quite often and not by accident.

i think that your comment is very good.although i have no children.but i often hear something that their parents haven't noticed child and lost,even they want to look for them.but there is no any clue and finall find them.so i find that this is considerable thing.i find that your child is very clever,what he do at least know how to protect himself and let him easy back to parents.

i got lost once twice when I was a kid. i really had a poor sense of direction then, come to think of it... i still do. You should really be proud of your son because it isnt easy to remember what you were taught in scary situations like that. When I got lost i could do nothing but cry. Your kid is very smart to have presence of mind to look for that police.

Firstly, so glad he was found and that he remembered all the tips shown at home. [*wipes forehead*] I have not lost a child in an event but did in a store. I remember it like yesterday and this was several moons ago. OMG, it was half a second and my daughter walked away. I went nuts and all sort of flashes came over me. I began to run around the store like a lunatic and worried where she was. All of a sudden I hear the PA system that a child and they stated her name was at the service desk. She was 6 years old and while I was going nuts she went to the desk and said my mommy will not find me. So she gave them my name. lol The tips provided are certainly very useful ones, because at a moment of distress sometimes we cannot think clearly. I went bonkers.