Ever 'Lost' Your Kids?

Thank god no I haven't lost my kids yet and I hope I don't . Both of mine are always with me at all times or there daddy while they are awake.

I never "lost" my son, but my mother in law did once. My husband and I used to own and run a little mom and pop convenience store. The store was right in front of the house and while we were working at the store our 3 year old son stayed at the house with my husbands mother. One day she came out to the store, all upset saying she couldn't find our son. She said she had looked every where. My son loved to hide from her, so we looked the front door of the store and started looking for him. Even some of the customers joined in the search. That child was no where to be found. I was about to call the police when it hit me. I knew where he was. I had a large female doberman, she weighed about 94 lbs, and she had just had puppies. The puppies were just over a week old. He loved puppies. I told my husband, that I bet he was out there with Becky, the dobie. So we went out to the doghouse and I go down on my knees to look in and there he was. Becky was laying on her side asleep. The puppies were lined along her belly, nursing. My son was laying with Becky, his head was on her neck with her front leg laying across him as if she was hugging him. I asked my husband to peep in, then I told him to step out of chain length. I woke my son up. When he got up, so did Becky. I petted her, then eased my son out of the dog house. If anyone, other than myself had approached that doghouse to get him out, they would have been bitten. There was a couple other incidents where he hid from his grandmother. It is a terrifying thing when you can't find a child, especially when one is only a toddler. I was almost in a panic, until I thought about Becky and her pups. I always told my son, that if he was ever outside and anyone he didn't know tried to approach him, to run to the dogs. He'd be safe, so if he got mad with his grandmother, he'd go to the dogs so she couldn't get him.

Speaking from a child's point of view, I remember getting lost and my mum searching frantically for me, we were on holiday at this caravan park, and I wondered off, trouble was all the caravans looked the same and I couldn't find my way back, I remember a couple finding me and they took me straight to the office, where I was given a drink and a few biscuits while I waited for my mum, for me it was a big adventure, not so for my mum!

i have no such experiences and as kids, we were always careful and my mom always had someone with us. but with your discussion, i remember a story told of me by my friend. he said when he was young, he was actually kidnapped by their household help and was brought to a province far from the city. what happened was, that the household help suddenly was with a conscience and returned him back. he was literally lost, kidnapped even but luckily he was returned to his parents. he could no longer remember when this was but her dad said it was about the time when he was about 2 yo.

no, i have never lost my kids once my son stood out late where the bus stop drops them off and talked to his friends. he lost track of time and was forty five minutes late coming home. i was at work at the time, all the way in another town and was on public transportation. my husband called me to tell me that he wasn't home yet. i literally fell to the floor. when they picked me up, i decided to take a cab all the way home, no matter what cost. just when i was freaking out waiting for the cab, my husband called and told he he got him, and told me where he was the whole time with his friend. i can't tell you the feeling. i never want to feel that again. well, i don't work now and my children home school, so i am glad for that.

I am considered over paranoid by some of my family members as I am pretty vigilant at having my children close or within eyesight. My 10 year old still holds my hand when we go to the store together! One time though my husband had let the kids play outside while I was at the store. When I came home they were not in the area and I panicked and started to scream at him that he did not watch them and he should have been responsible. It turns out they had gone into a friends house just a little way down. They had a great talking to about letting us know if they were going into someone elses house and to ask permission, but I remember the panic I felt at not seeing them outside when I came home. On another note I work in a store and see parents walking away from their child all the time and wonder how they could do that. We have a code that we use over the intercom for a missing child and it probably gets called once a week because people turn their backs on even little 3 year old and they wonder away. I can't understand why people would take that sort of chance....or maybe I really am too paranoid when it comes to my children!

Years ago when she was little, about 3, my elder daughter went walk-about unknown to me. We were living in Singapore at the time and I found her a short while later about 8 doors away with a neighbour we didn't know at all. They couldn't bring her home because they didn't know where she lived. Another time she went missing I headed in the other direction for some reason. There she was with our dog on the road and the dog was herding her to the side of the road and bringing her home. I have no idea how far she got but I was so grateful and amazed that the dog was looking after her. Then there was the time when she was found in the big monsoon drain. There was a deep drain at the bottom of the garden, about 2 feet deep. This drain flowed into a big main drain. We lived on a heavily sloping block so there could be a lot of water running very fast at certain times of the year. She had gotten into the drain and walked along it going under peoples fences as required till she got to the main drain. Several people were searching for her and a stranger found her and brought her home...most people in the street knew where we lived by then. Luckily, it was not the wet season because the story could have had a very different ending. Her Dad was the same and would wander off for blocks and everyone knew him and would bring him home. These were terrible times when the panic would fill my chest and I would be unable to think properly.

Too funny..Green Moo, I can't lie and say "no" now can I??? But, what a memory you brought up! Actually, it is so far in the past, I almost chuckled about it! Thinking how paranoid...I was/am as a parent, just like a clucky hen (I know you can relate to that!) Thanks for the memories and it has conjured up a whole lot more...

ONe Sat. I went with my kids out to our mall. My son was pretty small...about 5 I would say. Well the stinker hid......we couldn't find him anywhere.....we had people all over the mall looking for him.....I was just sick and crying...then all of a sudden he steps out from a rack of mens pants....they were hung on a circular rack and he had went inside the rack so he was hidden by the pants...he thought it was so funny until we got home and he got grounded to his room.

I do not recall ever losing her but I bet there have been times when she wishes that we have! I do remember when I was little going to the supermarket with my mum, I was holding her hand, and when I looked up it wasn't my mum! Needless to say both of us, the lady and me were somewhat perturbed. However, my mother reappeared and I was reunited. I hope that was an experience that earned me a treat. But I honestly cannot remember.

We were at the renaissance faire. The twins were babies, and Dearra was 5. We walked over to the petting zoo and somehow didn't notice she didn't follow us. Turned around and she was gone. The faire people had found her right away and were getting her a brownie when we showed up looking for her. She didn't get the brownie. I don't think she ever forgave us for that. :D

No, and that would absolutely be horror to me as well. We went home last Christmas to where I grew up. That place isn't the same as here where the kids have a habit of running off when we get to a department store. They'd usually end up where the video games are. But there, I told them not to go running off. There were far many people in the stores there, and kids being taken by completely stranger is not unheard of.

I haven't ever lost my kids because I don't have any, and thankfully I have never lost anyone elses.. but I was once a lost kid lol. That was traumatic I can tell you. Dandering round a shopping centre, knowing I couldn't talk to strangers, but knowing I needed a stranger to help me find my mum lol!! What did you do about your broken window lol, was he in trouble?