About an hour ago me and my little boy who’s 2, nearly 3, were playing a game in the living room. He kept grabbing his little rucksack and saying “bye mummy I’m going to work” then shutting the living room door and sitting on the bottom stair giggling. When he did it the final time I left it a minute but he didn’t come back in the living room and I couldn’t hear him so I was shouting him and to my absolute horror went into the kitchen and found the back door wide open. He’d ran out and down the side of the house through our gate which I’d shut but not locked and I found him wandering in the road crying and shouting for me. We live on a fairly busy road, well it’s very busy during rush hour, and cars had stopped both ways. It’s meant to be 30mph but cars fly down. I grabbed him and apologised to the first driver who was lovely but I am absolutely mortified and I don’t know how I’ll ever get over this. It could have ended terribly and I feel like the worst mother ever. It’s completely my fault for not making sure that the gate and back door were both locked.
I’m worried that one of the drivers is going to call social services or something. I just don’t know how I’m ever going to get over this and that I could have lost my little boy.