To ask if you have ever forgotten a child?

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Especially one thats not yours! neighbour text at 1 p.m. to say she was going to be held up at work and could i walk A home (17 year old sibling gets in from work at the same time we get back from school). I said yes...

Then utterly and totally forgot. Luckily school put A into after school club till neighbour could get her. I have apologised profusely and feel utterly awful.

AIBU to ask if anyone else has done similliar to make me feel better?

My mum left me in a trolley in a supermarket car park. She'd driven up the road before she realised!

My mum forgot me in a supermarket when I was one week old and drove two miles before remembering she had a baby. She says she wasn't used to having a me yet (but still apologises every time she gets drunk - it's not as though I remember).

Jenala, x-post. Are you my sock puppet?

We have forgotten DD twice. When she was about 5, we left the house and closed the front door. We were getting in the car when we suddenly realised someone was missing!
She's 14 now. The other day we had been to the supermarket. She went to take the trolley back. We got in the car and drove off. DS2 said, "Aren't you going to wait for DD?" Oops.

I left my eldest in the Body Shop when he was four days old. I only realised because my handbag was missing (in the bottom of pram).

This one wasn't me but some friends on a long drive South to North with their two sons aged about 12 and 7. Youngest moaned that her needed the toilet and parents agreed to stop at the next services whilst moaning that they just wanted to get going.
So they arrived at services, all decided to rush in for a quick wee, meet back at the exit no later than 5 mins. Off they rushed but back at the exit ... no youngest. The minutes ticked by, they started to panic, checked the loos, checked the rest of the service station ... nothing. The dad went to report to security. The mum ran back to the car to get her phone.
Sitting locked in the car - furious and still dying for a piss - was youngest son.

Yup, up the Eiffel Tower. Oops.

Haha Bossy I don't think my mum went quite as far as 2 miles

No but my neighbour forgot to pick up dd as we had arranged the head rang me up but I didn't hear the phone so the head walked her home - mortifying. What made it worse was that I had asked neighbour as I was single handedly holding birthday party for dd2 so couldn't wait for dd1 in case I lost any of the 8 little boys I had with me. Head arrived and my house was utter mayhem (despite dds assurances post school 8 year old boys are not interested in sitting quietly and doing craft...). I also proved that day it is not possible to provide the entertainment and the food at a child's party if that is of any help to anyone.

I tried a couple of times, but some interfering busybody helpful person always noticed and shouted me back . . .

Not in real life, but I've had recurring dreams for years about forgetting or misplacing my baby (leaving baby in the car, only realising when I find a bag of groceries in the crib and so on). I imagine this was my subconscious telling me that I'm not cut out for the responsibility of parenthood.

My grandma left me in my pram outside a shop - she told my Mum I was asleep in my pram at the front door (this was 62 years ago). It was ages before she realised what she had done - the shop assistants were trying to do their job whilst passing round a screaming baby.

My PIL forgot to pick up my DC from school - 25 years ago. The school phoned whilst I was in a meeting. I phoned my FIL who said (rather brusquely) that he was sorry they had forgotten but MIL was out in the car so they couldn't go now. My parents were away from home, so I had to leave my meeting (they weren't impressed) and rush to pick the boys up. The lollipop man was so kind and had stayed with them in the playground. I never quite forgave them (inside).

My mum left me at the shops. It was in the olden days when you left babies outside in their prams

I forgot to pick DD up from primary school one evening after the annual Christmas production. Much to my embarrassment the Head phoned me to come and get her. I mumbled an apology about getting my timings mixed up - couldn't quite bring myself to admit I'd forgotten. Fortunately we lived across the road from the school so I was there in like 30 seconds.

Not me, no.

My mum put my twin in the car and left me in the trolly and drove home.....

She did come back for me....

That is Joey and Chandler from FRIENDS by the way.

When they left the baby on the bus.

My parents have form for this,
I once called DPs to ask if they could look after DD (11ish) the next day as she was a bit under the weather and I needed to go to work. DM was busy but volunteered DF to set off early. So I left DD tucked up expecting Grandad to walk through the door within half an hour or so. 2 hours later I get a plaintive call from DD- is Grandad coming to look after me? Poor love, he had completely forgotten, and DM hadn't put in the diary, as I had called after wine-o'clock.

I've done the "It's Tuesday so pick-up is later..... Oh, shit no, it's Wednesday!" realisation a few times but never been late enough for it to matter.

I was forgotten in the front garden once (3 older siblings must have pulled the door behind them). I was too small to reach the doorbell and too silly to walk round to the back door. DF found little orphaned me shivering on the doorstep well after nightfall.

When I was at primary school we went on a trip to the zoo. The teacher left one little girl behind.

My neighbour forgot to pick up my DS once, I forgot I was watching my 3yo niece at an outdoor event while her dad was indoors at the bar (she was fine, but a heart stopping moment when I remembered and ran around looking for her) and I forgot I had a baby when DS was 2 weeks old, I went for Sunday lunch with friends and a woman who I didn't know (but a friend did) offered to hold him while I ate - 10 minutes later I remembered him - thankfully she was sitting nearby but I had been pretty oblivious.

I was left in my carrycot in Sherwood Forest by my parents who were halfway home before they realized.

DW left DD1 in pram outside grocers and walked home before realizing and going back to find her still asleep.

My parents did this to me sometimes. I still remember crying outside school aged about 6 because everyone had gone and my mum forgot to pick me up. Eventually the head found me and called her. I still feel crap when I think I've been abandoned or left out of something.

I forgot my baby was in her pram the other side of the checkout in Morrison's. She was about a week old the lady in the checkout had to remind me as I walked away with my shopping and my 2 year old

"I wish that bloody woman would keep that bloody child quiet"

Jacana