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?

Constantly.

My own younger child used to get parked various places as a baby while I forgot all about her. It's rather hard to know where my deliberate, considered policy of relaxed parenting ends and actual forgetfulness begins. I don't actually think people steal unattended babies from parks very often, so I would intentionally leave my sleeping child on a blanket under a tree without watching her continuously. But I did intend to glance in her direction every few minutes to see that she wasn't distressed and that she hadn't unexpectedly mastered crawling and made a beeline for the river.
Sometimes half an hour would pass before I would suddenly think "BABY!!!!! ...oh good she's still there."

Other people's kids at the park, quite often. I joke about it to my friends so at least they know their kids won't get watched properly if they are left with me. Trouble is, neither of my own kids needed close watching and so I never got into the habit. I often start off with good intentions but then zone out for a while before thinking, "Oops, I'm meant to be keeping an eye on J. Where on earth has he gone? Must find him before his mum returns and asks where he is and I have to admit I don't even know when I last saw him."

Surprisingly no! I'm a total scatterbrain so it surprises me that I've never forgotten them.

I was unaware that the school policy on reception class finishing times had changed though. DS1 got straight into full days, and I got a nasty shock when I found out at lunchtime of the first day that DS2 should have been picked up. That little gem of information was tucked away discretely halfway down page 14 of a booklet that I was skim reading by that point because I'd already gone through the process two years earlier and boredom had kicked in long before I'd got to that page... drop them the green gate at 8.55, yes, yes I know that, sigh... turn over...
In good news, I'd just got home from a run and hadn't stopped my watch so managed to record a new pb on my sprint speed

That's not the same as forgetting though

Didn’t forget, but went somewhere 40 minutes away to collect daughter, it turned out I was supposed to collect her from somewhere close to home!!

My Dad left my new born sister outside my infant school. He had parked her outside in the pram and gone in, as was the norm in 1989 apparently, dropped me off and left via another exit. He says he's never run anywhere as fast once he realised when he was half way home. Thankfully not a huge distance and she was found being cooed over by the headmistress who knew him and apparently assumed he'd figure it out quickly. Said sister is now a social worker and never tires of telling him that these days there would have been a safeguarding referral.

I'm a nanny. I lived in town A and worked in town B for two years, taking the two young children out and about and regularly using the local Waitrose. At home I shopped in Tesco.

Then I moved to town B, a few weeks later I was shopping in Waitrose and wandered away from my trolley, picked up a few bits and pieces turned back to put the stuff in the trolley and couldn't find it or the children, panicked, ran to the nearest staff and told them someone had taken the children and my shopping, she got security, customers were running about trying to help find them when I realised it was my day off and children were safe and well with their parents, I'm ashamed to say that I slipped out of the shop and have never returned.

My dad left me in a field for over two hours when I was a couple of months old. He insists this was my twin brother's fault because he was such a noisy and demanding baby that he felt like two.

No but I was a childminder for 15 years and it used to be a regular anxiety dream of mine. This thread is bringing me out in a cold sweat!

Zany, my mum did that with me. Left me asleep in my pram outside the post office (you couldn't take big 70s prams into shops), came out and walked home without me. In her defence, I was a crap sleeper and she was pretty sleep-deprived. I was fine.

Yes I forgot my friend’s DD. Used to collect her one day a week and keep until her DF collected her a couple of hours later. Different school to mine, minor detour. Completely forgot. No mobiles back then, didn’t realise until I heard her father’s voice on the phone! Dreadful sinking feeling...

When I was 11 my teacher sent me to get the PE equipment for the school trip we were taking. I dutifully collected it and was walking towards where the busses were and saw the last one driving off without me! I went back in to the school, rather upset I was missing the trip (orienteering!) and the school secretary took me in her car- it was an hours drive away... when we got there she told me to hide behind her and went up to my teacher and asked "did you forget something?"- the look on his face was priceless as he realised what had happened!

Yes, I have, a friend's child.

I left my baby on the doorstep for about 10 mins whilst getting the shopping in. Thought it was quiet went to check on her and she was lying there happily staring at the sky!

I forgot to make my youngest dinner, until he appeared in the dining room where we were tucking in and said rather sadly ' don't I get a dinner ?' Have no idea where my brains were

My dad did this to me too