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Anyone lost a child?

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tissy · 04/09/2005 09:28

Following the recent spate of threads on MN about leaving children unattended I saw this on the BBC this morning.

Any MNers not checked their kids recently?

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colditz · 04/09/2005 09:29

That's frightening! Have the police not found the parents yet?

NotQuiteCockney · 04/09/2005 09:31

I thought I had lost DS1 on Tuesday this week. I was in the kitchen, preparing lunch. I heard DS1 making noise, then didn't hear him for a while. The front door was open (it generally is, we live somewhere v quiet), and the front gate was open, too (which it generally isn't). DS1 knows he's not to leave the front garden without letting me know.

I came out of the kitchen to check on DS1. Called him in the house, couldn't find him. Went in the front garden, couldn't find him. Went down the path to the car park, couldn't find him. Got very frantic.

Came back to check the house again, and found him in his bedroom, in the loft.

I kept saying "I thought you'd gone out of the front garden.", and he'd very calmly say "But I didn't, mum, I was right here".

Nemo1977 · 04/09/2005 09:32

aww poor child....luckily my ds comes straight to us...and also cant tackle the rollerblind stair gate..lol

Hulababy · 04/09/2005 09:34

How scary. Have they found the parents yet I wonder? Surely by now they have. Poor little boy

SherlockLGJ · 04/09/2005 09:36

How bizare, no update, nothing when you google

Amanda1 · 04/09/2005 09:38

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tissy · 04/09/2005 09:51

I thought I'd lost dd a few days ago, as well. Heard the front door opening from the kitchen, but thought it was the wind, as the back door was open. Few minutes later went to shut it and realised that dd(3) wasn't in front of the telly where I'd left her. Called in the house- no reply, called in the front garden - no reply. Eventually found her in dh's shed in the back garden..she had gone out the front and round the side of the house to avoid going past me in the kitchen.
Me: "Why were you in Dayy's shed?"
Her: "Cos I wanted to play with his tools"
Me: "But it's dark inthere, and you don't like the dark!" (It's a BIG shed)
Her: "It's OK, I took my Barbie torch with me..."

The little minx had thought of everything

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tissy · 04/09/2005 09:51

that should read "Daddy's shed", obviously

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SherlockLGJ · 04/09/2005 09:52

tissy

SherlockLGJ · 04/09/2005 11:05

Lost child reunited with parents
A toddler found wandering the streets of Warrington has been reunited with his parents.
The boy, thought to be two or three years old, was wearing pyjamas and trainers when discovered by a member of the public on Saturday morning.

Cheshire Police said the youngster was found on the corner of Shetland Close and Enfield Road.

The child was cared for by social services until police managed to locate his parents.

Kelly1978 · 04/09/2005 11:10

Glad that all sorted. Wonder if he is like my ds, who seems determined to lose me. As soon as I get in a shop he runs in the opposite direction. I was in Woolies for 2 mins and an annoucement comes over the tannoy as I was hunting for him. And there was ds, as pleased as punch sitting on the entertainment counter getting loads of fuss and attenion. Don't think he likes me very much.

Distel · 04/09/2005 12:08

I lost ds (5) when I took them to Weston-Super-Mare on the train by myself the other day. We were on the Pier and I told them all to come with me to get some change. We got there and found he wasn't with us, we walked back to the place we were and he wasn't there, we called his name and still couldn't find him. He was only lost for a couple of minutes and we found him in the end with another lady with children. He had been so sensible - he had gone to a lady with children and explained he had lost his mummy and told her what I was wearing and asked her to help him. I was so proud of him, not only had he remembered what Iwas wearing he had done exactly as I had told him at the begining of the summer holidays and found someone safe to tell.

happymerryberries · 04/09/2005 12:10

Lost ds for about 5 minutes in Eurodisney.

The worst five minutes of my life

Enid · 04/09/2005 12:12

i lost dd1 in IKEA when she was about 2

horrible

I found a little lost boy in Victoria Park in Bath last weekend, running panicking across the roads and screaming his head off. He was 4 - I took him to the lost persons office and his gran came and got him. He was a lovely little boy bless him.

Distel · 04/09/2005 12:14

I don't take the children to Victoria Park by myself because it is to big and I cant keep track of all 3. I live in Bath, and it is a lovely park, they will love it when they are older.

Enid · 04/09/2005 12:15

I have done it once (with 2) and it was a bit of a nightmare

I tend to go with a friend or dh now

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