So..what do you do when your 2 yr old gets into a lift and you can't get to it before the doors close?

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I can't be the only person this has happened to? Please!!!!

Paying for shopping in Tescos and ds decided to take that moment as his time for escape, sprinted off to the lifts. I finished up shouting after him, raced down there to see him jump into the life and the doors shut before I could get there. The store we were in is attached to a multi storey so I had images of him being run over and allsorts. I'm there desperately smashing on the lift (as if that's going to do anything) swearing at them for taking so bloody long trying to work out where the hell he could be in near tears. Next thing the doors open and there is ds with the biggest smile having been on the adventure of his life!!

Am I just the most horrendous mother in the world?

OMG that must have given you the fright of your life!

Not happened to me yet... but we went sofa shopping yesterday. Ds was playing with a little girl his own age while we talked to the salesman, both sets of parents keeping an eye on them. They STILL managed to clamber into a set of drawers.... could have easily had them over. Little monkeys.

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god how scary! could happen to anyone, I'm sure. don't beat yourself up over it. maybe tie him to the trolley in future though!!

nightmare Count - not happened to me, but I can so easily see how it could. Glad he was fine.

It happened to a friend of mine in a shopping centre thankfully we were all together she met a nice lady who was bringing him back down. It is a legendary story in our house and has been told to all dc's. It has however contributed to DD1's paranoia about lifts she refuses to get in unless DD2 and DS2 are strapped into the pushchair, she told DS1 whos 8 please could he hold onto the pushchair sho she knows where he is!! and then all 5 of us have to step into the lift at the same time!

Honestly my heart was in my throat - all those stories you've ever heard suddenley flash up in front of you. It defo is the last time I don't strap him up, I don't think i could go through that again too quickly!!!

how horrid. it happened with ds but as he is 14 he coped lol but still had me worried for a min so you must have been terrified

Exactly this happened to dd1 when she was about 4. To make it worse, the whole scenario took place in Paris, so all the people in the lift with her were unable to comfort her because they were speaking French.

She had a major thing about lifts for a long time afterwards, understandably enough.

I saw an american couple getting seperated on the metro in Paris, they were trying to get their bags on. What a nightmare they had just arrived I think. KIds got a briefing on what to do if this happened. Toddler in a lift gulp!!!

totally freak out

hope fervently that there's an adult in the lift with him who has common sense

ds did this when he was about 2.5.It was in a borders bookshop so it was only going down about 8 feet and I ran down the stairs and met him .I was panicking like a mad woman so I can undderstand.
Unfortunately he wasn't put off lifts and still trys to get on them.Has a wee bit more sense now and knows that being lost from us is scary.Lost him at the airport this summer