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give your children a cuddle!!!

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rainbowgirl · 20/11/2006 17:19

... i saw a horrible thing today in the supermarket.... possibly due to my hormonal pregnant state but i got really upset!

this little girl of maybe 6 or 7 had got lost and someone brought her to the checkout and told the lady she'd lost her mum and to put a call out..

just then the mum turned up. didn't even give the girl a cuddle or anything!! she just said 'it's not a big shop, i was right here', and started unloading her shopping!!

this child was actuallly crying and this woman (who incidentally or not was extremely posh) just ignored her.

i was so . it's not often i judge other people's parenting skills as you never know the circumstances.. but in this case.. well, if it was you, go and cuddle your daughter right now!!!

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Ruwla · 20/11/2006 17:21

This happened to my DD and she was beside herself!!! I gave her a cuddle and then gave her a telling off in the nicest possible way about wandering off. She has never done it since.

liquidclocks · 20/11/2006 17:22

bless her, I remember bawling my eyes out in sainsburys once when i lost my mum... she gave me lots of cuddles!

Thaigal · 20/11/2006 18:25

When my 5 year old son got lost in Tesco he screamed the place down...it's a tesco superstore so a huge place and EVERYONE stopped what they were doing wondering what the hell was going on...I heard him from the other end of the store! When I eventually got to him (following the wails!) he was inconsolable, practically having a panic attack, shaking and finding it hard to breathe! bless him must be so frightning for them...

Stupid bloody woman that didn't care

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hulababy · 20/11/2006 18:27

How sad for the little girl

DD has gotten herself lost twice so far and both times, although only a minute or so had past, she got lots of cuddles as she was upset and scared.

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rainbowgirl · 20/11/2006 18:33

i know i felt so sorry for her! i wanted to cuddle her myself! but that might have been overstepping the mark

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Kidstrack · 20/11/2006 18:33

ds got himself lost in Dorothy Perkins when he was 3, he was holding my hand one minute and gone the next, i had alerted the staff and they done a radio link to all the other shops as i didn't know if he had run out the shop, i went to walk out on to the street and he jumped out shouting "boo" from some clothes rails, i just burst out crying the relief of seeing him was overwhelming, and now at 71/2yrs old i still don't let him out of my sight when shopping.

Charleesunnysunsun · 20/11/2006 18:40

I got lost once on the cliffs of Devon while we were on holiday one year i was only 4 my poor mum had the police out and everything a helicopter jobby!

I had wandered back to the car and was waiting for them, my mum was in tears she gave me tons of cuddles!

I can't imagine the state i would get in if i los me DS.

jellyhead · 20/11/2006 18:48

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beckybrastraps · 20/11/2006 18:49

I was like jellyhead's dd. I was always doing a runner in shops. My mum did NOT cuddle me when I was eventually apprehended!

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rainbowgirl · 20/11/2006 19:23

awwwwww no i really didn't misread the situation. i saw the little girl and she was clearly terrified! and the lady at the till said they weren't local so clearly she didn't know the shop. the mother really did my head in chiefly because she was only concerned with what type of advent calendar to buy rather than her daughter's mental state! (reminded me perhaps of my own darling mother? )

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belgianmama · 20/11/2006 19:35

Lost dd in legoland, called security and everything. Lost her for about 20min when my BIL found her. She was OK & had been happily playing somewhere. I still gave her a massive amount of cuddles though.
DS did something similar one day too, also with resulting mount of cuddles.

AuldAlliance · 22/11/2006 08:57

Years ago, I was coming down the escalator in a big department store and found a little girl (5 or 6 yrs old) at the bottom, who told me she'd lost her mum. She was clearly upset and frightened. I said I'd help her to find her mum and asked her what she looked like. "She's wearing a red coat and she's really, really beautiful," was the reply. Fairly soon, her face lit up and she pointed out her mother to me: she was indeed wearing a red coat, but was fairly ordinary looking. When we reached her, the lady grabbed her daughter's arm hard and started screaming at her about how she shouldn't have got lost. I was only about 18 at the time and didn't have the courage to tell the woman that she was being overly nasty to a daughter who had just described her as being absolutely beautiful. It left me feeling really sad, and determined not to be so swift to scold in similar circumstances.

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