Did your children wander away when they were little?
This child has been missing since Saturday evening. They believe he left home after an argument with a sibling. He’s done it before.
My children never did that. There was a mix up once, where the babysitter didn’t pick my son up from his half day kindergarten, and he was left alone outside of the building for quite some time, until his older sister spotted him and went and got him. They’ve never wandered away, though.
Did your kids ever run off like this?
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I wandered off a few times as a kid. Just to visit friends.
Ian’s never done that. Of course, there are no kids in the neighborhood for him to visit.
Mine did not. But my daughter when little was afraid of NOTHING, and would “volunteer” to accompany anyone she recognized without hesitation. I regard coping with her between the ages of 3 & 6 to have been one of the greater challenges of my younger days. She kept her mother & I mobile, agile & hostile, and her exploits were legendary and worthy of a book. Today we look back on the “war years” with nostalgia. It’s actually remarkable what a driven little kid can achieve when it comes to frustrating any attempts at boring routine existence.
My daughter, never, except once in Walmart when she was about 2½ she hid inside a rack of clothes and for about two minutes I was in a panic. They were just doing the Code Adam to close the store when she was found. Other than that, wandering from my house or my parents’ house, no.
@jca . When I was a toddler I used to love hiding in the clothes racks in stores. If my Mom put me in the car before her,I would lock her out a lot too.
I don’t have kids ,but helped raise a few of my nieces and nephews. When they’re little, they seem to be on a mission to kill themselves. It’s like keeping someone on suicide watch for the first years of their lives.
One time, when my son was 4, I ran a daycare. Like 8 kids. I rounded everyone up to load them in the van to take kids to school. I had gone about 3 miles before a kid noticed that my son wasn’t in the car!!! SHIT!!!
I booked it back to the house, ran in the front door and there he was, all alone, sitting in the middle of the couch with his hands in his lap, just waiting. He seemed a little concerned. Well when I put out the call to get in the van HE hid behind the couch instead!
After that I initiated a buddy check system.
I don’t have children, but that’s what I did as a kid apparently. My mom told me that I was so unafraid of anything that I had a tendency to “teleport” to anywhere I wanted. Not sure how much of it was true.
I didn’t seem to grow out of it. When I was 8 my family hired a helper for the house. We were roughly the same age so we became friends yeah, we didn’t know child labor is bad back then. But sometimes we had quarrels. When we were at the neaeby playground, I would wander away at the heat of an argument quickly. My reasoning was like this: she either had to search for me in vain or would take the heat from my parents for not keeping an eye on me if she got back home for help. That was sweet revenge, given how frantic she became every time I pulled the trick.
I was on a leash late 1940’s.
I would book in heart beat. I scared my mom more than once before the leash.
My kid did constantly. He had no sense of danger or fear. I made him memorise my phone number by 3 years old . He took off once on our way home from my shop. He stopped a stranger to use her phone. He’d never listen and would tell me what he was going to do instead of listening when I would tell him to stay put I’d come get him. He’s been pretty free range.
I wandered away constantly from the time I was four.. Scared the hell out of my parents..^^LOL, cazzie. My dad made me memorize our phone number and address also. We’d be visiting my parent’s friends a hundred miles from home and I’d look out back of their house and see a big mountain or a lake or something and off I’d go The Sheriff brought me back a couple of times.
By the time I was 6, and after a lot of spankings, I got smarter about it and timed my journeys between lunch and dinner. That got easier once I got my first bicycle. Once, when I was about eight, I drove it into a ditch and knocked myself out, miles from home. A lady found me wandering around her yard with a case of temporary amnesia, took me inside, gave me milk and cookies, gently interrogated me, then bought me home in her car. Nice lady, I’ll never forget her. But to this day, if I see an interesting looking place on a map or navigational chart, off I go.
The found the child. It is not good. Every parent’s nightmare. They found him in a pond not far from his house.
I have a son that liked to stir up things by hiding…..
I took him to pre-K and walked him to his class.
I walked to another hall and he asked the teacher
if he could go to the bathroom. He bypassed the bathroom
and went outside the school and got inside my car in
the back on the floorboard. Of course after a few minutes
his teacher could not find him and was in a tither! Everyone
in the office was in a panic and I was the only one that was calm.
See if it had been my other son I would have gone crazy but for
this son it wasn’t out of the ordinary. They searched the parking
lot and found him locked in my car. When he saw everyone around
the car and worried he started crying. Everyone was shaking their
fingers at him and I got mad. Finally the counselor asked him if he
wanted to spend the day in her office playing games! That was all
it took. This story is in his baby book for future generations.
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