Re: Keeping Kids Safe - What do YOU do in parks?

Renee, you were lucky that you noticed you son was missing so soon.
Unfortunately, sometimes that's not the case. It's not that other
parent's aren't attentive to their kids or anything, but how many
times has your child changed his mind at the last minute, from wanting
to stay somewhere with mom to all of a sudden wanting to follow dad?
I've seen this play out at Disney (and the local Wal-Mart). Mom and
dad re-unite after briefly going their own way. Dad asks "where's
Tommy?", mom replies "I thought he went with you!" The rest is
history and the child could have been missing for any length of time
by now.

Now, from that child's point of view, he's realized that he doesn't
know where mom or dad and he panicks and can't remember his parents
name, let alone their cell phone numbers or what they were wearing
that day. (Or he doesn't even realize that their lost and he just
goes about doing his own thing.) Either way, at this point if a CM
would happen upon the child, if the child would be able to provide a
cell phone number for mom or dad, it would make the reunion happen
that much soon. Mom & dad might not have even realized that they were
lost yet, if they were still doing their own thing.

I'm glad that things went as they should when you son got lost - you
noticed quickly that he was missing and both you and your son
contacted a CM - but I'm guessing that your situation might be the
exception and not the rule.

And that is why having your kid "tagged" might be a good idea! ;o)

~Lei


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