As a Mom I am sure you can relate to those moments of panic when you can't find your child. I have a three year old and the other day I got the scare of my life. We were shopping and she was right with me. I was holding her hand. I let go, for one second, to pick up an item and when I turned back she was not there. "Silly girl" I thought as I looked in the clothes rack where she sometimes hides and pops out to "get me". Not there. I called her name a few times.... no answer. "Where is she hiding?" I began weaving my way through the clothes racks methodically searching for my little girl. My heart started to beat faster as I realized she was not hiding. Suddenly the panic hit as I thought, "I am shopping at Babies R Us! She might have been taken!! Don't child predators target stores like this one?!"
At this point I could not breathe. I grabbed the first associate I saw. “I can’t find my child!” I saw my panic reflected in her eyes. She asked me for a description and quickly guided me to the front of the store where I stood shaking. Store associates immediately began combing the aisles. “Guards” were posted at the doors as I tried to figure out how long she had been missing. Five, maybe ten minutes....long enough for her to be in a stranger’s car driving away. Tears were close to springing when suddenly I saw an associate rushing towards me holding the hand of my little girl.
As I embraced her I questioned the associate, “Where was she?!” She had wandered off to find the rocking horse on display in the toy section at the back of the store. I remembered how she had asked if she could ride it and I promised her she could when I was done shopping.
I can’t tell you how relieved I was to know that she was safe while away from my side. However, every time I enter a store a little bit of the panic and terror I experienced come back to me. I think about what could have happened. Babies R Us does not have child safety protocol because abductions may happen they know what to do because it DOES happen. How can I protect my children? Although I try to always know where my children are things happen. As I learned it can happen in a split second. What happens when my children get older and I am not there to protect them?
My Dad is working with a new company who has an answer to this age old question; "How do I keep my kids safe?" Their product is the Amber Alert GPS. It is the smallest most powerful child locator on the market. What is so unique and amazing about this device is that it allows you to locate and track your child from your Cell Phone!!! How cool is that!
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3 comments:
Gosh this made me cry just reading it! I can't imagine anything scarier.
I've experienced the same thing, with Joseph, at the zoo!! The worst 15 min of my life... I'm so glad yours had a happy ending. I'm going to check out that website!
There can't be anything scarier. It hasn't happened to me yet, but with how busy Kyler is, I'm sure it will.
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