Getting lost in Jurassic Park!

[Gemini]

On Friday DD2 and I went to Jubilee celebration performance by each class on the field at GS2's school. Afterwards the school had an open afternoon,where children could show their parents around the classrooms or any part of the school. After two years of being banned from any part of the buildings this was lovely for all parties.

GS2 is on a left handed table. There are 6 of them, which works out well. No knocking the right hander next to you when you are working!
I was looking through his work book, where he had written since September about various things. I noticed a story with illustrations and GS said 'That is you on that picture Grandma'.
I was wondering which happy event he had recalled when he said 'and that's me lost in the Jurassic Park playground when I couldn't find you'!!

This did happen and we did find each other. Of all the Florida events to recall in his school book though

[Daisy]

Gem - oh, bless him. That incident must have frightened him at the time and drawing a picture of it is a good way of dealing with the uncertainty he must have felt. Children say it like it is! x

[Gemini]

He had sensibly asked one the the park rangers to help find me! After that we fixed spot for him to find me. It is a big area and with different levels and set up like a jungle so its hard!

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[Daisy]

He's such a sensible boy, Gem. That was the best thing to do, and having a meeting point made sure it didn't happen again. If I remember rightly you said it was very busy, and it's so easy for children to 'disappear' in a crowd. And very scary for the grown-up as well.

[Gemini]

You're right Daisy, it was very busy! As I was in charge of him on my own it was scary for me too.
I couldn't go in and look for him as I wouldn't then be there if he came back, so the best thing was to stay put. We had fixed a meeting place right from the start but fixed a better one after he got lost!

[Daisy]

Gem - I remember losing one of our sons at the Ideal Home Exhibition when he was about 7. He just disappeared as people surged round. In the days before mobile phones with cameras I'd always told them to stand still and shout "Mum" if they got lost. It worked - the crowd parted and there he was! With the GC's I take a photo of them at the start of the outing so if they did get lost staff would know who to look for! It's such a frightening thing to happen for both of you.

[Lizzie48]

I was always losing DS1, I mean always! I was pregnant with DS2, I couldn't speak a word of Dutch and I took him to the market in the village, he was almost 3 years old at the time, he must have got bored as he vanished! There was a canal running through the village at the time so you know where my mind was. I met my MIL and she helped to search, no luck, by this time I did panic, I met a young neighbour, a student, she told me she had seen DS1 sat on our door step waiting for me!!!! He had crossed the bridge, crossed a busy road and at the time even crossed the railway lines, it must have been well over 1km and I run home as fast as my 8 month bulge would let me!

With GC I would put my phone number on their hands or in their pockets, they never needed to use it though.

Then again DIL took GD2 to the shops, she could hide and keep really quiet, she used to do it here, she did it in a shop and DIL was at her wits end, everyone helped to search and GD2 was hiding between clothing!

[Nanto2girls]

Gem, at least he used his common sense. Bless him.

[Oma]

Very clever boy getting help ,
Its scary though isn’t it ,
GS 1 if in the supermarket would climb on a shelf and hide behind the loo rolls ,
of course after the first time DD knew where he was but the first time he did it she was hysterical .
I remember when my DS went missing in the street he was about 5 it was lunch time , he would have lunch then spend a little time with his friend next door till school time ,
This day I watched him go in then when I went for him for school my neighbour said he hadn’t knocked ,
We we’re frantic , calling his name running up and down the street , just about to phone the police when he popped his head out of the door two doors up , he had changed his mind and gone to their house instead .

I didn’t know if I should spank him for doing that or hug him , I felt so sick .

[Gemini]

It's the worst feeling in the world when they go missing isn't it?

Once when GD was about 4 I was at a playpark with my friends and their GD, who is 2 years older than mine. We 3 adults had found a bench in full view of the children for a quick cuppa. One minute I could see GD and next I couldn't! Two of us split up to look for her and the other stayed put.
I saw her with a lady, looking for me. She had stayed calm and told the lady she was with her Grandma who had dark hair and a bag with cats on it. I didn't actually have a cat bag with me but it was a good guess!
It was probably only a couple of minutes but it felt like for ever!

[Nanto2girls]

When this happens,its a heart stopping time.

[Daisy]

Gem - the story about your GD reminds me of my GS1 going missing in a busy shopping area when he was about 3. He was with his mum and other granny and just vanished. They were frantic and searched out towards the exit of the pedestrianised area. And there he was at the stand selling sweets by the entrance. He'd told the lady there his full name and added that he was gluten-free! The sweets were clearly a good enough incentive not to go any further!

[Gemini]

Clever boy Daisy!

[Daisy]

Gem - I think he was in the process of negotiating with the lady about which sweets would best console him in his hour of need!

[WeeGranny]

We were at the beach in Holland with another couple and their children who were a bit older than ours. The children went off exploring but only three of them came back. DS was nowhere to be seen. It was a large beach and busy and the other children couldn't remember where they'd last seen him. We were still trying to decide what best to do when he appeared holding hands with a Swedish couple as if he hadn't a care in the world. Still gives me the shivers to think what might have happened. Needless to say we didn't go to the beach with that family again. I was quite impressed that he knew where we were as he could only have been just over three when it happened.