Posted on 06/24/2005 9:11:00 PM PDT by TheWriterTX
We can Monday-morning quarterback on the sad loss of three innocent children in Camden, about what the family should have done or where they should have looked. The entire event described above, from introduction to my daughter's safe return, took less than 10 minutes. I dissolved into a senseless mess in just three.
I'm so glad your daughter was safe. Thankfully my children grew up in a 'safer' time and I grew up in an even safer era than that. Things just keep getting worse!
Um...I'm sorry, and I know how stressful losing a child can be.
But calling the cops after five minutes without checking next door to see if the child was there, is HYSTERICAL, and not at all rational.
If people lived their lives like this woman does, the cops would be at their door every time the kid went for a whiz in the bathroom without telling Mom she was going potty.
I'm thinking some kind of GPS-like transmitter sewn into children's clothing as a standard safety device might be a good idea. Mom can just turn on her reciever and see instantly how far away the child is.
We're dealing with this in MN.
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S8961.html?cat=1
Ignore all of the (media) SUV references. Non-factor.
And yes, you are absolutely correct. Minutes do seem like hours...
She had decided it would be funny to hide in my neighbor's open garage and not answer our yelling.
She's a barrel of laughs.
Did ye call the cops?
When my daughter turned 3, there were no less than four (4) kidnappings of young girls in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I lived in the southern mid-cities at the time.
They eventually found the skeletal remains of one of them just about 3 miles from my home a couple of years later. As one might expect, I lived in abject fear of one of my kids becoming a statistic.
Thankfully, and perhaps because my wife and I were diligent in teaching her to be extremely wary of strangers, she's 31 now. However, she has two kids of her own, so that little niggling fear has not subsided.
When you become a parent, you're a parent for life.
Moral of the story: When people read too many milk cartons, and trust too much of the media-generated fears that the media need to sell more milk and other goods, such people turn into irrational fearful hand-wringers looking for the government to save them.
Their plan is working on you.
Congratulations. Your emotions have overridden your reason, and people like you will undoubtedly sell out their (and my) liberty for some perceived safety.
Flame away.
PS:
Your angst-wridden tale is CHAT, not "news"!
If you don't know the difference, lurk for a while.
PPS:
Forgive me for initially thinking you wrote this moronic pap.
You merely posted it.
Thanks.
Years ago my 2 year old daughter drowned in our apartment pool. I rounded a corner and saw her floating silently on a pool so still it looked like glass. I dove in, got her out, and miraculously was able to revive her. She's had no after effects. From the time I spotted her until I revived her the seconds seemed like days. Life really did seem to shift to extremely slow motion.
You did right to panic. Good job.
Flame you?
I want to buy you a drink! :-)
BTW..this piece of crap was written in 2003.
News?
The child is in university by now! ;-)
Thanks.
I needed that.
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