LOST AND FOUND BOX: 1 Blond Male Toddler
Take some advice from someone who is NOT a parent...me. If you have a toddler who just learned how to walk, it's probably in your best interest and the interest of the little brat (said with love here), to make sure you keep a sharp eye on him/her when in a public place.
Nothing is worse than seeing a 2 yr old waddle out into a crowded hallway of a mall from a luggage store while her parents are looking at suitcases together and ignoring the fact that they have a child.
It's even more excruciating to see two very old women find the child and return her to the store where the parents look very suprised and understandbly upset.
Now, let me re-interate....I am not a mother. I have never had to worry about looking after anyone but myself and my purse when I go out shopping. Oh and of course Carlos....I mean guys might tend to wander off if something catches their eye like video games, guitars, a gorgeous MILF...ok that last one is totally made up....but still. I would assume, if I was a mother, no matter how frazzled or busy I was, my child would NEVER be out of my sight.
Looking at a suitcase is not worth losing my kid over. Seriously. I know I can have some fucked up priorities, like choosing to shave my pussy before washing my hair depending on how much time I have to get finished. But I would assume a child would be the #1 on my priority list.
These days there is NO excuse to lose your kid. Not only do they have the old fashioned, but very embarrasing "child leashes".....
They also have the newer version of these things....electronic, invisible, kid leashes. If you're like me, you thought, "OMG they're shocking kids like they do poor dogs who have those shock-collars on!". But fear not people. Our society hasn't COMPLETELY lost it's mind....yet.
These electronic ankle bracelets are more like what prisons use for house-arrest. The parent carries the transmitter around and anytime the child gets loose and runs for his/her life past the cutoff point, the bracelet emits a loud and very annoying alarm to let the parent and the world know that there is an escaped kid!!! "LOCK DOWN THE MALL...A VERY DANGEROUS AND ARMED-WITH-CANDY KID HAS ESCAPED!!!!"
And seriously folks....I kid you not...(pun definitly intended).
No matter how parents choose to "herd" their brood....something needs to be done. If I see one more kid wandering around aimlessly looking for their irresponsible parent, I'm gonna scream.
And yes, what they say is very true...."You do your BEST parenting before you become parents."
*Orders a box of wireless kid leashes to prepare myself, just in case I actually become one of those crazy and frazzled aberrations we call "mothers", one day.*
Better safe than sorry!
