Personal experience In about 1956 this writer, then a small child, was lost in a local busy shopping area of the city. She had carried on walking whilst the others had stopped to look in a shop window. Looking around and realising the pickle she was in the tears soon began to flow. The street was heaving with people who all looked huge of course. A kindly man picked her up, put her on his shoulders and proceeded to walk back down the street, calling out has anyone lost this child. Mum and my brother were already racing toward us looking for me. A happy ending but it could have been so very different. Times change and one way to protect your children is for them to know what they should do in an emergency. Perhaps whilst you formulate your "lost in a shop plan" you could address these too. What sadly happened to one small boy in the UK - The murder of James Bulger.
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Dava Castillo
2/17/2015 03:38:04 am
Great reporting Eileen.
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Eileen
2/17/2015 05:20:10 am
Thanks Dava.
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