Apr. 23, 2008 - Sad, Sad, Sad
I read about this very thing just the other day. Can't remember where. Someone's blog. Anyway, the exact same thing happened to me this afternoon. It's 80 degrees here today. Too beautiful to not go out and play at a new playground we found recently. While there, a sweet little five year old boy latched on to my kids . . . or did my kids latch on to him, hmmm. Anyway, he said he was five years old. He was a tiny five. I asked where his parents were (since there were no obvious adults linked to him) He said, "I dunno. Over the hill somewhere I guess." He played with me and my kids for over an hour. He'd run up to me for help on the swings, a spinny thing, and kept yelling for me to watch what he could do on the monkey bars. Over an hour. No parent in sight. These are the kids that get snatched.
His dad eventually meandered to the top of one of the hills to yell for him it was time to go. I wouldn't have been able to catch up to talk to them if I tried. There are two things about this that makes me sad. One, the parents not only weren't in eye-shot but they weren't even in ear-shot of their son. If anything happened to him, they wouldn't have known it for an hour. Two, the child was attention starved for an adult, any adult to interact with him. I'm thankful we were there for him today, but who will be there for him tomorrow?
Sad, sad, sad.
Comments
Apr. 23, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by JADsmama3
That is so sad...hopefully the parent(s) will get it together before it is too late.
Apr. 23, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by crazybusy
Very sad indeed. I sometimes feel I am the only one that cares to keep an eye on my children in strange places. We had a family reunion the other night and while I would've loved to have been able to hang out with the adults, I was out watching the kids the whole time.
We've got a 5 y/o neighbor that's over here all the time too. I sometimes wonder how they'd like it if I just let my 5 children wander in their yard whenever they pleased.
Well, it's a good thing *you* were there and not some weirdo. I don't get some parents. At all.
alyssa
Apr. 24, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by MayTheyBeMightyMen
*sniff sniff*
How very sad. I think I shall spend some really great time with my kids today. . .
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