Hatzolah Finds 2-Year-Old Child Wandering Streets At 4AM

Platinum Member Joined: Apr 06 2008 Posts: 5151

I wasn't offended I just couldn't figure out what seemed so strange to you.
It sounded like you think mothers are supposed to be watching their kids all night instead of sleeping

The ONLY thing that remains a question is what kind of lock did they have that a 2 year old could work his way out of

I know this Mom, she is often seen sitting outdoors in the warm weather, watching her children. She appears to be a very watchful caring Mom and not laid back at all.
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Diamond Member Joined: Mar 11 2010 Posts: 3170

This story sent chills up my spine. Wow, and I thought I had active children...chasdei Hashem that things turned out well.

The discussion here reminds me of the time 1.5-yr.-old dd pulled out the cotton and removed her (temporary) cast in her crib during the night. A nurse at the orthopedist's office asked me if we don't watch our kids, how did dd get the cast off? I responded that I'm sure she must be a better mother and likely sleeps with her baby in the crib to prevent her from doing mischief. Wink

Just a thought.

When I was a wee one back in the day, my mother put me out in the front yard in a playpen. 30+ years ago, this was a completely safe thing to do in Monsey. She kept the front door open while she was in the house. I tore a hole through the netting, crawled out, crawled down the driveway (which was really downhill), onto the road (a very quiet street), and stopped in middle of the road. A car saw me, and started beeping. It took a good few minutes for my mother to feel/realize that something is up.
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Platinum Member Joined: Aug 17 2011 Posts: 6152

Why not install an additional lock that the child can't reach? I did that when my son could open the regular doornob.

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Here are my few horror stories.

When I was 2, I walked out unnoticed in broad daylight and my mother found me walking with a non-jewish black guy who was looking for our house....

When my son was 12 months he managed to crawl out of the house when one of the kids who had left earlier didn't shut the door and the wind blew it open. I can't begin telling you all the panic and fright we lived through those 30 minutes, only to be told by the nice lady who watched him and waited for us, that he was missing for over an hour!

My brother dropped his 2.5 yr old early one morning to tend his laboring wife in the hospital, and left him playing in our play area. Dear brother did not lock the door! The kid went out of the house looking for the father and was discovered by a neighbor who didn't recognize him because he doesn't live here! Oh the panic until we found him! And we never told his father!
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Dh, at age 3, let the house and walked 3 miles to his fathers store. Stopping once at a gas station to ask directions!! (no idea why they didnt stop him at the gas station.)

I work at the mikvah most nights. I go out the back door and come in that way too. One motzei shabbos my tenants called me there to say dd (age 3?)was in their house. They had come home after being away for shabbos and found her sitting on the front porch-waiting for me to come home. As I go in and out the back door, I would have just come in, locked all doors and gone to bed-never would have occurred to me to check the front porch!

Same dd went missing one day. Was ready to call the police when I found her-sleeping on the bottom shelf of a bookcase that was blocked by a mirror.
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Gold Member Joined: Dec 21 2008 Age: 27 Posts: 1519

These stories are making me shvach, I better stop right here.

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when my son was 2ish we woke up at 7am to the doorbell ringing. a lady was standing at the door with my son. she said he was standing at the corner and when she asked where he lived, he pointed out our house. I was asleep, and he just left. these things happen.
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Silver Member Joined: Jul 31 2008 Posts: 713

I am quite the overprotective parent, however during a move, my 3 year old nephew, my 2 year old daughter and my 2 year old niece suddenly disappeared (The door was watched less closely that day).

I was sure my daughter would be somewhere in the house because of her fear of leaving anywhere without me, however after 2-3 minutes of searching the house I realized that in the house she definitely is not!

I ran up the street, sending my brother the other side, when suddenly I see my nephew without the girls coming down the train-station steps. I freaked, freaked, freaked out. I imagined the 2 girls on the train tracks already.

I ran up the steps and found them at the top of the stairs. When I started chastising them, my 3 year old nephew calmly tells me not to yell at them because he gave them permission and he was watching over them.

I still cry when I think about this story. May G-D keep his eyes on his children...

Executive Member Joined: Oct 04 2009 Posts: 326

There are malachim potecting our children constantly!

My son was 20 months old at time. I never knew he can climb out of crib. One night about 4:30 I heard the door chain, I woke up my husband saying someone is breaking in. We got up to find our 20 month old, he dragged his highchair and a regular chair. got from the chair, to his high chair to the chain. and he figured out how to open the chain! B''H a million times over that I got "woken' up from (Hashem!) it.
I am a little nervous type with these things. Now we lock door with key and take key out. But htis is not either best scenario. ChasVshalom if someone has a fire, they're gonna start looking for the key. We keep it in the same place, on top of fridge. Hashem should just continue to watch over us, bec. if chas vshalom someone has fire these locks are very dangerous that the key is not in the door.

Let's all judge our friends favorably!

Gold Member Joined: Sep 13 2010 Posts: 2264

OMG I cannot handle these stories. they are making me weak with fear.

the only good thing I keep reading is how kind people can be. after what happened in Boro Park this past summer I was getting "evil world syndrome" these stories remind me how kind people are and how they look to protect little children- from that taxi driver, to hatzoloh, to that black man, to the neighbor....

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Silver Member Joined: Nov 07 2010 Age: 33 Posts: 821

we put up a number lock that you need to have to use both of your hands at the same time to get out, the door handel and the number lock dial.