ZellyB
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2010
I remember being at Disney and my oldest was around 7 or 8 I think. He, of course, felt he was too old to hold hands and often wanted to wander a bit away from us. Then we ran across a younger child who was lost. This poor little thing was terrified. Sobbing and crying for his mommy. We stayed with him for a second and a CM came along to take charge. My son was so frightened by seeing this experience that he held my hand almost constantly for the rest of the trip. I hated that he'd ended up so scared, but admit it was sort of nice to have my 7/8 year old actually wanting to hold my hand. When we were on a trip to Venice, I worried a lot about my kids getting separated (they were 5, 5 and 9 at the time). We weren't using our cell phones at all on that trip as it was many years ago and the cost of using one overseas was really prohibitive. I ended up pinning a business card for the hotel we were staying at to their clothes each day and told them to seek our a police officer or a woman with children if possibly and ask them to try to help them to get them back to our hotel or to call there. I don't know if that was a good solution or not but it was all I could really think of at the time. Luckily we never lost sight of them during our time there, but just the thought of it horrified me.
I agree with those who have said that it can happen so quickly and to nearly anyone regardless of the precautions you may take. I don't see how anyone can make a judgment about how it must be a cell phone/Genie+/inattentiveness without having seen the full experience happen. I mean, people can make those assumptions of course, but it's really impossible to know what happened if you didn't witness it.
I agree with those who have said that it can happen so quickly and to nearly anyone regardless of the precautions you may take. I don't see how anyone can make a judgment about how it must be a cell phone/Genie+/inattentiveness without having seen the full experience happen. I mean, people can make those assumptions of course, but it's really impossible to know what happened if you didn't witness it.