Want 99% assurance your lost child will be okay? Have him/her run to a lady

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine, you find a scared, cold, lost 4 YO alone on a ski slope.... and you LEAVE them there to go down the mt to tell patrol. I think the reaction you would get would be, 'What the HELL were you thinking to leave a lost little kid alone up there? Why didn't you bring them down with you????"

Personally I'd like to be able to live with myself after a situation like this. Leaving a little kid and hoping they can be found again and will be OK when help gets there is not something I'd want on me.... I'd rather bring them down and take the chance that some accusatory nut job is going to accuse me of being a kidnapper. Ridiculous.

Did you not read the alternative? Yell for ski patrol (or anyone) while you wait up there with the child?

[Anonymous]

If you are a male, your best bet is to leave the kid and tell someone else. Otherwise, you may get arrested for attempting to help the lost child. Think of the incident in Florida. Too bad, too sad that people cannot be good samaritans for fear of crazy parents who should have being paying more attention to their children to prevent a separation.

[Anonymous]

And when your kids grow up having difficulty trusting males, you'll know why...

[Anonymous]

Any woman who doesn't have a healthy dose of skepticism towards men is a fool.

[Anonymous]

Stand on a wooded area of a ski slope and yell? I don't see that as being very promising. - PP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a male, your best bet is to leave the kid and tell someone else. Otherwise, you may get arrested for attempting to help the lost child. Think of the incident in Florida. Too bad, too sad that people cannot be good samaritans for fear of crazy parents who should have being paying more attention to their children to prevent a separation.

Well as a man, that's the risk I'd have to take in order to do the right thing. I'm not going to let the fear of some insane parent stop me from saving a child in distress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any woman who doesn't have a healthy dose of skepticism towards men is a fool.

Any woman who doesn't have a healthy dose of skepticism towards women is a fool. Have you learned nothing from DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any woman who doesn't have a healthy dose of skepticism towards men is a fool.

Any woman who doesn't have a healthy dose of skepticism towards women is a fool. Have you learned nothing from DCUM?

Ah yes, point taken, but I've never had a woman attempt to get one over on me in the same way men have. But I've also never had the romantic/sexual entanglements with women that I have with men, so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a male, your best bet is to leave the kid and tell someone else. Otherwise, you may get arrested for attempting to help the lost child. Think of the incident in Florida. Too bad, too sad that people cannot be good samaritans for fear of crazy parents who should have being paying more attention to their children to prevent a separation.

Well as a man, that's the risk I'd have to take in order to do the right thing. I'm not going to let the fear of some insane parent stop me from saving a child in distress.

I 100% agree. - PP mom

[Anonymous]

Skier here. I completely side with the poster who brought the little child down the mountain to find the ski patrol folks. If it was a well-traveled ski run, then perhaps the right thing to do would be to flag down another skier, ask that person to send the ski patrol, and wait with the child. But, it sounds like it was a desolate run and I think the poster did the right thing by bringing the child to the bottom of the mountain for help. Hats off to you, poster, and sorry it was scarring. Sounds like the mother was either a nut (how DO you lose your child on a ski mountain, by the way??) or had worked herself up into hysterics and took it out on you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have told my child to either look for a mommy or "someone who works there" (if we are talking about a store).

My son and I now play scenarios (if a stranger offers you candy - what do you say?). He was getting really good at saying no. Even if the stranger said mommy is in the car. So then I tried, "if a stranger says he has cake in the car, and asks if you want to go with him to eat it, what do you say?" And my son said "yes." When I told him he shouldn't ever go with a stranger, he said "but he had cake, and I really really like cake, so I'm going with him" Not sure whether to laugh or be scared out of my mind.

PP, how old is your son? Just curious for my own knowledge. I live in Portland, OR (where you may have heard about our seven year old boy who vanished from school here two weeks ago), so talking with my four year old about this subject is top of mind for me right now.

I'm the pp. My son is almost four (a month shy). I don't know if this is the appropriate age, but we started in preperation of a field trip with preschool - going over what he should and shouldn't do if he got separated from the group. I tried to turn it into a game (he loved yelling "NO") and make sure to say lots of things like "it would probably never happen, but ...."

What was truly amazing to me is that his natural instinct was so wrong.

And for all the men posters, I use "mommy" because we are often out and about during the week and majority of people we see are either mommy or female nannies. Plus, my son is at the age where he is less afraid of mommies then other daddies. I'm guessing as he gets older, that will change. I didn't mean to imply that men are evil and women are not.

[Anonymous]

I am flabbergasted at the criticism of the skier who helped the 4 yr old. Sounds like he was up there a bit helping the kid before taking him down the mountain. How long was he expected to wait for ski patrol? Would the pp's be as critical if the same actions had been taken by a female skier?

[Anonymous]

I love how posters have created a skier "sub-thread."

[Anonymous]

I think it's a sound idea. As a mom, I'd be happy to help a lost kid find his/her mom. I would have helped as a childless person, too, but I get that the kid makes me somehow more trustworthy for these purposes.