Parents Forget 3 Year Old Daughter At Airport...

[emsplace]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_re_mi_ea/odd_israel_home_alone

OK... they managed to remember their duty free items, 18 suitcases and four other children.... but left their 3 year old at the airport. OMG How exactly does this happen? Lord have mercy!
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[Happy Momma]

I can't even imagine.  How do you forget a child?  My mom was always obsessed with counting me and my brothers (there were only 3 of us) and if she couldn't see each of us we didn't go anywhere. I'm the same way now- so it just baffles me how this could happen.

[emsplace]

Heck there were two parents. That means he watches two, she watches three right... lol
How scary!

[Nancy]

What gets me is the airline called them up and asked them if they were missing a child!  They then put the child (3 years old) on a plane with an escort to meet her parents in Paris.  As far as I have heard nothing is being done about it.  That is insane!  She was only a baby...how do you forget your child?  It baffling.

Nancy

[Jane @ Kidzarama]

The grandparents said the parents were each relying on each other, but how could you not be making sure that your 3yo little angel was safely seated and buckled in for take-off?

From the sounds of it, neither of them was watching any of the kids.

But not to notice after 40 minutes on the damn plane? Disgraceful!

[Happy Momma]

That's what bothers me the most- they didn't even know she was missing until someone told them. 

From what I read there may be charges when they return from their vacation?

[Jane @ Kidzarama]

The police certainly want to talk to them.

Poor angel.
There's some therapy waiting to happen.

[Mom2ConnorRyan]

I read this and could not believe it.  How do you forget your 3 year old no matter how many kids you have. I watch Jon and Kate plus eight and they manage to keep up with all of them.  They even go on airplanes.  I could not under no condition forget my 2 year old. 

[emsplace]

it is like people who leave their kids in the car... WHAT? You didn't know they were there? Seriously... I do not get it.
I just don't.

[Mamalaina]

Would you believe this happened not to long ago in a Canadian  airport?  I was totally taken aback.  Although not as much as the more recent shocking traveller news in Canada!  How do these things happen?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355566,00.html

[Jane @ Kidzarama]

Wow, maybe that's why the other family didn't miss their child.

It never occurred to me that they could have been scattered in seats all over the plane. 

And what was the other shocking news that you mentioned?

[Mamalaina]

And what was the other shocking news that you mentioned?

There was a young man stabbed and decapitated by a total stranger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba the other day.   I hope there weren't any kids on the bus to witness that!  It would be horrible enough for an adult never mind a child!

[spatterson]

I, too, was baffled when I first heard the story. I actually blogged about this and the mistakes us parents can make Here.

It's hard to show compassion instead of judgement on something as big as this, but we are all human and fall short. Mistakes happen.. big and small.

[emsplace]

I appreciate what you are saying...  but if there were levels of mistakes.... this is surely the worst kind.
I have never/will never make it. FOR SURE!

[mrsbear0309]

I know mistakes can happen, but a three year old is a little person, how can you forget someone that vulnerable but manage to get all your bags on. I've gone on field trips with my children for school and even with 24, you never leave a man behind, it's constant head counts. Just seems a little extreme.