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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 287200" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>difficult child 3 used to wander as a toddler, but to add to the problems he had no understanding of his name. His receptive language was very limited also. SO you could call him and he wouldn't know to respond. I could be searching for him up and down the street and eventually find him playing under the dining table, screened by the tablecloth. Not hiding from me, just totally unaware.</p><p></p><p>When shopping it was really easy for him to get lost, so we had a wrist band which fastened on with velcro. On the wrist band we wrote his name and our mobile phone number. By this time he was beginning to talk but unless someone asked the right questions in exactly the right way, they wouldn't get any sense out of him. In other words - to find out his name you had to ask, "What is your name?" If you asked, "Who are you?" he wouldn't know to answer.</p><p>We also bought sticky labels, the ones you put on schoolbooks. We had a sheet of these in the car with a felt pen. Whenever we got out of the car anywhere, we wrote out a label (difficult child 3's name and our mobile phone number) and stuck the label on his back (so it wouldn't get fiddled with and lose its sticky).</p><p></p><p>It all bore fruit in 2000 when difficult child 3 was 6 years old. Because we had tickets to go to a couple of Olympics events later in the year, we decided to go to the Royal Easter Show (held at Olympic Park) as a sort of practice run. Now, this is a HUGE event, it gets really crowded. There are thousands of people there, tens of thousands each day. We had seen everything, we had got through the entire day without losing difficult child 3 (we took a lot of precautions, we had a rendezvous point in every building we entered) and as it began to get even more crowded, we decided to head home. It was so crowded that we couldn't hold hands to keep together, people were pushing through everywhere and hand holds were constantly getting broken. We were all walking together heading for the railway station, when husband remembered we had to buy a newspaper. He stopped, we all stopped - except difficult child 3, who kept going a few paces. That's all it took - a few paces, and we lost him. In the biggest, most crowded place in Sydney.</p><p></p><p>It literally was a matter of a second or two, and a couple of paces, but difficult child 3 was gone. It was dark, it was crowded and he was a small boy who would get scared when away from us and also when in crowds. When strsssed he tended to become mute. We retraced our steps but it was no good - the crowd was so thick it was surging here and there, there was an independent crowd 'current' which made it too confusing.</p><p></p><p>Then my mobile phone rang - it could only have been a few minutes. difficult child 3 had stumbled into a lemonade stand and they had rung us. He was upset but being consoled by a big glass of fresh lemonade, they had seen the label on his shirt and rung us.</p><p></p><p>It hadn't been difficult child 3's fault - just one of those things. We thanked the people on the stand and headed for the train as soon as we could find a break in the crowds.</p><p></p><p>I think that was the scariest time we lost him. There have been other times, he does still tend to wander off, but he is very organised these days and will organise a rendezvous (time and place) if we split up. Plus these days he carries his own prepaid mobile phone so we can generally fiind each other.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 287200, member: 1991"] difficult child 3 used to wander as a toddler, but to add to the problems he had no understanding of his name. His receptive language was very limited also. SO you could call him and he wouldn't know to respond. I could be searching for him up and down the street and eventually find him playing under the dining table, screened by the tablecloth. Not hiding from me, just totally unaware. When shopping it was really easy for him to get lost, so we had a wrist band which fastened on with velcro. On the wrist band we wrote his name and our mobile phone number. By this time he was beginning to talk but unless someone asked the right questions in exactly the right way, they wouldn't get any sense out of him. In other words - to find out his name you had to ask, "What is your name?" If you asked, "Who are you?" he wouldn't know to answer. We also bought sticky labels, the ones you put on schoolbooks. We had a sheet of these in the car with a felt pen. Whenever we got out of the car anywhere, we wrote out a label (difficult child 3's name and our mobile phone number) and stuck the label on his back (so it wouldn't get fiddled with and lose its sticky). It all bore fruit in 2000 when difficult child 3 was 6 years old. Because we had tickets to go to a couple of Olympics events later in the year, we decided to go to the Royal Easter Show (held at Olympic Park) as a sort of practice run. Now, this is a HUGE event, it gets really crowded. There are thousands of people there, tens of thousands each day. We had seen everything, we had got through the entire day without losing difficult child 3 (we took a lot of precautions, we had a rendezvous point in every building we entered) and as it began to get even more crowded, we decided to head home. It was so crowded that we couldn't hold hands to keep together, people were pushing through everywhere and hand holds were constantly getting broken. We were all walking together heading for the railway station, when husband remembered we had to buy a newspaper. He stopped, we all stopped - except difficult child 3, who kept going a few paces. That's all it took - a few paces, and we lost him. In the biggest, most crowded place in Sydney. It literally was a matter of a second or two, and a couple of paces, but difficult child 3 was gone. It was dark, it was crowded and he was a small boy who would get scared when away from us and also when in crowds. When strsssed he tended to become mute. We retraced our steps but it was no good - the crowd was so thick it was surging here and there, there was an independent crowd 'current' which made it too confusing. Then my mobile phone rang - it could only have been a few minutes. difficult child 3 had stumbled into a lemonade stand and they had rung us. He was upset but being consoled by a big glass of fresh lemonade, they had seen the label on his shirt and rung us. It hadn't been difficult child 3's fault - just one of those things. We thanked the people on the stand and headed for the train as soon as we could find a break in the crowds. I think that was the scariest time we lost him. There have been other times, he does still tend to wander off, but he is very organised these days and will organise a rendezvous (time and place) if we split up. Plus these days he carries his own prepaid mobile phone so we can generally fiind each other. Marg [/QUOTE]
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