DCK Never Made It To School

[e.j.]

I need advice on wtd. I dont want this happening again. I dont want to abandon them either but.... the whole thing makes me nervous.

If I were in your situation, I would feel terrible abandoning them but there is no way I would want that kind of responsibility. I would tell them it won't work for me and be done with it.

[mema]

How did this work out? Did you decide to keep the child?

[Blackcat31]

Not to make light of this situaiton but a few years ago, I had this little Kindy boy that was all set to walk to school and back to daycare every day.

The school was only 3 blocks away from me. Mom had been dropping him off at daycare and letting him practice walking to and from daycare every day all of August, talked with him about not talking to strangers, looking both ways before crossing streets and all that stuff so that when school started he would be full prepared to do the walking with ease.

So imagine my pulse rate when the first day of school comes and he walks to school but doesnt make it here afterwards...

I call mom at work, she rushes over, we call the school, the police, neighbors and everyone else we can think of. DCM gets in the car and goes looking for him.

He showed up about 30 minutes later. When I asked him what in the world he was doing (as EVERYONE was freaked out by now)

He said "Shopping." When I said "Shopping????" He says, "Well, I had 50 cents left over from lunch and I saw this garage sale so I stopped and shopped around for a while. I even bought "T" a bear"

"T" was his little brother who was sad that big brother went to school and he didn't get to go.

So in the end, it was all good and it was kind of funny in hindsight that mom and I thought we had covered all our bases but little did we know that we should ahve talked about shopping on the way to school too :: ::