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Tips for minding your kids

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Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to lose your child, to just be walking around out there when suddenly, bam, she's missing? Has it ever actually happened to you? I don't think any of us wants to relive the recent saga of what happened to the McCanns, yet this is the world in which we live. I can't even allow myself to imagine what that horror must feel like. I know now why my mother was so overprotective when I was a kid!

MomLogic feels the same way and has provided us with a list of good ideas to keep in mind. After a recent incident in upstate New York when a little boy went missing--but was then thankfully found--Pattie Fitzgerald of safelyeverafer.com compiled a list of tips we can all use to mind our little ones, whether we're on an out-and-out full-on family vacation or just a quick trip to the store.

Things like having a meeting place in case you get separated is always a good one I remember from my own childhood. I also noted with interest dressing your child in bright colors to make him or her easily identifiable in a crowd as well as the notion of telling a child to find another mom with kids to ask for help should separation occur. Another great and simple idea: make sure your kids know your cell phone number. One would guess at this point many kids actually have phones of their own, which, though annoying at times, could make all the difference.

I noted that the safety precaution my mom had to resort to when I was a kid (because I was a wanderer) is not one there. She had to harness me and clip it to her belt!

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