08-05-2008, 04:09 AM
Filed under: Preschoolers, In the news, Weird but true
Luggage? Check!
Boarding pass? Check!
Liquids and lotions properly distilled or stowed? Check!
Passports and proper identification at the ready? Check and check!
Duty-free shopping present and accounted for? Check!
All your children boarded and buckled on the plane? Uh-oh.
In frightening repeat of the toddler who was accidentally left behind in a Canadian airport when traveling with his parents and grandparents, a four-year-old was found wandering around a Tel Aviv airport when her family accidentally took off on a Parisian vacation without her. The parents of the girl were apparently overwhelmed because in addition to traveling with five children, they were reportedly wrangling a staggering EIGHTEEN suitcases. Until the pilot informed the family (over the loudspeaker for maximum embarrassment, ouch!) that their child had been left at the airport, they hadn't even noted she was missing.
As the mom of a large-ish family (I have four kids), I can't fathom this happening. Whenever we travel as a group, I'm mentally doing headcounts and miss out on all the people watching due keeping everyone in my clan within eyesight at all times. No one can wanders away from the group (including my husband and I!) without letting an adult know. So far the system has worked and we have never left a man or child behind.
The little forgotten girl was escorted by a flight attendant on the next flight to Paris where she was reunited with her family with the biggest trump card to pull out of her back pocket get her whatever her little heart desires..... for the rest of her entire life. "Remember that time you left me at the airport and I was so scared?"
Police say her parents will be questioned upon their return and may be charged with negligence.
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Posted on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EST at http://www.parentdish.com/2008/08/04/gir...t-airport/
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Luggage? Check!
Boarding pass? Check!
Liquids and lotions properly distilled or stowed? Check!
Passports and proper identification at the ready? Check and check!
Duty-free shopping present and accounted for? Check!
All your children boarded and buckled on the plane? Uh-oh.
In frightening repeat of the toddler who was accidentally left behind in a Canadian airport when traveling with his parents and grandparents, a four-year-old was found wandering around a Tel Aviv airport when her family accidentally took off on a Parisian vacation without her. The parents of the girl were apparently overwhelmed because in addition to traveling with five children, they were reportedly wrangling a staggering EIGHTEEN suitcases. Until the pilot informed the family (over the loudspeaker for maximum embarrassment, ouch!) that their child had been left at the airport, they hadn't even noted she was missing.
As the mom of a large-ish family (I have four kids), I can't fathom this happening. Whenever we travel as a group, I'm mentally doing headcounts and miss out on all the people watching due keeping everyone in my clan within eyesight at all times. No one can wanders away from the group (including my husband and I!) without letting an adult know. So far the system has worked and we have never left a man or child behind.
The little forgotten girl was escorted by a flight attendant on the next flight to Paris where she was reunited with her family with the biggest trump card to pull out of her back pocket get her whatever her little heart desires..... for the rest of her entire life. "Remember that time you left me at the airport and I was so scared?"
Police say her parents will be questioned upon their return and may be charged with negligence.
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Posted on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EST at http://www.parentdish.com/2008/08/04/gir...t-airport/
Comments: http://www.parentdish.com/2008/08/04/gir.../#comments