lost kids

Reading today about the amount of children who have got lost on our northern beaches over the last few days. The police say they are overstretched looking for children and it is taking them away from other crimes -What a laugh Also the coastguards are also at full stretch looking for children. We has a nation have very few full time Lifeguards and unfortunately in the blink of an eye on a crowded beach it is easy to loose sight of children Do they have this problem on our Southern beaches were our lifeboats are a taxi service for the boat people

"on a crowded beach it is easy to loose sight of children"

They should be kept on a "tight" rein !

I used to get lost every time I went to Blackpool in the 60s I'm sure my mam and dad did it on purpose so they could go for a pint, It seem hours before they came to collect me in that lost children van.

I remember the Blackpool trips from Hindley labour club.We all had a piece of cardboard pinned to our jumpers with the labour club name on.I wouldn't care but i was 21 at the time.

sonlyme,I once got lost in Bridge St and was taken home in a police car.

If parents kept a closer eye on and supervising their kids closely, especially in busy places, they wouldn't get lost. It must be traumatic for children, more so little ones, when they turn round and find mummy and daddy not there anymore, for one reason or another.

My little brother and I were with mum and dad in Barmouth when I was around 4 years old, brother slightly younger, and we wanted to go to the edge of the sea, so we scraped lines with our spades from where they were sitting at a sand dune. Time means nothing to children but, when we decided to go back, we followed somebody else's spade tracks and came face to face with another mum and dad.

Remembering what dad had told us, we ran to the highest sand dune we could find and waited for him to come and find us. Boy we were relieved when we saw him coming up the hill.

Eeeee Barmouth...spent many a happy year in my early days at Barmouth..B+B's then caravanning at Huey's and Tal-y-Bont where I got sunstroke....Panorama walk...Eeee it's all coming back Mollie

My son, aged about four became separated from me in Asda. A member of staff took him to the enquiries desk where his name was called out over the public address and I picked him up. After that he deliberately got lost just to hear his name being broad cast. Took some time to persuade him he was very naughty.

Anne, I suppose kids can't be watched every second and they do tend to wander. I must have done the same as a child but I can't remember it.

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Eeeee Barmouth...spent many a happy year in my early days at Barmouth..B+B's then caravanning at Huey's and Tal-y-Bont where I got sunstroke....Panorama walk...Eeee it's all coming back Mollie

Glad to have brought back a happy memory for you.

Once took the grand kids to Blackpool Zoo and there is a play area in the zoo. And I was sat on a bench while they played and at times I lost sight of them only for a second or two . When there are two of them and they head off onto play equipment in different directions you can loose sight of one of them and that is all it takes if they don't know where you are I could imagine it being a night mare on a beach with no reference point but sand and thousands of people in swimwear or shirtless

" you can loose sight of one of them and that is all it takes if they don't know where you are"

Your surveillance was slack. Peter!

Most kids these days have a mobile phone, and don't go anywhere without one.