have you ever lost your kid on the ship?

[tiffytutu99]

Okay, I guess I should have explained myself a little better. This has nothing to do with the teenagers watching the kids. They've babysitted the kids many, many times but here is how it went down:

 

My hubby was going into one room with the 4yo. I was going into the next room with the two teenagers. Before doors were closed 6yo told hubby he was going with mommy. Hubby assumed that meant he was going into the next room with me. 6yo thought mommy had somehow magically ran back up to the ping pong tables without everyone else and decided to go after me. Hubby continued to walk right into room expecting that 6yo was following the girls and I into next room but I thought 6yo was in room next door with hubby not hearing 6yo say this. What does that have to do with the teenagers??? Thank God they found them! When I booked the room I booked it with the little ones in my room and the agent suggested I put all the kids in the next room and said it was not against the rules. And knowing that, I said okay, because I knew they were capable of waking in the middle of the night if they needed something as they've done it before.

 

So flame me all you want, I'm sure it makes ya feel real good...:rolleyes: Yes, it was the parents fault for losing him, it always is, because even good parents make mistakes... and I DID have every right to be pissed off at the pursers desk for how they handled it because kids DO get lost and they need to DEAL WITH IT PROMPTLY... to make a comment otherwise is just dense. sorry....................:cool:

[babyher]

Never lost one of mine on a cruise either , but when he was little, my youngest had to be gluded to you or he would wander off and get lost faster than the blink of an eye.

 

He is 15 now

 

When he was about 3 , him and DW were in a department store DS is standing right by her at the cashier. She looks away a second to sign the receipt for her purchase, looks down and he is gone.

 

She looks all around the counter, behind the counter, all around the department . Soon she is frantically screaming throughout the store . A few salespeople and secutity are now helping her look. everyone walking around yelling his name.

 

Suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she sees him in one of those round clothes racks, in between the clothes watching all of this with a big grin on his face.

 

Fright turns into anger. As she is walking toward him she is saying to herself "Don't hit him , there are witnesses " :)

 

She takes his hand, thanks everyone for helping her, and apologizes.

 

As they are leaveing the store she hears a woman say "I would kill my kid if he did that, just sit there and watch everyone go crazy".

 

My wife said she gave her a "thumbs up'" sign and walked out.

[tess2cruz]

Never lost one of mine on a cruise either , but when he was little, my youngest had to be gluded to you or he would wander off and get lost faster than the blink of an eye.

 

He is 15 now

 

When he was about 3 , him and DW were in a department store DS is standing right by her at the cashier. She looks away a second to sign the receipt for her purchase, looks down and he is gone.

 

She looks all around the counter, behind the counter, all around the department . Soon she is frantically screaming throughout the store . A few salespeople and secutity are now helping her look. everyone walking around yelling his name.

 

Suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she sees him in one of those round clothes racks, in between the clothes watching all of this with a big grin on his face.

 

Fright turns into anger. As she is walking toward him she is saying to herself "Don't hit him , there are witnesses " :)

 

She takes his hand, thanks everyone for helping her, and apologizes.

 

As they are leaveing the store she hears a woman say "I would kill my kid if he did that, just sit there and watch everyone go crazy".

 

My wife said she gave her a "thumbs up'" sign and walked out.

 

So, sorry to giggle, but I had the same experience, except it was my TWO boys 3 & 4!! I couldn't find them until they decided to scare another customer looking through the racks!! OMG so embarrassed. They are now 29 & 28, they survived the swat on the bottoms they got there in the store just fine:D

If anyone had ever kidnapped those two together, they would have paid me to take them back.:rolleyes:

[lcantwait]

Yes, we lost our 16 year old on our first cruise. DH and I assumed he was old enough to explore on his own only requirement ws to check in at the cabin every few hours leave a note with the time and what his plan was for the next few hours. Well at 1am when we returned to cabin for the night the last note was from just after dinner, ok he'll be back soon. By 2am still no sign of him so DH and I venture out to find him. Lido deck, basketball court, gym, arcadce, no where to be found!! I started to panic we head back to cabin to see if he had shown up, still not there... Got ready to call for help finding him, when the cabin door opened and DS strolled in like nothing was wrong!!! Glad he was fine, so I could beat him!!:eek: I had notes every 2 hours without fail for the remainder of the cruise!

[bleuiz]

When my kids were little, I left them at home and only cruised with DH because I didn't want to have to spend the entire cruise keeping an eye on them. But, now that they are Sr. high school and college age, I just ask that they are considerate and not wake me up when they come in late. They definately stay out until 2a.m. It's their cruise too.

My son's first cruise with us, he was 17.............first rule..........no matter what time you come back to the cabin, you must get up in time for the excursion (particularly because he picked them)

The second rule...........you are not going into port with kids we don't know.....you are going with us (of course as soon as we got into Cozumel, he started whining, "Can't I go with so and so?"

Rules applied for his 2nd cruise (age 18)

On his 3rd cruise, he was 22 and with his girlfriend...........the only rule was that he and g/f were to join us for dinner (it was my parents anniversary and there were 15 of us there) They actually joined us at the nightclub and shows........

[fairytrails]

My daughter got seperated from her friends and was missing for 50 minutes. I called the desk while others searched and was told they could not page unless I came to the desk. When I arrived they claimed that they could not page her but they called for security. I kinda had a nutty in their face and they still refused to page. On top of that they had litlle to no compation for my situation. One of my group finally found her with a teenager in the group. She had locked herself out of our room and went looking for someone in our large group to help her. She is 13 and I was traveling with 30 of our family anf friends. Does anyone know why they refuse to page her. I know it is anouying to here pages but I heard other passangers paged while onboard.:confused:

[Andoria]

Never lost one of mine on a cruise either , but when he was little, my youngest had to be gluded to you or he would wander off and get lost faster than the blink of an eye.

 

He is 15 now

 

When he was about 3 , him and DW were in a department store DS is standing right by her at the cashier. She looks away a second to sign the receipt for her purchase, looks down and he is gone.

 

She looks all around the counter, behind the counter, all around the department . Soon she is frantically screaming throughout the store . A few salespeople and secutity are now helping her look. everyone walking around yelling his name.

 

Suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she sees him in one of those round clothes racks, in between the clothes watching all of this with a big grin on his face.

 

Fright turns into anger. As she is walking toward him she is saying to herself "Don't hit him , there are witnesses " :)

 

She takes his hand, thanks everyone for helping her, and apologizes.

 

As they are leaveing the store she hears a woman say "I would kill my kid if he did that, just sit there and watch everyone go crazy".

 

My wife said she gave her a "thumbs up'" sign and walked out.

 

 

I don't believe in hitting children but I have to say something like this would have made me change my parenting philosophy in a heartbeat.

 

 

OP congrats on having kids make it into their teen years before you lost one of your kids. My son used to like wandering off because he enjoyed practicing what to do if he got lost. He'd find a mother, ask her for help and then get me paged over the intercom.

[Safetyal]

We have never lost our kids so far, but we did help search for our cabin neighbors son. Turns out after all of us were running around the ship, except for me. I agreed to stay and watch their kids as well as mine, as it turns out the boy was hiding in the stateroom the whole time. By the look on the mother's face after the relief passed and the anger set in was priceless.

 

Now my wife and I jokingly tell our daughter (teenager) that we are going to ditch her. She is one of those people that when you order a second drink after sipping on the first one for a half an hour, will say "don't you think you have had enough."

[kait17]

My daughter had the wrong room number, and kept trying to go to the "room" but never showed up. Ended up finding her back on lido , minutes before muster drill and sail away.

 

I do believe they page people from a party if someone hasn't returned back to ship yet, but I think the are hesitant with missing people, only because to some it may be an emergency to many others it could just be a convenient way to locate group members. I imagine many people have tried to abuse this by asking to page someone in non-emergency situations, and therefore they may have a policy to say they can't do it. (until they decide that it is an actual emergency)

[Magico]

I am surprised they didn’t move fast to get your message out, make sure you always have a plan of action and talk to your children (grandchildren), in case you get separated for more than 5 minutes. We tried walkie talkies the first cruise and they did not work. So we use sticky notes letting each one know where you will be at (Make sure you have a clock or watch in each room and have them put the time down.) After we dumped the WT we set a meeting place and time. Camp Carnival was the best idea given to me and we had peace of mind knowing she was safe. My granddaughter was 11 at the time and an only child, she was at CC and was not feeling well she told them I would probably be at the casino area dancing and they brought her down and got me. I asked her what if I would not have been there and the Camp Lady said she would have had me paged.

[Safetyal]

I just noticed the date on this thread. I don't think the OP is on CC anymore.

[crusinpsychRN]

My hysband took my 2 1/2 year old and 8 month old to putour luggage inour car at an Embassy Suites in Washington, DC. Returning to the lobby with the dolly thing husband was carrying the 8 mo. old and my 2 1/2 y/o saw an elevator open and got on. She pushed a few buttons and got off and was promptly lost. She was going from door to door knocking looking for us. People would open the door and shut it, not bothering to help or God forbid anything else.

 

After searching each floor for 20 minutes with hotel staff, my husband, myself and my 14 y/o, a tall older man with white hair and an all white tennis outfit brought her to us as we looked on one floor. "Are you looking for her?" We grabbed her up and just held on thanking the man. When we turned around he was no where in sight. I think he must have been an angel.

 

When we travel I always tell my kids not to call me "mom" in a crowd when they are trying to find me. Almost all the women will turn around to that. Instead they call me by my name.