Have you ever been so scared in your life, that you would do anything to get out of that situation? I don’t mean scared like from a horror flick or your favorite fast food place not selling your primo burger anymore. I mean so scared at the thought of the possibility of one of your children being taken…gone…missing…kidnapped. I was scared beyond belief this morning!
I’m sitting at work this morning and I received a call on my cell phone from an “Unknown” caller…so I ignore it because I generally don’t answer those. About 3 minutes go by and then I get a call from my ex-wife. She proceeds to ask me why my oldest daughter is not in school and my heart dropped. I quickly responded letting her know that I dropped her off promptly at 7:45am and why was she asking. The school had called her (they called me first but the number was unknown…odd) and wanted to know if our daughter was out sick today.
Ooohh, my blood was boiling at this point. I hung up the phone and with fury in my eyes, called the school back. I spoke with the secretary and was very urgent in my words. I told her I needed her to go to my daughters room now and check. She came back about 30 seconds later and said “Yep, she’s here. We must have made a mistake on the attendance sheet.” Those 30 seconds felt like hours! It took me all of about 2 nano-seconds to respond with, “You’re sorry?? You’re sorry for giving me a heart attack because you “lost” my daughter!!??” I was trying to be as composed as possible and chose my words carefully but I ended with, “In the future, you need to make sure your facts are straight before you go calling parents and making them crap their pants”.
At this point, I will be researching the costs of microchipping my children so that there is never any question about their whereabouts. I will be writing a very long letter to the Superintendent expressing my very angry concern over this matter. What you don’t know is that this is the SECOND time this has happened. I was able to brush the first time under the rug, but a second time of losing my child is NOT acceptable.
“There will be blood tonight!!”
#1 by Bec on January 12, 2009 - 2:17 pm
How indescribably, irrefutably irresponsible!!!
#2 by Dave Q. on February 28, 2009 - 1:33 pm
Damn dude. Don’t blame you a bit on your reaction. If your kids have cell phones, you may want to look into that new Google Latitude. Lets you track people on their phones.
#3 by 6sandi6 on May 19, 2009 - 12:25 pm
I know EXACTLY how you felt… my heart was in my throat just reading your blog! (When my daughter was just 3 years old I went to pick her up from daycare… after 20 minutes of frantic searching every room there, they found her and another child who had been forgotten out on the playground from 2 HOURS BEFORE, in 104 degree Las Vegas summer, when they took a play break… I have no regrets saying that I got 3 people fired that day! I feel your anger!
#4 by Concerned Parents Alike on August 5, 2010 - 6:33 am
i totally feel your pain however in my case its slightly different.
I was with my sons father for 4 years previous to me giving birth to him. he is eatern european and this is not a racist comment at all as i’m also of a very mixed heritage but i actually found out he was 9 years older than what his i.d had showed, he had 3 different i.d’s and i only found out when i came to register my son with his father.
i was furious that some1 so sick could take me and underage neive girl, sleep with me, have a child with me 4 years later only to find out his real age, if he can lie about this he can lie about anything, as i was saying before he is of a eatern european background where one of the parenst of relatives is known to kidnap their child which i think is disgusting, its been shown on the tv in documentries andt hats my biggest fear. after raising my son alone because his father wished him dead and to go to hell at just 5 weeks old its been a bloody rough few years and am gettin back on track, only for him to turn around and say hes goin to prison but wants my son to stay with him overnight as he is soon going to prison…as i said its been a bloody rough fight to do it all alone as i was a single parent mum at the time, now older and wiser there is no way im gonna risk all my hard work with my son, when hes older he will get an explanation as to y his birth father is no longer around, and he will know he is loved by a very good family and hes now starting really look up to my fiance as a good role model for him who actually takes him on as his own son and does the things that dads should be doing with a young boy teaching him and showing what boys do in life. model trains fishing,etc. i am really looking seriously into gettin my son micro-chipped for safety’s sake until he is 16. does any1 know where i can get this done in the uk? would really appreciate good informative answers, many thanks