Modern Parenting

Israeli parents forget daughter at airport

JERUSALEM - Israeli airport police say a couple going on a European vacation remembered to bring their duty-free shopping and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport.

The couple and their five children were late for a flight to Paris Sunday and made a mad dash to the gate. In the confusion, their daughter got lost. A policeman found her wandering around the terminal, crying for her mother.

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Oddly enough this happened on my flight home. We were taxiing to the runway in Seattle and this man behind me shouted "WAIT A MINUTE!" The stewardess was on the way to being strapped in and turned, but kept walking: "Sir, I don't know what you're looking for." "MY DAUGHTER! DID SHE GET ON THIS FLIGHT! SHE'S ONLY SEVEN!"

Mortified, his daughter looked back from the front row and waved.

You know, I don't know a lot about raising kids, but maybe this is something to think about before you hit the tarmac.