Boy are they going to get it!!

i bet you were scared to death i know i would have been.but no i haaven't had something like that but i thought i had my son when he was around 7 he hide from me at walmarts i got so scared and he wasn't but a few feet from me and he thought it was funny but never did that again.i am glad the boy was at his house i bet he is in trouble but never does something like that again

It's sad to see parents or guardians neglecting their children like that. I hope his parents get into a world of trouble. WE has a similar incident that happened here, a couple took a bunch of small children to the beach, and of course, drinking was involved, the couple decided to use the restroom. and lo and behold, all the children got into trouble in the water, and three of them ended up drowning. I was shocked, but then it was the guardian's fault, and I hope the suffer for this.

One of the complaints I heard was that the guardians blamed the lifeguards, but being a lifeguard at one point in my life is that lifeguards are not babysitters, their sole purpose is watch for any trouble in the water, they are not responsible for watching other people's children. Since the beach is pretty much big and there is a limited amount of lifeguards, they all can't be in cover the beach completely.

These parents and guardians need to learn that it is noe and never will be the lifeguards duty to babysit, they are the only one's responsible for watching their own children. Looked what happened to three of the kids, they drowned! Who's fault was that? Not the lifeguards, but the guardians/parents. Negligence homicide, if the death penalty was legal on Guam, i say give it to them.

I was so paranoid that I never lost my kids but they had a friend whose parents dropped him off for a couple hours and didn't show up till 3 days later! Poor kid was only 7 years old and he cried himself to sleep in my lap the second night, worried that they'd never come back. I was about to call the cops when they showed up--and offered me drugs as a reward for keeping their child! My local child protective services got an anonymous call but it was NEVER acted upon!

On a lighter note I couldn't find my dog, Cookie, one spring day. I looked all over the house and yard, in the locked garage, she was nowhere to be found. I called all over the house and outside then went driving around asking total strangers and showing her picture. I went home in tears and went to put my sweater in the closet--and there she was! She never said a word when she heard me calling, no scratching, no nothing. I always check the closets now before I close them.

Btw, I just read a story that quoted the guy's former partner as saying he split with the dad because he often put the kids in harm's way. The final straw was when Hurricane Ike was attacking the coast and he wanted to take his children with him.

Holy crap thats what happened to the kid? I was wondering. I watched this whole thing unfold u untill the baloon landed and the kids wasn't in it. At that point the speculation that the basket he may have been sitting in, attatched to the baloon, may have fallen off in the beginning of the flight. I became occupied after that so I didn't get to catch up until now.
What I don't get was, was the kid hiding because he thought he was in big trouble for letting his dads baloon float off? Or was it a prank?

Thanks for the update. I just read about that story online but they were searching for the boy at the time the article was written. I'm glad to know the boy is safe... for now, anyway.

Yeah, my youngest son did something that scared the bejesus out of me. He was about 9 years old. A boy in his class had died just a week earlier by playing near a small but fast-moving river near our house. It was little more than a creek, but the water moved so fast that the boy lost his footing and drown. I lectured both of my sons to never play around that area. They were NEVER to go down to the river!

A week after that, my son went to play with a friend of his. When he didn't come home on time, I went looking for him. I finally found him, soaking wet from the waist down. He told me he fell in his friend's swimming pool. I learned very quickly that his friend did not have a swimming pool.

After a bit of prodding, I got the truth out of my son. He had been playing in the exact area where the other boy had drown only a week earlier. I went ballistic! He got such a spanking that I'm sure he still feels it. My husband had to pull me off of him! Of course, right after that, I had to hug him and cry. Just the thought of how close he came to being another statistic really hit home. After the hugging and kissing came the lecture... the LOUD lecture! Then, of course, another hug.

Ah, kids. The joys of motherhood. I'm still trying to figure out what, exactly, they are and my boys are adults now!

I bet those kids will be grounded for life, lol. Boys will be boys. Mine have scared me but nothing as bad as this. I know u would be soo thanful they were alright but u would feel like pinching their heads off, been there many times w/my two sons.

I heard this story on the news, but had not heard that the child was found. It's good to know he is okay.

I have 5 kids, so of course I've had a few scary moments where I thought I'd lost one. We were at the fair one year, which is really huge here in NY. There were 3 adults, me, hubby, and my friend who was visiting, and we were in charge of my 5 kids. Well hubby took the 2 older boys to the bathroom. My daughter said she didn't have to go, so she stayed with me, my friend, and the 2 youngest boys who were still in diapers. My friend and I were chatting, and after a few moments I realized my daughter wasn't with us anymore!!

I stayed calm at first, figuring she'd changed her mind and gone to the bathroom with the boys. But then hubby came out of the building with the 2 boys but no daughter!! That's when I freaked out. So hubby and my friend both ran back into the building to find her. Thankfully it wasn't that hard, she was still near the entrance way, just wandering aimlessly trying to find her dad. We were all freaked out but she had no idea!

Thankfully, my son never did anything like that, or nothing that I ever heard of anyway. When I was little I was the one doing stuff like that to my poor, sainted mother. Half of her grey hairs weren't age-related. I gave them to her. As soon as I turned 3, I thought I was old enough to do things on my own (or so she told me). Once, when she was on the telephone I decided to walk several blocks away to the park to play on the swings. Another time while shopping I snuck away, left the store and went to another store to ride the escalators up and down. Needless to say, I suffered my share of 'huggy spanks'.

They think that it may have been some attempt at a publicity stunt.
But I can't see how they were going to hide the boy for ever, or maybe they were intending on some miraculous survival story.
It's a weird story, starting with the reason for the ballon in the first place.

I saw the news and the police taught it was only a family stunt because they were the one who invented that balloon. I was also focused on the news when it aired and thankfully there was no kid in there