Photos of your children

[Cockney_si]

If your child(ren) went missing in a public area would you be able to provide an acurate description of wht they were wearing and what they look like?

Do you keep an up to date photograph of your child(ren) with you or close to hand when you go out?

[nuttymum]

v scary question. stop scaring us. shouldn't think like that. shiver shiver. my son went missing once and we found him beaming underneath a clothes carousel thinking it was all a laugh.

[Psychick]

I think I would be able to give a very good description, I think the only thing that would make it difficult is the sheer panic and terror of the situation.
I used to keep a photo in my purse but found the plastic view bit of the purse was ruining the photos.

[Cockney_si]

The question was not meant to scare people just make people become aware of a potential problem.

My girlfiriend and I were in a packed park a few months ago and we couldn't see what had happened to the little one for a few minutes.

Luckily she wasn't far after all and we had a picture of her on a digital camera to hand.

[yinyang]

Yes and yes - but I'm sure during all the recent child safety debate on here somebody related a story about a child going missing in a shopping centre. He was found with two men in the toilets within a very short period of time but long enough for them to change his clothes and cut his hair thereby making the mum's description useless. Now that is scary!
( apologies to the original poster of that story if I got any of the details wrong)

One of my two disappeared at the zoo in the time it took me to get a sandwich out of the coolbag. She was hiding behind a nearby bush and like nuttymum's little boy thought it was a huge joke and jumped out to surprise us. She was the one who got a surprise though because I immediately burst into tears of relief. x

[mycats]

yinyang that story is an urben legend
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/kidnap. asp

[Cockney_si]

I think any kid that was made to have their hair cut would scream the place down.

Besides, hair may be able to be cut but facial shape cannot.

[joko]

don't schools still take a yearly portrait of your kids?

[Psychick]

They do indeed joko, then charge you an arm an a leg for the privalege of having them!

[smudge]

Scary thought.....

Though many years ago, my then little brother went missing. We had half the neighbours out looking for him & just as Mum went to phone the police, we found him fast asleep under the dining table!

The table cloth was very long!

[yinyang]

Ok, fair enough - somebody posted it on here as a true story and I fell for it.

[bigmamma]

I have almost a minute by minute photographic collection of my son , lol , so my answer to your question is that yes I did . :-) x

[Cockney_si]

Joko, yes most schools do a yearly photo session but I have two photos of myself wone I was younger, one aged 11 one aged 12 and the difference is so great that you'd be hard pressed to guess they were of the same child.

[Paul_Rook]

Yes i could i have been trained by the legal proffesion to be very observant, and i keep a picture but its not all that recent to be honest but my kids dont change that much.

[Cockney_si]

I think you'd be quite surprised Paul_Rook that if you did look at pics or your own children that were taken even 6 months apart the difference is quite remarkable.....some children loose/gain teeth or have longer or shorted hair or different hairstyle or colour of hair goes darker.

Often why men get accused of not noticing if the other half has her hair/nails etc done...lol

[Bohne]

Since my baby is only one, we have loads and loads of photographs.
I don't have them with me, when I go out, though!
I am not paranoid, thank god!
I usually know what he is wearing, since I dress him in the mornings.