If you could, would you?
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| Thu, 06-21-2007 - 12:25pm |
Hi all!
I would love to know your thoughts on this. If you had the option of having a microchip implanted in your child for locating purposes only, would you do it? You hear about these missing kids, especially the younger ones who wander off and are found so close to home. The boy in Wisconsin, Benjy, was only about a mile from home.
I know me personally, and Nick's tendency to bolt and wander, I would seriously consider it if given the option. I would only want it activated by law enforcement personnel or similar company and it would contain no personal data. It would be a beacon for us to find him. He doenst understand that if he runs in a store that someone could snatch him and I might never see him. I explain until I am blue in the face, but he just doesnt understand. I have found ID anklets that I could have him wear like if we go to the zoo, or cards I could slip into his shoes, but all of that could be taken off. He is also the type of kid that if approached by someone other than a police officer, fireman, etc, possibly a rescuer if he was lost, I dont know if he would go to them. That worries me. I read a stat that 90% of dogs have some sort of ID, but less than 10% of kids have ID at any given point in time. And heck, they will microchip a dog for $75! You would think they could come up with a way to do this for kids. I can think of so man examples where this may have helped bring a child home right away.
What would you do?
Christine


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The problem with this ionkids device is that it only monitors for up to 300 feet! That's less than a block away...it's actually the length of a football field. Probably wouldn't be of too much help for those of us with "bolters". That term, BTW, bothers me. Claire never "bolts"- she wanders off leisurely. LOL
Amy
You know, I was talking to DH last night about Benjy and I mentioned that if I felt I needed to, I would totally Lo-Jack our kids....
I would, in a heart beat have something implanted in them so we could find them if they got lost.
Harrison (2) has a bolting tendency and has also unfortunately figured out how to open the front door and the storm door to get outside. We have a fenced yard, thankfully, so he can't get straight into our busy street, but it still totally freaks me out. Thankfully we also have a dead bolt with a key that I can lock so he can't get out my first defense. And then there's another big heavy door before the storm door in the hallway that he can't open yet.....phew...
He's an awful lot like Sam, in that he gets a huge thrill out of chasing games and so loves to run off in public too. So he's in my arms, holding my hand or in a stroller.....or ends up there because he keeps trying to bolt. Sam was the same at this age, but Harrison is better at actually holding my hand calmly and not dropping to the ground in a passive restistance move while I try not to pull his arm out of the socket.
I worry a little about Sam. He'll sometimes get stuck when we have to leave someplace fun and I simply cannot chase him or he'll just keep running. He's so big that I can't carry him either. I am glad that this doesn't happen very often and he usually can be somehow talked into coming home with us. I'm not sure what I'd do if he refused and I was alone with Harrison....Once when we had to leave school, he wanted to stay and play with a friend and he didn't want to come to the car. I walked away slowly and he got the idea that I wasn't going to give in so he followed and got in the car. I'm not sure how it would have played out if that hadn't worked.
Chrystee
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