Saturday, April 06, 2024

'Little girl, pink shirt, pink Minnie Mouse shirt!'

An Ohio mother says she had quick thought while hunting for her lost 3-year-old who got lost in a store. Don't yell her name, yell the lost child's description.

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... An Ohio mom who experienced the scariest day of her life after losing her daughter in a crowd has an important message to share with parents planning to venture out this spring and summer.

Krista Piper Grundey, 36, and her two kids were hanging out in the play space of a museum they frequent in March of last year when her 3-year-old daughter, Lily, went missing, she confirmed with USA TODAY Friday.

"I started calling her name," Grundey shares in a video that now has nearly 700k views. "Right after I started calling her name a little light bulb went off in my head."

Grundey remembered a TikTok she had seen a year or more prior to the incident of a mother who had lost her child in a grocery store.

"Instead of yelling out the kid's name, she yelled out the description of what her child was wearing, and she was able to find her kid way faster," Grundey shared.

So, Grundey began calling out her daughter's description right away. "Little girl, pink shirt, pink Minnie Mouse shirt," she screamed out into the crowd.

Soon she began to hear other moms repeating her daughter's description, joining the effort to locate her little girl. "Thank, God," she Grundey said of the moment she felt she had an army behind her.

Finally, a mom screamed, "Little girl, pink shirt, Minnie Mouse," pointing to Grundey's daughter. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-06 08:03 PM

Kevin!

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-04-06 08:26 PM

"gender nonspecific, loose flannel shirt and jeans, no pronouns please!"

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-04-06 10:02 PM

"gender nonspecific, loose flannel shirt and jeans, no pronouns please!"

Brown haired 5 year old child, blue flannel shirt and jeans. Red sneakers.

#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-04-06 10:07 PM

@#3 ... "gender nonspecific, loose flannel shirt and jeans, no pronouns please!" ...

I notice the quotation marks.

What, specifically, are you quoting?

thx.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-06 10:12 PM

4.

Well, there you go.

But the crowd's first question to themselves would yet be, "Is this child a boy or a girl?" Unfortunate, maybe. Yet if trans 5-year-olds (!) become a significant cohort, perhaps "gender nonspecific" would be the best identifier of all.

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-04-06 10:23 PM

But the crowd's first question to themselves would yet be, "Is this child a boy or a girl?" Unfortunate, maybe. Yet if trans 5-year-olds (!) become a significant cohort, perhaps "gender nonspecific" would be the best identifier of all.
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With young children it is often hard to tell what gender they are except for the clothes they wear and the length/style of their hair.

#7 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-04-06 10:28 PM

Look at the two kids in the photo. If you cut the girl's hair short like her brother's and put her in his clothes, most would think she was a girl. If you let the boy grow his hair long, placed a bow in it and put him in a girl's t-shirt like the one his sister is wearing, you'd think he was a girl.

#8 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-04-06 10:31 PM

Correction: If you cut the girl's hair short like her brother's and put her in his clothes, most would think she was a boy.

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-04-06 10:37 PM

"Pat!"

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-06 11:19 PM

So true, without clothing and hair cues, it is often difficult to distinguish gender of small children. Working in low income communities, children often wear hand-me-downs from different gendered siblings or donations, and longer hair styles on boys have gotten pupular. Something to think about when you compliment a baby in a store. It can be hurtful to the mother as it reminds her that she can't afford new clothes, and misgendering a toddler.....whew!

#11 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2024-04-07 09:20 AM

The important thing is that instead of wailing "My Baby, My Baby!" (a typical reaction) You get people looking around for something specific. Children will OFTEN hide when their names are called in a crowded place. Either because they see it as a game, or they are scared, or they know they will get in trouble. Or all three. I found one who huddle up under a circular clothing rack for hours, and another one ran from his mom in an airport and hunkered down under a table is a bar unbeknownst to the revelers seated there. He wasn't found till they got up to leave and one of them stepped on him and he squeaked.

#12 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2024-04-07 09:38 AM

Pretty good idea but I don't have to worry I keep my kids locked in the basement so I don't lose them.

#13 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2024-04-07 09:46 AM

Better than keeping somebody else's kids locked in your basement.

#14 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2024-04-07 03:20 PM

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