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Wow Elizabeth that actually must have been quite frightening when you realized you had forgotten her!.
One of my kids once wandered off while she was a toddler at a busy outdoor flea market. It took my husband and I about 20-30 minutes before we found her and I’ll never forget the panic I felt. Both my husband and I were distracted looking at stuff and thinking the other had her with them.But I assume that can happen to anyone, not just those who are ADD.
I do suppose the ADD predisposes us to doing that sort of thing when engaged in something, in a hurry or stressed.
My kids are in their late teens now but still accuse me of wandering off in grocery stores!
Recently I was under deadline to complete a project for a volunteer organization and was rushing to deliver some items one evening. One of my daughters was at a friends home working on a school project but I instructed her to be ready at a specific time to be picked up so I could be on time for my meeting. I made a point that I shouldn’t be kept waiting and she should be ready to get in the car when I arrived to pick her up.
Well…as usual, I got so wrapped up in what I was doing that I completely forgot to pick her up until she called me 2 minutes before I was about to leave for my meeting!
At her age it isn’t as big a deal as it might have been if she had been younger, but I felt really silly. It was dinner time for the family at whose house she was and it was probably a tad inconvenient for her to be there.
Luckily my husband was able to pick her up on his way home from work.Two hours late mind you but something I should have planned for in the first place.
Once again the old adage holds true: fail to plan and you plan to fail!
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