[blparent] child locators

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi Stephanie.  I bought a child locator when my daughter started walking. 
I've used it a few times, but not as often as I would have liked to because 
the part that goes on the child, which is shaped like a teddy bear, just has 
the kind of a clip you would slide through a belt.  But since my daughter 
doesn't usually wear belts, I haven't found a good way to fasten the locator 
to her clothes.  If you buy one, look for a locator with a better typle of 
clip or pin that you could fasten to a shirt or the top of the baby's pants.

The child locator I bought has two parts.  The teddy bear part goes on the 
child, like I said.  The other part goes on an adult's keychain.  There's a 
button on the keychain part that, when pressed, lets out a very loud beeping 
sounds from the teddy bear.  I've told Sarah that if she ever hears the 
beeper, which we've practiced with a few times, she should look around and 
try to find me, and come straight back to me if she can.  It's a comfort to 
me, also, though, that the beeper noise is so loud that it's bound to grab 
the attention of passersby, just in case the unthinkable is happening, and 
somebody's trying to abduct my baby.  The noise and sudden attention might 
stop something bad from happening.

I bought the Mommy, I'm Here! child locator on amazon.com.  It's an 
inexpensive model, and the only thing I don't like it is the typle of clip 
on the teddy bear.  There are way more expensive models out there.  I think 
I might have paid about thirty dollars.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Stephanie Mitchell" <mumwith2kids at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:34 PM
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Subject: [blparent] child locators

> Anyone used one? What was it like?
> Steph
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