Simple DIY Trick Saved Family From Tragedy During July 4th Fireworks Show

Summer is a fun time for parents and kids alike…though mostly for kids, as it puts extra stress on Mom and Dad.

With all the water parks, street fairs, and carnivals it’s easy to lose your little one in a crowd. That’s what happened to Mike and Sarah Schuester* when they took their little ones to a firework show at their local high school.

Dad was taking one of the twins to the bathroom while Mom was catching up with a neighbor. Sarah held Ginny’s hand tightly as she gossiped with the neighbor about the rumored new kindergarten teacher and the dissatisfaction parents already had with him. In fact, she was so caught up in the gossip, she didn’t realize Ginny had let go, and started wandering after a puppy in the crowd.

“Where’s Ginny,” Mike asked as he came back from the bathroom, unaware of the toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his white Nike New Balance sneakers.

“What?” Sarah said, still hold the hand of the other twin, but looking around for Ginny.

“Ginny,” Sarah said loud enough to be heard over the background din. “Ginny–Ginny, where’d you go?” Sarah’s voice was rising higher and higher in pitch with each reiteration of her first-born’s name, but Ginny and her red dress were nowhere to be seen.

Sarah frantically started rushing through the crowd, looking at all the small frames lingering below her and distracted by event hint of red, though none were Ginny.

Mike and Sarah were in a raging panic when 20 minutes had gone by and they still hadn’t found Ginny. They were practically dragging the twins by their wrists, unaware of the protests the two made. Security was looking for Ginny and nearly everybody in the crowd had felt a ripple pass through the arena that something was wrong.

Sarah doubled back to the food trucks for a third time, wondering if Ginny had wandered this way looking for ice cream or distracted by the flashing lights. Still frantic, she placed a hand on her sweaty head and that’s when she felt her phone vibrating in her back pocket.

“Yes, hello?!” Sarah said to the number she didn’t recognize as relief dawned over her.

“Hi is this Sarah?” a young man’s voice asked.

“Yes–yes, this is she.” she said out of breath with clipped words.

“Hi I uh, I think I found your daughter. She has a message written on her arm that says ‘if lost please call Sarah’ and then this number. I’ve been trying to call for the past twenty minutes, but nobody has been answering.”

Sarah looked down at the twins, seeing the ink written under each of her other two kids’ wrists. In her frantic haste, both she and Mike had completely forgotten the trick they had picked up online. They had written Sarah’s phone number on the wrist of their kids and covered it with a liquid bandaid to keep the ink from smudging.

“Yes, thank you,” Sarah said with relief sweeping through her body. “Where are you? Don’t move, I’ll be there in a minute.”

For Sarah, this trick saved her kid from being lost in a mob and it could help other parents too. To inform others, please SHARE this easy trick and terrifying story with a parent in your life.

*Names have been changed

Simple DIY Trick Saved Family From Tragedy During July 4th Fireworks Show is an article from: LifeDaily