My Child ID is easy to use - and is a must-have for every parent
Calling all parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and other family members! Make sure the children in your family have a profile on a My Child ID product. We all collect baby books, scrap books and journals to mark the growth and accomplishments of our kids. As adults, we buy home insurance, renter's insurance, car insurance, life insurance, basically all types of insurance to protect ourselves if or when something goes wrong. I can honestly say I have more peace of mind because I purchased the "My Child ID" from Amberalert.com to store vital information about my children in case anything happened to them.
Let me give you some background. My Sam will be 3 years old next month. We have a gated backyard fence that is 6 feet high. Sam is a curious and adventureous little boy. He has learned how to open the gate, which has one of those tricky handles that I thought he couldn't figure out. I was wrong. Last weekend, he opened the gate and let himself and our dog out. He proceeded to walk down the driveaway and head down the sidewalk chasing our dog who loved the idea of having freedom. I wasn't home. My 16 year old daughter and husband were - and after a few minutes of unusual quiet, they wondered what Sam was up to. My daughter was the first to notice he was no longer in the backyard. In a panic, she and my husband ran out the front door looking both ways to see if he was out there. He was 2 houses down walking merrily along without a care in the world.
All sorts of "what if's" ran through my mind when my husband reluctantly confessed to me what had happened.
What if - he didn't stay on the sidewalk and ran straight into the street at the same time a car came barreling around the corner (we have a lot of traffic on our street).
What if - some unscrupulous individual happened to be driving by and saw that no one was out there with this toddler and scooped him up into their vehicle and drove away.
What if - he made it further down the street to the main road - and was aimlessly walking around trying to find grandma's house 2 blocks away? He doesn't know his phone # or address. He knows he's Sammy Harrison. How long would it have taken for us to find out someone was trying to track down where he lived?
And the what if's went on and on. That threw me into overdrive We are moving the gate handle up higher so he can no longer let himself out of the backyard.
I purchased My Child ID from Amberalert.com because I thought - What if I didn't have information handy to turn over to the authorities so they could put out a bulletin and Amber Alert?
The product arrived yesterday and I immediatey opened it and started the installation and loading of my 2 kid's information. I'm embarassed to say that it was hard to find a recent photo that was a close-up of their face. How horrible is that? I have a ton of pictures - but they are playing, sledding, running around in the backyard, goofing around with friends, posing with other family members, etc. Lots of those. Not a lot of close-up's that show the tiny scar on my daughter's cheek that she's had since she was 2. Or a close-up of Sammy's face so you could see he has sparkly blue eyes. I was mortified. I immediately started taking close-up shots last night when Sam got home from daycare. I thought I was the worst mother in the world.
In addition, I had no clue what their blood type is. Do you know your kid's blood type? I had to look in Sam's baby book. He's A+ and I'm O+ - I forgot that. I don't know my daughter's blood type so now I'll have to get that from her doctor.
I have to say I spent an hour scrounging around for information as I was putting each child's profile together. Imagine how much longer that would take when you're hysterical because your child is missing!
Don't wait another day. Order My Child ID from Amberalert.com and get $5 off with promo code MOM2B.
Hopefully you will never have to use it. But just like all the insurance policies we all purchase, it's there in case we need it.
Be safe.
