Agreed. Lost my daughter at the park one time too. It was next to a school and it was lunch so the place was swarming with children, and there were loads of bushes you can hide behind. I saw which direction she went and thought I'd just follow slowly, but seconds later she wasn't there anymore. I started calling for her but my heart just went through the roof. A mother said she saw a little girl run past her, but in the direction I came from (all this still within the park - it's an enclosed playground so large but not that large. It was just I know my daughter was small enough to squeeze through the fence) Found her within a few minutes. I picked her up and cried and cried. Any time I think I've lost her, even for a few seconds, the waterworks come.
@Mckk After working with children ranging from 6 weeks to 12 years old for the last 2.5 years my reflexes are no longer lightning fast because of learning certain cries. Some kids are very good at freezing and I've seen kids do it frequently in relation to insects. I'll personally fish out the wasp or bee (with a straw or something else), but I've dipped into the hippy pool and I have a fear of drowning (entirely illogical because I can swim like a fish) so I can't watch other things drown. I'm the idiot who would probably drown trying to save a rabbit. Anyway, I've seen freezing save lives or prevent further injury so I find it a valid response in relation to flight and fight. Survival mechanisms are an interesting beast.
