ITA..So many questions like how did she keep her cell phone charged? There is no electricity there.
Praying for this sweet little boy to be found
A.) Car charger
B.) Power inverter which allows you to plug a wall charger into the car.
C.) Just turn your phone off and only use it for emergencies.
D.) Have a key chain clock so you don't have to use your cell phone as a clock.
To be honest depending on how kids are raised can vary how they act in different settings. Where my son who is substantially older would not think of leaving a tent, another child may feel comfortable to do so and wander. So I am not willing to judge yet.
I was on this search in a civilian capacity and could never understand what he was doing out there all alone, but the little guy did it all the time allegedly, so I guess its all in how a child is raised.
http://www.lifewhile.com/news/4819921/detail.html
Just because a kid "does it all the time" doesn't mean it's a good idea...
However at 2 years old there are kids that are just simply fearless. My older daughter has a sense of self preservation. My youngest (the typical one) absolutely does not. We put chain locks on the doors before she turned two.
She ran outside in the middle of winter with no socks OR shoes on when she was 2. Through the snow and ice, towards the horses. I broke 4 ribs falling while chasing her. She didn't even notice it was cold, but fortunately my falling stunned her long enough for me to get to her.
There were 2 other incidents in the rain and dark before that, both in just diapers. Only the rain (the first one) was she actually "lost" for a half an hour and that was when the chain locks went up. Neither phased her, although she still remembers MY being hysterical about her being lost. It still happened 2 more times though.
She absolutely would have left a tent in the middle of the night at 2 years old, barefoot, in a diaper...no doubt. The difference being, we wouldn't have been there and if we had been she would have literally been hooked to me in some way. Our family reunions are weekend camping trips. We go up for the day, come home in the evening... don't stay the night. We drove an extra 4 hours to another hotel at 10pm because the one we reserved did not have a lock higher than the door knob.
This and all of the other cases, are precisely why.
