A mother of three taught her community how to react if a child goes missing in a public space. His video, posted on Tik Tok, has been viewed over half a million times.
It is the anguish of all parents. Losing sight of your child in a public space causes indescribable panic fear, as if you were taking your breath away and seconds turning into hours. If in the vast majority of cases, we find our child safe and sound a few minutes later, the situation sometimes finds a tragic outcome. But then, what to do when we realize that our child is no longer in our field of vision? In a store, a park, among the crowd, in the street …
Mom of three, Jessica Cakmakli, recently hit the buzz on TikTok. In a short video, she explains how to react if you are faced with this type of event. When asked by Insider, she insisted on the need to communicate this type of advice. "It happens all the time, a child can be distracted in just a few seconds and walk away from you. "
Warn everyone and shout
If you think about what to do in this situation, you think you would probably start by shouting out our child's name and looking around for it. According to Jessica Cakmakli, this is not enough. “Don't start looking for it on your side quietly. You have to do it loudly. What I mean by that is that at the same time you are looking for it, you have to shout its description to the people around you. It should look like this: "I'm looking for a 5 year old boy, short brown hair, brown eyes, Caucasian, red Nike t-shirt, black shorts." Why do this? According to Jessica, this technique works for several reasons.
This will first alert everyone that a child is missing and involve more people in the search, which can help locate the child more quickly. In the worst case, if the child is kidnapped, yelling and involving a group of people in the search will trigger a commotion, which the kidnappers try to avoid.
Very positive feedback
This method sounds good and makes good sense in theory, but what about in practice, does it actually work? This is what dozens of testimonials appear to state in the comments to Jessica's video. "It happened in a department store I was in and it worked! Everyone rushed to look for a small child and he was found very quickly ", writes one user. Another, who made a video referring to Jessica's, explains that this situation happened to her the day before and that thanks to her advice, she was able to find her little boy in 15 seconds.
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If you ever happen to lose sight of your child in a public space (which no one wishes for), remember to warn as many people as possible and to keep shouting their name and location. description. As Jessica recalls so well at the beginning of her video, "Losing sight of your child can happen to the best parents there is" and maybe with this simple method a lot of dramas can be avoided.