A quick-thinking mom was able to find her lost toddler in a Kmart thanks to a TikTok hack she had seen just a few weeks prior.
A woman in New Zealand recently lost her son in the giant store but was able to locate him because of a potentially life-saving parenting hack she saw on TikTok a few months ago.
“Another friend searched the area he was last seen,” the mom wrote in a Facebook post.
The mother began looking for him by rummaging through clothes racks and running through the aisles. She said it was the “scariest 10 minutes of my life.”
Then she remembered a parenting hack she saw on TikTok by blogger Jess Martini. “If your child goes missing, screw the stares and start calling out their description,” the mother recalled.
“I’m missing a little boy, he’s wearing a yellow shirt and has brown hair. He’s two years old and his name is Nathan!” she called out to the rest of the store while reminding herself not to “break down” in tears.
“You need people to understand you loud and clear,” she said.
This immediately deputized everyone who heard and they began looking for the child. “I turned an aisle and heard ‘He’s here!'” she wrote. “I turned back the way I came and there he was. A man had walked past him after hearing me calling out.”
She immediately thanked the man, and she realized that if she hadn’t called out he may have never known the child was missing. “Nate would have walked past him and he wouldn’t have blinked,” she said.
“To all parents out there, if your child goes missing, do not search in silence or just call out their name,’ Martini says in the video. “Shout out loud and clear. Say they’re missing, give a description and repeat, repeat, repeat!”
“Everyone will be on alert, and if someone is trying to take off with your kid, it will decrease the chances of them getting away,” she added.
Quick-thinking mom finds her lost toddler in a Kmart thanks to TikTok hack – Upworthy https://t.co/7o72nZANTc pic.twitter.com/mEDka0nqNh
— Noah Ross (@drnoahross) January 28, 2021
