How do you "mark" your kids?

[danicaw]

We did SafetyTats
They worked out great.

 

[mahend0]

I think it will be too cold when we're there to put a tat where someone will see. Necklace usually ends up under the shirt too, and I know my daughter would be too frightened to remember she's wearing her parents info on her and pull up a sleeve or get out a necklace, etc.

I wish you could rent microchip bracelets at each park for each kid. Can't tell you how much I might pay to rent that security. Why haven't they thought of that...could probably make gobs of money.

 

[vallamen]

I have 2 little guys - almost 4 and almost 2. I ordered these http://cgi.ebay.com/5-New-Toddler-S...m14&_trkparms=72:570|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

I had them put on the bracelets - If I'm lost please call XXX-XXX-XXXX or XXX-XXX-XXXX

Had them back in less than week and they fit my little guys perfectly!

Very pleased - $20 (including shipping) for 5 custom toddler bracelets that have both of our cell phone numbers on it.

 

[MiniGirl]

Don't forget the things to be done before you go!!! When my children were young and we were out shopping or whatever, I would ask them to point to the person they would go to for help if they couldn't find me. I would then ask them to tell me why they chose that person. I could then praise them for a good choice or direct them to someone who would be a better choice and why.

We also have code words for each child. They know they are not to go with anyone, even someone they know, unless this person knows our code word. This is to keep them from going with someone who may say, "Your mom is right over there and asked me to come get you." or something along those lines.

These things are best done before you leave not when the kiddos are overstimulated by everything WDW has to offer.

 

[princess~yo]

Don't forget the things to be done before you go!!! When my children were young and we were out shopping or whatever, I would ask them to point to the person they would go to for help if they couldn't find me. I would then ask them to tell me why they chose that person. I could then praise them for a good choice or direct them to someone who would be a better choice and why.

We also have code words for each child. They know they are not to go with anyone, even someone they know, unless this person knows our code word. This is to keep them from going with someone who may say, "Your mom is right over there and asked me to come get you." or something along those lines.

These things are best done before you leave not when the kiddos are overstimulated by everything WDW has to offer.

Great reminder. I have done the same with my girls.

We took pics of my daughters every morning, we made it a ritual to do it right before we dunked them in the vat of sunscreen. My ID badges for them were dirt cheap - I took the paint chips from home depot, cut a piece of paper the same size and printed out each adult's phone # that was in our group plus put which resort we were staying at. They got laminated and hole-punched and clipped to belt loops or stuck in back pockets. Thank goodness we never had to use them!

If I had super little ones, I would definitely look into the safetyTat - that's a really cool idea.

 

[Momma2dakidz]

I found 2 children on 2 seperate occasions at disney last year. One child was defianet autism and running around watching the busses come and go. I looked all over for his parents, asked everyone. as i was checking the back of his shirt the parents FINALLY came over and ask what i was doing. lol. If he had been wearing a matching shirt i would have known his parents were sitting way over there on the bench with him in eye sight. (dont know why they didnt come over when 2 stranger adults went up to him)

The second happened at the big tree. A family went up and the little boy around 8 years doubled back thinking they werent up there. He started sobbing and all i got out of him was "mom mom mom mom mom mom" He had on an obvious matching shirt so i started passing the word. Missing parents with neon green shirt. within minutes they were located and had NO idea he was missing and stressing! he was old enough to know what to do and had been taught but in that stress and chaos they dont know.

So point of my post...........matching shirts rock!

 

[phins_jazy]

I'm thinking about making bracelets with the girls. I dunno yet though. I'm going to check out that tat place. Thanks!

 

[mnasmom3]

I'm able to get hospital id wristbands. We use those.

 

[starrynyt]

We did dogtags from those kiosk you find out walmart/petsmart. We put them on the heart ones (so they don't look completely like dogtags) and put the tag on a loop that we attach to belt loops or safetly pins to their clothes. I also got key chains from the dollar store with a disney character on it that lights up so my kids were all about having them on. You could also put them on their shoes tieing them to the laces or such.

Also, I have been told by someone to make sure the picture includes their shoes. If, God forbid, they were actually taken their clothes might be easily changed but generally if someone were going to do that they wouldn't have shoes that would fit the kid. And believe that Disney has ways to see everything like that.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

My boys don't wander off, and when they were young enough, I was simply too anal to let them out of my sight. When my wife and I go anywhere with the kids, we each assign ourselves to one of the boys. Now, we took our nephews one year, and they are the same age as my boys, and I was terrified the entire time that we would lose track of one. These sound like great ideas for families with more children than adults...

 

[Lifisgd]

We bought tatoos for our kids and put them on every morning with our cell number. One of our sons is autistic and the tattoo explained that.

 

[momtosam]

Recently at a theme park I saw a person who had put blinking jogging safety lights on her kids. I commented that it was such a smart idea and she said that they had worn them at Disney on a trip when they had a large group of people. It was real easy to find all the members of their party in a crowd.

 

[jngwright]

Disney "Dog" tags on pin lanyards. The boys picked out some fun pins and didn't mind keeping them on because they liked their pins.

Have a great trip

 

[ilandrazdsw]

We mark them with "if found we will accept them back with a ransom paid to us!" We joke that after so long the kidnappers would want to pay us for them.

OK, honestly, we didn't tag our kids (thought about writing the cel # on their bellies, but never did). They were very good about holding hands or staying inthe stroller. If they let go we would say, "lost mommy, lost tita, or lost daddy" until they "found" us by holding our hand.

 

[smidgen21]

Personally I think we should be able to microchip our kids like we do our dogs.

yes! i was joking with DH about this