ID for children

[robmary]

Thanks everyone for the great ideas. Especially the digital picture one!!!!!!!!!! Excellent. We will do that and make tags and we bought a Child Guard Monitor. They run about $20.00 on most internet sites. One part on the child and you have other part. You set the distance up to 30 ft. If they go out of the range yours will beep. It should arrive this week, I will keep you posted on how it works on the DD.

 

[Panky]

what website did you order it from? could you please post it.

thanks!!

 

[robmary]

We got it from ebay. It arrived today and works well. The part that the child wears has an on off switch and if the child turns it off , your part will beep. The range is 3 to 20 ft. 20 ft is even too much for a 2 year old. One thing is that it the child ears it as a necklace. What looks like a belt clip is too small for anything. We are going to see if there is another way to hook it to something on her.

Hope that helps.

 

[Cuchman]

To solve the ID problem, My family (Wife, DD 4, DS 2.5 and DD 4 months) used large Avery address lables (about 3 x 4 inches) and printed them up on our PC. We stick them under the child's arm, and they stay pretty well. They had the kid's name, the hotel we were staying at, and my cell phone number. My daughter's tag also had big red letters that said "Please don't feed me anything" because she has a servere dairy allergy.
To solve the "what does my kid look like" problem, we all get the same bright colored shirts with a character or picture on them. Assuming that I lose one kid and not all three, I plan to say "he is wearing a shirt just like this one."

We also have these nifty child locators from Fisher Price. You clip one half on the child and the other half on yourself. If they move ouside of a certain range (about 30 ft.) your half starts to beep. There is also a button on the grown-up half which causes the child's half to give off an increasingly louder beep. Finally, the kids half beeps very loudly if it is removed.
They are really neat, but because our kids are so little (6 months littler last trip) they spend most of their time in the strollers and we did not use them much. This next trip (74 days or so!!!!!) we will probably use them more.

BTW, we have current (but not daily) pictures of them also.

 

[Panky]

where did you find the child locators from fisher price? I didn't see them on their web-site.

Thanks!!

 

[Cuchman]

I bought mine on e-bay, and they were much cheaper than the list price. I don't tink I am supposed to post links, but there is an auction for one on ebay now.
I also see one on yahoo shopping. On either site you can search for "child locator" to find them. Mine were about $20, which seems to be the same price I see out there now.
The ones I have use AAA batteries, which they go through fairly quickly (after about two days of use they die.)
The kids like them and we play/learn what they should do when they are beeping. I tell them that means I am looking for them and they yell "Here I am, Daddy!"

 

[EthansMom]

My little guy is 23 mos. and when we went to DisneyLand in Mar. I wanted to "tag" him in case he got separated. I bought some of that cream colored masking tape and placed info tags inside the back of each of my son's t-shirts (right where the manufacturer's tags are). I used a Sharpie (indelible marker) to print the following info.: child's name, hotel name & number, & mom and dad's names and cell number.

This worked well for a kid who can't say his name and won't keep on a bracelet or necklace or other tag.

Just remember to take the tag out before washing the shirts.

EthansMom