I keep my daughter on a short leash............................no problem here.
OK, good for you. I left a 3 year old with the grandparents for a couple hours and when I got back they were a mess.
Seems the grandparents were on the front lawn watching the boats go up and down the river. Baby was at their side playing with toys when a Duck landed on the shore and baby ran hell fire to see it. Grandparents both jumped up to catch the baby but those little legs go faster then an adults at 60 years old and they had one hell of a time catching baby. These little ones can move on out when they see something they must see and even the parents have a time snagging the little ones.
There are times when I actually put one of the kids on a leash, at big malls and when visiting Museums but this was for the 4 and under children, cannot tell you the amount of nasty comments I got for that.
Tough tittie, I almost never lost one, Had a 2 year old jump out of a stroller and chase a Disney charactor at Disney World, nothing like taking 4 kids to a theme park youngest in a stroller and look down and the stroller is empty. Fortunately Mickey Mouse saw all this and brought her back before I had a heart attack.