Thanks to Ben in Portland
A mother from Ohio says she used a tip she learned from TikTok to find her three-year-old daughter after the little girl walked out of sight in public, and now she’s spreading the word to other parents.
Krista Piper created a video recalling a recent visit to the museum and how she lost sight of one of her two children while supervising the pair in a play area there.
Krista’s daughter, Lily, had been going back and forth between the play area’s various exhibits and she tried searching for her daughter, but she wasn’t having any luck, and that made her worry.
"I started calling her name. Right after I started calling her name, a little light bulb went off in my head that I remembered a TikTok that I had seen probably over a year ago," Piper said. "It was of a mom who had lost her kid in, I believe, a grocery store, and instead of yelling out the kid’s name, she yelled out the description of what her child was wearing, and she was able to find her kid way faster."
Krista said she switched from yelling her daughter’s name to describing the clothing Lily was wearing at the time: a pink Minnie Mouse shirt.
Eventually, a woman in the museum play place spotted Lily and caught Krista’s attention.
Krista said Lily was only missing for a minute or a minute-and-a-half, but it felt like time moved a lot slower.
Krista said, “if you ever lose your child or dog or anything, yell out their description…"Raise your voice."