April Fool's Day... in a very BAD way!!

I had one of the kids walk off today! I was bending down for one minute folding up some of his jumpers (that he has a propensity to lose daily) and when I looked up he was gone! His older brother and I looked all over the place for him and I was just on the verge of panicking when his teacher walked up to me with him by the hand and said that a parent had found him walking and taken him back to the office!

I was so angry! Turned out that he had walked out of the school gates and was walking on the street outside the school, when a parent found him and took him back to the school! When I think of what might of happened to him, I was equally angry and shit scared! The possibilities are virtually endless for the things that could have been done to him and also to us by default.

The boy had been sat in the naughty corner since he got in from school (about 30 minutes) and all of the talking at him was doing no good at all, so as he just left the corner I shouted at him as he only seems to remember warnings and things when you make him cry! (I hated doing it, but I cannot have him walking off again in the future and he's one of those kids that only seem to recall what you tell them if they get upset at the same time).

I'd rather the kid fear me and do as I say than think of me as a pushover and never do as I say (sounds harsh, but there we go!)