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Caught on Video: Mom Accidentally Takes Another Mom's Toddler While at Store

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Imagine mistaking someone else’s kid for your own!

You’d have to first imagine the highly unlikely scenario where both children were wearing identical coats and hats.

And then you’d have to mix in some busy “mom brain” as both of you shopped for groceries.

Combine all that with a smidgen of wandering little girl and what gets caught on camera is one case of mistaken toddler identity.

While the story first caught the attention of TikTok viewers in 2020, it’s still bringing a chuckle to weary and overtasked parents everywhere. Hopefully, it’s also making them check twice that the child in their arms is theirs!

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WAPL called it a case of “accidental kidnapping” when a mom was out grocery shopping, holding a child she thought was her own until “another mom ran up and claimed that particular child as her own.”

“As it turns out the girls were around the same age, and were wearing identical pink coats and hats. An innocent mistake in the hurried/frantic life that is sometimes parenthood.”

In the store’s video footage, we see the mistaken mom calmly waiting in the check out line while another mother, smiling, removes the child from her arms.

That’s when the mistaken mother, “likely experiencing a mixture of horror at nearly kidnapping someone’s child and terror at not knowing where her own child was” began to search for her child, according to In the Know.

The smiling mother, now holding the correct child, led the mistaken mother to an aisle where her toddler stood alone. With both children now in the arms of the right moms, everyone was able to have a chuckle and breathe a sigh of relief.

TikTok viewers shared stories of similar confusion they’d experienced and expressed a lot of compassion for the mistaken mother, as well as happiness that everyone handled it with such grace.

“‘Holy moly! Exact same outfit down to the black and white shoes!’ gasped one user.”

“‘I’m convinced there’s a certain age where all kids just look the exact same, and no one knows if the kid is theirs or not,’ joked another user.”

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Still, it’s a great reminder to weary parents as snowsuit and winter coat season approaches to “check under that hood” to be sure you’re carrying home the same toddler you brought to the store with you!

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Lori Stanley Roeleveld is a writer, speaker, Christian coach and disturber of hobbits who enjoys making comfortable Christians late for dinner. She’s authored five books with a sixth on the way. Though she has degrees in Psychology and Biblical Studies, Lori learned the most from studying her Bible in life’s trenches. Rhode Islander. Wife, mom, grandmom, retired homeschool parent, part-time giant-slayer. Visit her at www.loriroeleveld.com.
Lori Stanley Roeleveld is a writer, speaker, Christian coach and disturber of hobbits who enjoys making comfortable Christians late for dinner. She’s authored five books with a sixth on the way. Though she has degrees in Psychology and Biblical Studies, Lori learned the most from studying her Bible in life’s trenches. Rhode Islander. Wife, mom, grandmom, retired homeschool parent, part-time giant-slayer. Visit her at www.loriroeleveld.com.




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