According to Celebrity Baby Blog, judge on America’s Next Top Model, Nigel Barker, is all to familiar with the fright a parent goes through when they can’t find their child. Barker recently spoke with OK magazine and had the following to say about when he thought he lost his son recently:

“I thought I’d lost him and panicked. I literally thought he had drowned. I thought he had gone outside and drowned. Twenty-five minutes doesn’t sound long, except when you’re looking for a 3-year-old, and every minute that went by, you thought something worse had happened.”

Honestly I can’t even begin to imagine the fright I would feel if my child were to go missing. The good news is I can guarantee as long as my son is in my care he will never go missing. I live in Los Angeles and I see so many kids I could EASILY kidnap if I were a weirdo that did things like that. People have to many children, more than they can handle. One time I was driving through Van Nuys to return my boss’s rental car and I saw this woman walking down the street pregnant pushing a shopping cart with 3 kids inside and 3 running around outside the cart. One of the children ran right out into the street and was nearly hit if the person hadn’t slammed on their brakes. Who’s to say someone couldn’t have come up behind her and snatched a couple of kids? What would she have done about it, what could she have done about it in her position?

I take my son to the park often and I never, ever take my eyes off of him even when people talk to me. I have told more people than I can count “I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be rude, I’m listening to you, but I cannot take my eyes off my son.” I think in most cases kidnappings could be avoided if the person in charge of the child was watching the child like a responsible parent/guardian/caretaker should. For as many seconds there are in each day there are an equal amount if not more of psychopaths running around that desire to hurt our innocent children. I’m not letting that happen to my son.

I’m glad Nigel found his son behind his couch

Jordasche Bledsoe