If you want to watch the most mom anxiety-inducing video of the year, mother of three Victoria Elizabeth can help with that.
She experienced a “mom’s worst nightmare” scenario and posted it on TikTok as a warning to other parents.
This mom didn’t look away for a few minutes. It only took seconds for her little one to run off into the street while her back was turned.
She looked away for a total of 35 seconds to attend to her other children.
Victoria and her family were outside in a fenced-in yard with a closed gate. Mom opens the door to let her two children inside.
That’s when the little boy jets off behind her, gets right past the pumpkins and swings the gate door open.
He takes off at toddler speed and makes his way to the driveway next door barefoot in his shirt and diaper.
Mom is at the door with her back turned, a backpack on her back, and trying to get the other kids through the door.
Meanwhile, the little boy is walking in the middle of the road and is heading toward a road where cars are driving by.
Watching this nail-biting video seems like it’s several minutes long, but only a mere 35 seconds go by before mom gets the kids through the door and realizes her third isn’t behind them.
Mom whizzes around and sweeps the yard with her eyes for her son. She spots him and runs toward the gate, dropping the backpack on the way.
She races down the street as fast as she can until she reaches her boy at the end of the road where at least two cars passed by earlier.
“The scariest moment of my life. Grateful he is fine. Kids are so fast!” Victoria said in the caption of her TikTok post.
The whole ordeal was caught on a doorbell camera.
“I just help him and cried. I thought the gate was closed,” she told a fellow TikToker who commented on her post.
Apparently, there were a few people who chimed in to criticize Victoria for turning her back for all of 30+ seconds.
But the parents in the chat weren’t about to let that slide. And they got pretty hilarious about it.
“Most of these parents not watching their kids to criticize a stranger on TikTok too,” wrote one.
Not only can being on your cell phone or social media be dangerously distracting when you’re caring for younger children, but prolonged distracted cell phone habits can also have long-term consequences on children.
According to Today’s Parents, says it can have a negative effect on the child’s ability to control their emotions and pick up non-verbal cues.
Another parent also commented on the TikTok video that all parents have looked away at one time or another and that no one is perfect.
They were intent on making it a no-parent-shaming zone.
The video really is intense to watch. You can check it out below.
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@victoriaelizabeth444The scariest moment of my life. Grateful he is fine. Kids are so fast! 😞♬ Ooh Ahh (My Life Be Like) [feat. Tobymac] – Grits
