Do you have back-up plans in place for if things go pear-shaped – especially when you’re out and about with kids?

It’s not something I’ve really sat down and thought about. But it turns out I should probably be making some plans, and sharing those plans with the kids as they get older – especially as we head to more public places where there’s greater potential for things to go wrong.

On Reddit’s r/Parenting thread, a parent asked the internet masses: “What are contingency plans you train your kids for?”, before sharing three of their own.

One plan they have in place is that if they get on public transport and the rest of the family doesn’t (for whatever reason) their child is told to get off immediately at the next stop, walk to the nearest wall, and wait.

Another is that if they get lost, they go back and wait at the last place they were all sitting or standing together. “This stops the constant moving and searching which causes more chaos,” noted the parent.

Their other contingency is if their child comes home from school and, unexpectedly, no one is home, they are........

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