No Child Left Behind?

An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free shopping and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, police said today.

The couple and their five children were late for a charter flight to Paris Sunday and made a mad dash to the gate. In the confusion, their daughter got lost.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a policeman found her wandering in the duty-free area at Ben-Gurion airport, Israel's bustling main international air portal. He said the officer alerted airline staff, but the flight had already taken off.

Rosenfeld said the parents were unaware they had boarded the aircraft with only four children instead of five until they were informed by cabin staff after 40 minutes in the air.

The child, accompanied by an airline staffer, took the next flight to Paris where she was safely reunited with her parents.

Hmmm... This sounds very familiar. It was probably one of the little girl's siblings that noticed that she was missing! We all get so busy and focused on what we are doing we sometimes fail to notice what is really important. For those of us that are forgotten, we recuperate. In fact, we probably spend more time being noticed. For those of us that do the forgetting, we spend the rest of our lives taking another look around us. Always take another look around you.