Lauren dropped her daughter off at a birthday party, thinking she’d have the time of her life. Only when she returned, she found a heartbreaking opposite.
“I literally feel like the worst mom ever,” she shared.
“I took my daughter to a birthday party, and I asked them, ‘Is it okay if I do a drop off and run an errand and I’ll be back?’ and she said, ‘Absolutely, you can definitely leave them here.’”
“My daughter was alone”
The mother checked the end time of the party. The party parent said they would be finished at 5 pm.
So Lauren left her daughter to enjoy the party at the roller rink and returned at 4:30 pm to pick her up.
“Nobody was there. My daughter was alone,” Lauren revealed on TikTok.
The party room had been locked, the lights turned off, and the party mother had vanished. She asked her daughter where everybody was.
“She said everybody had left. I was like ‘What do you mean everybody had left?’ She said ‘they’re gone’ and my baby was there alone,” the mother explained.
“I trusted this other mom”
The young girl was lucky enough that there had been a friend there who wasn’t associated with the party. It just so happened that she’d been there at the right place, at the right time.
Lauren decided to try and find some answers.
“I called this mom eight times and she did not answer my phone call. She didn’t answer my text messages or anything so I talked to the manager and I said ‘what time did they leave?’ and they said they left an hour before that,” she recounted.
The party parent had left an hour and a half earlier than she had told Lauren.
Matters only got worse.
“I asked Ashton, I said ‘did you eat?’ She said no. Because they didn’t announce for food, they didn’t announce for cake and they did not announce for presents,” she explained.
It’s left Lauren feeling shocked and betrayed.
“Now I feel like the worst mom ever, because I trusted this other mom,” she shared.
The comment section of her video was mixed, but many backed Lauren.
“Dropping off kids at a birthday party is COMPLETELY NORMAL. Leaving before all the kids at the birthday party have been picked up is INSANE!” one commenter wrote.
“Oh party mom KNEW what she did. It wasn’t an accident,” a second said.
A third pointed out: “Red flag for her to be dodging your calls.”
Others were keen to hear if there was another perspective.
“I hope my algorithm takes me to the other mom’s story time so I can hear the complete story lol,” wrote one person.
Another argued: “If you don’t know the parents well enough, you don’t leave your kid.”
“There has to be more to this story… something is not adding up,” a third said.
At the end of the day, Lauren’s story is a reminder that as parents, we trust others with our children’s care and when that trust is broken, it cuts deep.
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