at least your daughter waited until she was almost 3 to run away, mine started when she learned how to crawl. i was working in the greenehouse, and she crawled out the the door, down the walk, across the road across my neighbors driveway,and never looked back, and hasent quit yet. she also has her faithfull sidekicks with her, i often yell at her that this isnt the incredable journey, so get back here, {we have 3 small dogs} she would wander off when i was hanging up clothes, we had a highway 50 yards to the front miles of corn fields to the rear, a dirt path that led to a sewer tratment plant some 400 yards away and a small pond on our property. so you can imagine what i went through, thank god my one dog was very smart, i would say find the baby and we found the baby,
she would open the door when i was on the tolet and her and her friends would be out going to the neighbors. now what i did works, but it takes some work,but its worth it.
i cant always be outside, and she is just, well she is just herself, so i took her for a walk along the road and showed her every dead thing out there, and told her that it got killed because it came on the road without its mommy, then over and over we talked about the dead things and how sky could get killed just like them if she came on the road without mommy and that would make mommy sad. we would eat dinner and talk about the dead things on the road, so sky can never go by the road without mommy or she will end up like those poor dead things.
next step, when she wants to be out{she just turned 4} she can go on the pourch, but she must leave the door open, and i tell her she must stay on the patio {thats where all her toys are} and i ask her what did mommy just say,and make her repeat it back to me, i trust her, but to a point, i talk loudly to her while i finish putting the food away, or whatever, sometimes i cant talk to her, so i quickly finnish doing what i am doing but i look out the door, out the window, to see what the heck shes doing,and her faithfull sidekicks, stay where she stays, and now we live in carmichaels with 88 just 50 feet from my patio, we lived here since september and no problems.
i rented a small appt, in rices landing, while her father was in texas, and the river was our back yard, so what was i to do with a 3 year old who loves water, {her bath time every night is 2 hours} and she swims in grandmas pool with no water wings.
so told her that there was a mongahalia momster in that river and if she went down by those trees{There was a line of trees about 25 feet from the water} without her mommy the monster would see her and eat her, but not if she was with mommy cause he is afraid of mommy, and we taked about it all the time etc,, and as you can see, we lived there with her being trusted to play in her sandbox, and ride and her bike, and i could quickly get my stuff done before joining her.
and just put her in her car seat first seat, clip your keys to your belt loop, then put your stuff in the car. when i first started doing this, if she messed up, i just picked her and brought her back in the house and told her how sad sky made me, cause she was almost a dead thing on the street, and i wouldnt have my baby anymore, my girlfriend did this with kid, and it worked, i asked skys dr, and he said whatever it takes to keep them safe, it took about a week, 2 weeks, before it was to the point where i could put food away, and now at four, i can run the sweeper and put dinner on, but you must always check on them, if nothing else, get one of those security camerias and install it, they dont cost that much, and put the moniter where you will be all the time, or you can even hook it up to your computer. but make sure you have a boundry area, the sandbox, pourch, patio, this is wherre i trust you to stay, and you had better stay here. i also dont believe in hitting my kids, i thinks its a total lack of control, and in this crazy world, we dont need to teach violence in our own homes.