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Zorinth certainly didn't ever run away from me. Nor did other little kids I was looking after from time to time. I used to take some friends of his to the park all the time when they were in playgroup -- 2.5-4, and they used to run and run back, like relay races with me as the slowly moving goal. I never even worried about them running away. Little kids tend to accept things like that as being the way the world is. And when they do that tantrum stuff -- not that he ever did very much -- they want attention, and they know you can't run then they know they need to stay by you for attention. I wonder if there have been studies done on that. I don't know -- there seems to be very little attention paid to the semi-able, the people who have minor mobility problems but who aren't in wheelchairs.