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Let's discuss odds and comfort
Because I can't fathom on what planet you fear child abduction above other risks, especially at a school bus stop.
Are people just unaware of probability, risks, and statistics?
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Re: Let's discuss odds and comfort
I had the same thoughts. My biggest fear about that is potential traffic accidents, or my kid walking into the street. Of course, abduction would be a fear in the back of my mind, but it wouldn't keep me from letting my children play outside.
I really believe that kids need sometime time to play alone without supervision sometimes.
This sounds like a case for Free Range Kids.
Had the world really become so much more dangerous in just one generation? Yes ? in most people?s estimation. But no ? not according to the evidence. Over at the think tank STATS.org, where they examine the way the media use statistics, researchers have found that the number of kids getting abducted by strangers actually holds very steady over the years. In 2006, that number was 115, and 40% of them were killed.
Any kid killed is a horrible tragedy. It makes my stomach plunge to even think about it. But when the numbers are about 50 kids in a country of 300 million, it?s also a very random, rare event. It is far more rare, for instance, than dying from a fall off the bed or other furniture. So should we, for safety?s sake, all start sleeping on the floor?
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p&p had sooooooo much fun this weekend playing in the backyard. Sure my house smelled like stale, sweaty child for the rest of the night but they were happy.
I think it's okay to make decisions that make you feel better. That's what parenting is about. But at some point, I think you have to acknowledge how much that comfort is costing and for what pay off.
The thing that chaps my ass is I know of many parents who won't let their kid walk to the bus stop but they haven't had a meaningful discussion about privacy, personal boundaries, and what to do if someone they know gets a little too familiar with them.
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Isn't it your job as a parent to prepare your kid for adulthood? A 3 minute walk home seems like a pretty safe way to start the independent streak IMO.
Otherwise you just end up competing with your DIL over your mama boy son. Who the hell wants that?
This.
I think that there are some parents who get way too worked up over letting their kid do simple things. We walked home from school as kids, we even played all throughout the neighborhood. We knew that by sundown we had to be home. If we wanted to go to anyone's house we just stopped by & asked mom. That way she knew where we were.
There is a lot of paranoia I think because of the news. While I agree that the cases where kids go missing is tragic, and of course work to find them (Amber Alerts etc.). I believe it makes people really worried for their kids unnecessarily. HAB is right-- the likelihood that your kid is going to be snatched is so low that he/she is more likely to get hit by a car or stung by a bee than snatched by some crazed sexual predator.
NO ONE wants that.