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How Are You Protecting Your Kids? |
I don't have kids yet. but I am freaked out by all the stories I read about sick people in neighbourhoods who abuse and kidnap children. How are you parents taking action to protect your kids (15 years and below)? Do you let them play outside (like riding bikes) or only in the back yard? Do you let them go to the mall with friends? Do you run background checks on your neighbours? I am just so concerned but maybe you parents can give some better and more realistic advice. Thanks. I protect them by staying involved with them. I hang out outside when they are outside..I know their friends and their friends parents..I demand to know where they are at all times. I have a nefew and how I protect him is I am a stay at home Aunt. His mother does not want him going to daycares or babysitters because of the horrible stories. SO best way I protect him is if he is outside so am I. He is not old enough for the mall but I would say always having a cell phone would help and make sure I have updated pichures of him. Also having him check in every hour. Also making sure he knows what to do if someone tries to take him. Agree with you on how messed up the world is these days. Although it's messed up, this affords a parent to forge very close relationships with their children and helps protect them better. Keep the children in view at all times when they are outside, take them to and from school either by walking or driving them to and from. Instead of letting them go to the mall with friends, Offer to take them and their friends to the mall. This way you can watch over them somewhat better. Talk to other parents about this and maybe you can get them involved as well. Bike riding is a good activity, get yourself a bike and maybe the whole family could go biking about the neighborhood. Always carry a cell phone. If you can afford it get the kids a cell phone. Take pictures of your kids about every 3 months, have them finger printed, in the future there may be chip that can be implanted so they can be tracked using technology. Background checks on neighbors is a good idea, but usually is a waste of money. Instead use the internet to find your states database that lists sexual predators and their location. Those are free sources of information. Be aware of what's going on in your neighborhood. If you see a vehicle with someone sitting in it, that doesn't belong in your neighborhood, casually get the plate number, and keep a close watch on the kids. Don't take anything for granted when you do this. Last but not least. Form a neighborhood watch group in your neighborhood, this gets more people involved and usually the police will post for free a sign at each entrance to your neighborhood that states "This is a neighborhood watch community", it tends to make predators nervous and they go looking elsewhere. Hope this helps. hey i tell you one thing i have three children. if any body try to hurt them i will do my best to hurt them ok. i'm always watching my kids. i do not like for them to get out of my sight. i have a 18, 15 9 year old. people are sick in this world wanting to hurt children. i think they should be locked up and throw away the keys.if they did hurt my children the law beter get to them before i do. he or she would not have a chance with me getting a hold on them. they are sick people they will do it again.they cant get help for this its already in there blood to do it over and over again. and now parents are wanting to kill and hurt there own children. this world is getting bad. i hope the jesus will come soon. LOL. since you don't have kids, you need to relax BEFORE you go crazy ahead of time. Seriously, I am with my kids (5 & 3) when they are outside. They stay in our yard, except for riding their bikes then they are aloud a few houses down each direction. they do not run all over the neighborhood like some their age around here do. mine have not yet expressed a desire to roam the malls, so i do not worry about that part yet. when we go to the stores, there is no running off to the toys (like there was in MY day) while I shop. They stay right with me when we shop. I do not hire babysitters. They stay with my mom, my MIL or my niece. there are a few friends that they go over and play with. They are MY friends from childhood who have children the same age. Since there are so many sex offenders in my county, i check the website once a month. My kids are rude. Very rude. They will not talk to people they do not know, even if they see me or my husband talking to them. They will not talk to elderly people or even say hi if prodded by my mom or mother in law. I don't do background checks on my neighbors. I live in a small town, and even though my mother-in-law has been retired for almost 7 years, she is still a prominent lady and she and her friends know EVERYONE and EVERYTHING about anyone. They are more reliable than a background check. Thankfully, our paper publishes the Vital Statistics every week and you can see who has a DUI and other things. I have 5 boys. I agree with what all the others are saying. However, you can't be there 100% of the time as they grow up. You have to give them some sort of independence sooner or later. They have to be taught at an early age what to do and what not to do. What actions they should take should something occur. Play "what if" games with them, make a secret word or phrase that only you and they know (example: someone says you are in the hospital or something and they need to take them there.) We all want to protect our children and shield them from the horrors of the world, but we can't shield them from everything or everyone, and eventually as they grow they need to learn make decisions, protect themselves, and become aware of their surroundings. By the way, I did do a criminal search of our area prior to buying my house. I have a 9 year old son.I don't let him play outside without myself or my husband being outside with him.Even if he is playing with other children.I talk to him often about the danger of going off with a stranger. I make sure he understands that fighting with a stranger or anyone who is trying to harm him is not the same has my no hitting rule.I have made him understand that if the bad person gets the chance they will hurt him.That his only hope is to fight from the beginning.I have taught him to use what he has to protect himself.Rock,stick,baseball bat what ever will get his point across.I also make him keep a phone on him that has a gps chip in it.He was taught to not let anyone know it is in his backpack or pocket.Because the longer he has it on him the more likely we are to find him.Has for background checks.I don't let anyone whom I don't know watch my son and I do checks on our local state police website.It list the names,address and photos of all child predators in our area.But ultimately I know that these people whom prey on little kids will stop at nothing to get them once they are fixsated on them.But I try to do everything I can to protect him anyway.Hopefully if I make it hard on them to get him they will leave him alone. |
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