Keeping Your Child Safe from the Outside World

An avid watcher of the news channels I am totally aware of the horrors that can happen to children in this world. As you may know I myself have two children a 6 year old girl and a 19 month old boy. As a parent one of the things you immediately want to do is protect them and keep them safe. The question is how much can you protect them from the outside world? And can we protect them too much? There is a fine line. A few cases I've heard on the news in the past and present spring to my mind. The most recent is the very sad and devastating case of Baby P who was found dead in his blood splattered cot aged only 17 months (just two months younger than my son ...  Read the complete review

Keeping your child safe from the outside world. Boy what a topic to talk about. You dont know what to do for the best. Do you wrap them in cotton wool, let them go to school and not let them out of the house until they are 16, or do you let them be a child, have a decent childhood. I think I would have to be in the middle. There are so many things out there that can hurt or harm your child. One of those has to be abuse, and I think the only way you can manage this is by sitting down with your child, and talk about what to do, and I know it would be a difficult situation, but you need to gain the trust of your child, so that if anything like that ever did happen, then ...  Read the complete review

I think that there are two big things that you can do to protect your child from being abused without wrapping them in cotton wool and ruining their childhood. The first thing you can do is educate them. So many people are so concerned with preserving a child's "innocence" that they don't want their child to know about things that could help them protect themselves and help you to protect them. A child needs to be able to speak openly to their parents about sex. If your child can't approach you about sex then how could they tell you if someone does something inappropriate? If a child doesn't know about sex how will they know if they ...  Read the complete review

Keeping our children safe from the outside world is a good thing but also a bad thing. We are wrapping them up in so much cotton wool, that they are not learning the important lessons. Yes we should protect our children, but if you smother them too much what life skills are they learning? Then when they go off into the world on their own they are clueless and vunerable. Obviously it is harder than in my parents day to let your kids play outside. You hear so many cases of paedofiles, and kidnappings, but actually the amount of cases hasn't increased. It is just that we are more aware of it all now. I think that it has all gone a bit too far. I have heard some poor fathers ...  Read the complete review

Talk about a contentious issue! Still, its certainly relevant to us parents, especially with all the recent coverage of alleged child abduction, kidnapping, holding of children hostage for years in basements, and child-trafficking. Frightening, of course, but is the supposed danger simply media scaremongering? How do we, as parents and carers, ensure that we take a responsible line in protecting our children, but also enabling them to have freedoms like we did as kids. I was born in 1980, and I remember my Mum and Dad having few qualms about allowing me to play out the front of the house, with friends, probably from the age of 7. I was even entrusted ...  Read the complete review