Keeping our kids safe has gone too far (Keeping Your Child Safe from the Outside World)

Member Name: dustmad

Product:	Keeping Your Child Safe from the Outside World
Date:	03/11/08 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: Safety is paramount

Disadvantages: getting too paranoid

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 verbally attacked by some mothers, who are paranoid that they are paedofiles!! Come on people, they are parents too. Don't be so paranoid. Let your children play safely, but freely.

Summary: Keeping our children safe from the outside world is becoming a joke!!