Keeping Your Child Safe from the Outside World Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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, ...  Read the complete review

Our kids these days are growing up with no idea of life in the real world and this is primarily because we shelter them from it. We hear every day of kids being abducted, murdered etc in the media and it frightens us to the point where we won't even let our kids play at the front of our houses anymore, its very sad. I have 2 children ...  Read the complete review

Keeping your children safe from the massive amount of risks involved with the outside world can be a difficult task to acheive. There is a wide range of issues which you wouldn't want your children getting involved in, from drugs and crime to teenage pregnancy to the side effects of alcohol misuse. In my own personal experince as a ...  Read the complete review

Keeping children safe from the outside world can be a full time job. I thought by sending my child to puclic school I would be doing the right thing. I though he would recieve an excellent education and the teachers would control the amount of negative he encountered. I was very wrong. My child was coming home every day from school upset. ...  Read the complete review

It is every parents nightmare to have their children go missing, even when it is for only a few minutes while at the supermarket when the wander off in search of the sweetie aisle there is that sense of panic, dread, hysteria and a ball of pain that starts to grow in the pit of your stomach. The important thing is to get a sense of ...  Read the complete review

When teaching children to be wary, they often take your lead easily. You don't have to tell them the facts about why they can't talk to strangers, and its unwise to tell them because the facts you give them can be manipulated by predators. But generally children will follow your lead. When it comes to teenage years they grow more ...  Read the complete review

It seems Halloween is almost upon us, although I have to say even as a child I never found the whole idea an entertaining one. Call me a big girls blouse, but I always found all this talk of ghosts and witches not so much chilling as rather odd, especially as we rope the kids in to help celebrate the event. You spend all year reading them bed time ...  Read the complete review

***** update due to recent information ***** I would like us all to take a moment's silence for the two little girls Holly and Jessica. I have wanted to express my feelings for a few days but it is such a difficult thing to imagine, let alone write about. How can our society allow such ...  Read the complete review

After reading a terrible op about an attempted abduction I thought that I would write to tell you all a true story that happened to a friend of mine. No names will be real because I cannot and will not be responsible for anyone who may read this and possibly know them and maybe mention something as all my friend wants to do is put this behind him ...  Read the complete review

Errrr...hello. I don't usually write opinions in Kids and Family, because I don't actually have any (kids, that is.) But before you dismiss me as a complete novice or decide that I am probably trying to teach my Grandmother to suck eggs, I'd like to give you an idea about a little project for the weekend. It's called "Saving ...  Read the complete review

As parents we all tell our children about Stranger Danger. Actually it is not just parents that warn children never talk to strangers, take sweets from them or even sit on their laps etc as they are told in schools by teachers and even the police go and chat to them about it. So why oh why does this all fly out of the window when ...  Read the complete review

Firstly I want to ask you, is it possible to keep our children safe from the outside world? - Sadly I have come to the conclusion that it’s not possible. Don’t be dismayed- we all know the world is a hard place to live and survive- how many of you have used the expression “it’s a dog eat dog world”? I know I have! ...  Read the complete review

Its that time of year again guys and girls. Loud bangs, pretty flashes of coloured lights, baked potatoes and huddling around drinking mulled wine. But what I want to talk about has a rather serious nature. Fire work safety. Ahh yes, seems so simple doesn't it. Most of us know the rules but do we ever abide by them? Here is some basic ...  Read the complete review

Yesterday was Halloween - it is not a day I celebrate - nor do I understand why anyone else does. It, to the best of my knowledge, is something to do with All Hallows - a pagan festival, celebrating I don't know what. For some bizarre reason our country has recently become more and more obsessed with allowing our children to roam the ...  Read the complete review

Fortunately my kids don't think so, but my step daughter does. Hallowe'en is almost upon us and that has sparked the great boring debate in our house. My kids are 7 and 9, my step daughter is 8. She's not with us for Hallowe'en this year for which I am truly thankful. The problem ... I won't let them go out ...  Read the complete review

Halloween starts this week (20th October)according to the children who live near me. One after the other they knock at the doors of my neighbours and myself begging for sweets and cash. The shops are full of natty costumes for the would-be halloweener. Sadly, the children have little idea of the true significance of what they are doing. ...  Read the complete review