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> NEVER leave your children unattended even for a moment. I don't understand this approach. Alternatively, find a place to live, and a lifestyle to live, that
by betenoire 9y ago
> NEVER leave your children unattended even for a moment.
I don't understand this approach. Alternatively, find a place to live, and a lifestyle to live, that lets your children develop without your anxiety weighing them down. You leave them unattended for hours and hours at a time while you sleep. The only difference your mind isn't racing with potential threats, it's asleep.
I don't know. all kids are different, mine too.
- dwaltrip 9y agoMy understanding, and what I remember from some brief research, is that kidnappings by strangers are incredibly rare. This would mean that the widespread fear we see nowadays is very disproportionate, and likely due to a variety of other social factors and not some actual underlying danger. Can anyone provide a quick corroboration/correction on this?
- gnicholas 9y agoYou are correct—it's around 100 stranger abductions per year in the U.S. http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/31/kidnapping-stats http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/31/kidnapping-stats https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-missing-children/2013/05/10/efee398c-b8b4-11e2-aa9e-a02b765ff0ea_story.html?utm_term=.c4581f155af5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-mis...
- dwaltrip 9y agoThanks for the data/links. Glad to know it actually isn't a major issue.
- dsnuh 9y ago> NEVER leave your children unattended even for a moment. Yeah, I have 4 kids, and this right here, in my opinion is the core of the current trend to overparent. Let your kids play where you played. Let them have their own life outside of your control and influence. There is something very unhealthy about the way we have started viewing children and childhood in the USA.