Quote From: meemaw2jjmm I agree with you but just be careful if someone offers to watch your kids, you never know how honest they are. Personally, I would volunteer to watch, yet I would be fearful of being wrongly accused. Unfortunately, back in our grandparents day, there weren't as many whackos out there wanting to kidnap, rape or murder your children. Be Careful Mom. :)
I don't believe there were less wackos out there. I believe people just tended to not to talk about the molester, murderer, kidnapper, rapist. I believe rather then accepting that our parents and grandparents did the best they knew how under the circumstances they knew we just look at the situation with hind sight being 20/20.
Yes, there's always a chance there's a wacko but teaching your child to live in constant fear of every stranger is in my opinion a form of abuse. If you teach your child to fear all strangers then where would they go if they needed help finding help? There aren't always police men or secruity guards. 99% parents and grandparents have had that moment of 'Oh God where So-So go?'
I taught my four year old if we become separated and there is no secruity or police officer in sight to look for a man or woman who child or someone to that nature. At the store, I ask my daughter occasionally to tell me who she would go to if she was lost. She look and even walk around until she sees someone she would be comfortable with. I then have her go up to them and ask them the time.
Just one thing I've always wanted to know. This is a question for someone who believes leaving the child in the car for second is wrong, someone mentioned John's Walsh's son was kidnapped from I believe Walmart while his mother was an aisle over. Should police have charged her neglect? She had her child in the store not in the car and something happened.
I really more fearful of people who dictate what is abuse and neglectful then I am of the strangers who could be wackos.
