Say No To Strangers
The other day we were all getting ready to go out to dinner. My husband was in the shower and I was getting dressed. Serophina was playing in her room. Suddenly she comes into our room talking about how a man was knocking at the door so she opened it and he asked for her mom or dad. At first I was a little confused because I would never dream that she would ever answer the door to a stranger without coming to us first! But that’s exactly what happened! I followed her to the front door and sure enough there was a man …
Hi, my name is Mamta and I’m a Paranoid Parent. (“Hi Mamta.”)
I live in constant trepidation of child kidnappers and predators; one’s lurking behind the bushes, quietly watching and another disguised themselves as a normal, nice person integrated into regular society.
Thanks to the abundance of horrific, real life stories of children being abducted on their way home from school, while playing in their neighborhood or sometimes even from their own backyards; thanks to television shows like Dateline: To Catch a Predator, and recently watched movies like The Lovely Bones, I have to admit that I, #1 trust NO ONE and #2 NEVER let my children out of my sight.
I sometimes …
