Tips to keep kids safe at WDW.

[Tonka's Skipper]

Well Tuba, I understand your opinion and disagree.................AKK

 

[disnut8]

Violent crime, murder, kidnappings are at decades low levels but still 1 in 4 Americans WILL be the victim of a violent crime at least once in their lives. People need to be prepared that they might be a "statistic" one day and be prepared to tilt the odds in their favor should that day ever come. The first step on that path is awareness.

But that one in four stat doesn't mean that a family of five when visiting Disney World will have one of their party meet up with a violent crime. Stats are overall stats for a period of time at different places in America in different environments. I think the thread has veered off what is appropriate at Disney World to what is appropriate for your own children to learn from parents.

 

[Magpie]

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Please quote me correctly...............I did not say murder, there is a difference, but that is a whole different discussion.......and by hurt I was referring to attacking, assault, sexual assault etc.


That said, I agree with you:

***You want to keep them as safe as possible, but if you don't let them take risks, you're actually increasing the likelihood they'll come to harm.***



As I said near the beginging of this thread:

..............Teaching a child safety and how to protect themselves, does not mean teaching them fear, quite the opposite, your teaching/empowering them to know they have the skills to protect themselves and not be afraid.

All I did at the start of this thread was post a repeat of 10 way to help keep kids safe.............seems that's a good thing, even if you don't agree with them all, does but mean anyone is teaching fear.


AKK

I do understand you, and I do also agree.

But I also think people throw "kill" around entirely too lightly. When you say, "I would kill any family member who hurt my children," you are talking about murdering them. Because if you literally "kill" them, then they are dead at your hand, and not by accident or chance, which is the legal definition of murder, since you are not a soldier in a war zone, have not been invested with the authority to execute anyone by the state, and the chances are unlikely it would be self defense.

And even sexual assault can be a complex problem without easy answers when it occurs within families. What if it's your grandpa with Alzheimer's, who has mistaken your daughter for his girlfriend from his highschool days? (Not saying you have to answer that, just an example from my life - an old fellow I worked with kept grabbing and trying to fondle his daughter-in-law, thinking she was a French prostitute from his war years.)

And I also agree with silenttuba who said that the vast majority of real threats to children at Disney don't involve strangers.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Magpie.......sorry I disagree.........and I am sorry I used the word *dead*, I have changed it,its not a discussion subject for this site.

AKK

 

[Magpie]

Magpie.......sorry I disagree.........and I am sorry I used the word *dead*, I have changed it,its not a discussion subject for this site.

AKK

Fair enough!