Originally Posted by ngdawg

Parents need to remember that kids need to have fun, they need to explore and they need to know what they can do. Yea, there are bad things, always was, always will be. When my mom was 3, in 1933, she was abducted, beaten and pissed on and left for dead-her mother coddled her after that.... when my dad was 5, in 1934, a man held him underwater trying to drown him while swimming at Coney Island, but that didn't stop him from going back...when my sister was 7, in 1964, she was approached and almost abducted while walking home from school, but guess what? We all still walked to school afterwards.