My children's safety is a very important thing to me, and I have always tried to be on gaurd to anything that might happen. I once read this book called, PROTECTING THE GIFT, author GAVIN DE BECKER. It has been a number of years since I have done so, so I should read it once through again.
As a child I remember very vividly, a frightening incident. I was around my oldest dtr's age, 12, I think. I was riding my bicycle to the park which was only about a block from our home, and a straight-away at that. I rode by this house, 1/2 down the road, I heard a whistle, I looked over to see a man standing in his doorway, looking out at me. I blew it off. I rode home from the park a bit later, then rode back and this same thing occurred, he whistled, I looked over, and this time, this man was standing naked in his doorway staring at me. I freaked out! I was so scared, I rode the rest of the way down the road, and around the block to avoid passing this house once again. My Mom was livid when I told her what happened. She walked down there, and knocked on his door, he would not answer, so she peeked into his garage, and he was pacing, fully clothed around his garage. I was so fearful of passing that house EVER again. What might have happened? What was his motive?
Even in my blog, I have tried to avoid revealing too much information to my location. But, never in a million years would I have thought a predator would use Ebay as navigation to harm a child.
We must all as Mothers, and Humans, do what we can to protect our children, as well as others. Please take the time to read the links in this post.