Oh how I love the rain. Just a light rain today, but kissing the ground, plants and trees and making the air so very clean. Yes, I really love the rain.
I have just changed blog templates temporarily, partly because you can read more without scrolling for 2 hours, and because as much as I love the sea, the one I was using was a bit dreary. I'm looking for something snazzier and trying to figure out how I can use it on blogger.com. If I can't I may be switching blog locations any help would be appreciated.
I've spent the morning browsing through Twitter sites of moms and dads, some sites that have helpful products and services and general parenting help insights for parents with kids of all ages. I have been so impressed by all of you; the ones like @RenegadeMom, @WheelchairMommy, the mommies-to-be and the mommies that have 2 kids through 6 and more. You are all amazing!
You all have so many talents and so much energy. I can remember having that kind of energy once, but as the years have gone on most of my energy is spent enjoying my grand & great-grand children, and fulfilling my passion for keeping your children and teens safe from sexual predators, as well as my own family's children.
Before I go on, after you have read this blog I would love to get some feedback and input from any and all of you. Things you have done to help protect your kids, or things that have happened to your children that taught lessons to them and you that you would be willing to pass along to others. This is a blog for you, to support and hopefully provide education that will assist in your mission as a parent. All those lessons don't need to come from me, they can and should come from you as well.
I have just begun following many of you so you may not be familiar with who we are. My first blog tells all about us and me as well. But in a quick synopsis I created Safety Awareness & Family Education Network, Inc. (S.A.F.E. Network) 10 years ago. I wanted to help families keep their children safe. My first effort in that regard was my KidPrints Safety ID Kit. Over the years it has grown from that one id kit to BabyPrints, & TeenPrints Safety ID Kits, a parenting guide for keeping kids safe from sexual predators, a teen dating journal, an new parent program and a teen parent program along with a curriculum, the Personal Protection Empowerment Program for kids K-12 grades. There are also games and a great video that teaches kids how to get away from a potential abduction, workshops, training, and so much more.
Thats our non-profit mission in a nutshell. But what I want to share with all of you today is how easy it is to keep your babies and children safe from the tricks and lures that predators use to lure them, and make you feel comfortable with their presence in your lives. You all are so loving and caring on behalf of your kids and I know that you want to believe that everyone in their life is loving and truly cares about their welfare. My hope is that you are right. Fortunately there is a way to tell who fits that category and who doesn't; those people who filter into your life through one avenue or another and become a fixture in ways that cause you to not even think of them in any particular way at all.
The best way to understand who these people are is to recognize behaviors. Subtle things they do that can trick, lure and trap your children without you knowing. The second best way to beat them at their own game is to build a relationship with your child that lets them know that no matter what someone says or what they may have done or been forced to do, you will love them anyway. Predators count on parents not noticing the changes in their children's behavior when they have been victimized. They threaten kids into silence making them believe you won't love them anymore, or won't believe them. If you sit your kids down, say, on a weekly basis and talk with them, laugh with them and practice little role-plays with them related to how predators might try to get them to do things, you will build their trust and give them more confidence about what to do when away from loving caring adults.
Please visit our website at http://www.safenetwork.org for much more helpful information, and take your children to our kids website http://kidtips101.org, if you have preteens (11-12) or teenagers, our teen site is perfect because it gets into other aspects of life, like dating safety.
So now that we have been introduced please come back often and share, read and enjoy.
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