[Samwise]

It broke our hearts to see this on the news this morning. My daughter is 11. Her father and I took the opportunity to call her to the television and watch the report. We talked about how quietly the girl seems to go with the man. Kids are programmed to obey adults. We asked her what she would do. She said fight. Her dad even rehearsed a battle, telling her she wasn't fighting enough or being loud enough. Tonight we will review our safe list. People who she can trust should an emergency arise.

But you never know. We thought we had taught her fire safety. One night our fire alarm went off. The vent had come off the dryer. There was no fire; the heat had set it off. Hubby and I were messing with the alarm and the dryer. My daughter was upstairs in her room, scared to death, and hiding. She thought the house was on fire and didn't do anything we had taught her.

Prayers for that poor girl and her family. Prayers for all our children.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Dear God. This is just nightmarish.

[leadpencil1]

I saw the tape this morning as well and wanted to jump through the television to clobber the guy.You could tell she didn't want to go with him but he looked like he acted in a very authoritative way with her. It is unimagineable what the parents must be going through.

[mtbopfuyn]

My daughter is 11. Her father and I took the opportunity to call her to the television and watch the report.

Similar btdt to your smoke alarm. You try to teach them but in the end they're still children. The girl did indeed go with the man far too easily. Like you, we have done role playing with the kids but we're going to go through it again today. Sad to say they have mace and we gave them walkie talkies for Christmas just so they can hopefully beep us on the short walk to their friends'. Christmas has turned into protection devices for our loved ones. Anyone know what happened with the girl who went missing from her car who had gotten a cell phone, though not activated, for Christmas?

[Velveeta]

One of my daughters is 11 also. Your heart sinks when you see something like this. Praying hard for Carlie's safe return.