Good, the kids should be involved in the planning and know what to expect.
This world is not kind to children, we say we are protecting them, but todays child knows more that I do.
After a nervous experience, with some strangers that were watching us, at an old mine we were looking over.
We worked out code words that only we and the kids knew.
Bill and I did not use our first names, ever, they simply were not us.
So, if we wanted instant attention, we decided the first name yelled out, would not alert a stranger to the fact that we were on the alert and expecting trouble.
And warn the kids to cool it, until we knew what was going on.
It makes them feel special when they have their own little jobs to do.
This world is not kind to children, we say we are protecting them, but todays child knows more that I do.
Sometimes when my hubby and son take my little girl to wal mart without me,(a good time for waxing the floors) the last thing I always tell them is, "If you lose her, don't come back".
She's developmentally delayed so I don't have the problem of her knowing too much at this point in her life. To her, shut up is a bad word. She wants to go live on Pride Rock when she's 18. She's 12 and no where near mature enough to understand the world around her so we're very protective and watch her very closely. She would be easy pickings for a pervert so she is never out of our sight or off our hand in public.
She knows there's bad people because we told her there was. She is too friendly with strangers and that's dangerous in todays world.