Re: Child molestation
I do believe young children should be supervised strictly but once they are 15/16 you have to learn to let them make mistakes. How else will they learn? I’m doubtful that they will turn all evil villain on you and start smoking, drinking and have sex but we’re talking about child molestation and no matter how hard you try to supervise it’s never enough if you don’t want your kid to be persuaded don’t just say “don’t talk to strangers”, “don’t accept candy from strangers” you have to also give reasons why. Why shouldn’t they? Why shouldn’t they trust this person?
Parents will always be fearful of the big bad world out there and kids will always be trustful but you can’t watch them 24/7 that won’t help and it would just agitate the child and he/she would want to go against what you tell them more.
So what I’m saying is reason with them, explain why its dangerous to trust everyone out there and that you only want them to be safe.
Some of them don’t.. I have a few cousins bk in Pak who weren’t given much freedom at all and into their late teens and early twenties they were ridiculously naive.. and crazy as it sounds their parents think it’s a plus point that they’re ‘simple’..
It’s all about** balance** imo..