"It goes without saying that no one wants a child to be hurt, ever.
"Sometimes, though, it seems as if we believe that with enough child-surveillance, parent-surveillance, blaming, shaming, investigating and arresting we can achieve perfect childhood safety: Just make sure kids are watched 24/7 — and hound the parents who don’t do that.
"That’s why we really have to think about actual safety and not just the knee-jerk response: 'Never let them out of our sight till they’re 18!' ..."The [real] safe word is 'Confidence'...."Kids are not less safe today."~ Lenore Skenazy, from her post 'Second Thoughts on Keeping Kids Safe by Never Letting Them Out of Our Sight — and the Enduring Myth of Stranger Danger'.
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