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Originally Posted by acjcpastor
Have you ever watched Gone With The Wind? Horseback riding accidents happen. The point is, a 13-year-old girl could be killed while riding a horse. Now, we trust that won't happen and we don't even worry that it might. On the other hand, she could be abducted and raped while riding a bike to her horseback riding lesson. We have no way of knowing what will happen when they ride off into the wild blue yonder.
Statistically, there are more 13 year old girls killed in car wrecks that close to home than there are 13 year old girls pulled off their bikes and abducted by strangers. Yet we think it's safer to drive them. Why? At the end of the day, no matter how hard you try to protect them, kids sometimes get hurt. The only peace we can have is trusting that God will keep them and protect them, whether they are on a bike, in a car or riding a horse.
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Which do you think is easier to deal with??? Your child being killed in a car wreck or being abused or kidnapped???
One thing you have to keep in mind is that, you have to do all you can do to protect your children.... You can't help it when you're in a car wreck and someone dies... That's tragic... but it's a lot easier to live with than knowing that you could have kept a child from being abducted, raped, murdered or anything... I know we can't live in fear, but we have to be sooo careful... Especially today! I trust God! So did my Mom... I rode all over... By the time I was in the 4th grade, I had to keep my own house key without losing it... my own lunch money.... without losing it.... I also had to leave from the house on time to make it to school.... Mom could trust me... but what about the car full of guys that were riding along side of me trying to hit me with a baseball bat.... What about the guy at the park who was hanging around us girls and then showed us a knife and told us to come to him.... and there was a crowd of us.... this was also 25 years ago... .... what about the man who was stopping innocent children, showing them a pic and asking if they'd seen a certain person... It was a horrific, perverse pic and it happen to my cousins and I ... Fortunately they saw it I got to the car, grabbed me and took off running.... we ran home in fear... I don't like to take chances... My boys want more freedom... they will get their freedom at a later day. My oldest is 11 and is almost as tall as me 5'9 and 200lb+.. He's a strong boy... but none the less, he's a boy and I will do all I can to protect him.... Where we live, more than likely nothing will happen.... and as long as I have the power to protect them, I will.... They'll have more freedom than they care to have in a few years..... They can wait !!! Over protective?? Yes yes yes.... But I will say, my children have never been in those situations that I was in.... My children have never been molested, thank God... They've never been abused.... My children haven't had their innocence stolen from them.... Being over protective pays off....
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