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 Protecting the Gift Oct 21, 2009
Although this book has some theoretic overlap with The Gift of Fear, it nonetheless provides some new insights and theory. Specifically on how to protect children.
Not to miss!
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 should be required reading for all parents Nov 16, 2008
Fantastic book. A little hard to read at first, due to the nature of the subject, but stick with it and become a better parent.This book teaches us how to trust our instincts about other adults and situations. It helps us learn how to be confident in our choices for such things as babysitters, or homes we allow our children to visit.It teaches us how to make safe decisions for our kids and how to let go of feeling guilty or rude if we don't have a specific reason why we don't trust someone, we just don't feel comfortable about a person or situation. Better to be safe, (and skip the mild embarrassment) then overrule your instinct and risk harm to your child.
A must for all Parents Aug 28, 2008
This is an excellent eye-opening book that proves useful to parents of boys or girls in all ages groups.
Great to keep as a resource.
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great safety tips on keeping children safe Jul 17, 2008
I love Gavin de Becker's perspective on teaching safety to children. He has some ideas that buck what a lot of parents know to be the norm when teaching safety. For example - if a child is lost he likes to teach them, instead of finding a police officer, to find a mother... that a woman with children is less likely to be a predator, and more likely to stay with the child until their parent is found. Another example is his stand on the whole "never talk to strangers" philosophy. He instead advocates working with your child to learn to assess whether a "stranger" is ok to talk to. He gives great examples and tips
The middle to end of the book gets a little slow going but it is definitely the kind of book you can skip around and go back to at different times.
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Useful Information Jul 09, 2008
Piggybacking on the message of his earlier book, "The Gift of Fear," Gavin De Becker's "Protecting the Gift" is an informative look at how we can keep children and teenagers from becoming victims. The author draws on his extensive history as a child abuse victim himself, and his career as a security expert, to give practical advice to concerned parents.
As a concerned parent myself, this book was enlightening and reassuring. It stated the possible risks that might face children and adolescents, and provided some good strategies for dealing with these risks and, more importantly, teaching children to deal with these risks themselves. I felt like I could take much of the advice in this book and apply it directly to my own kids.
I didn't like the fact that so many of the anecdotes in this book were taken directly from "The Gift of Fear," which I read immediately before this book. It felt like the author had cheated, using recycled stories instead of digging up something new to illustrate his points.
In general, though, I found this book much more useful for my specific situation than his previous book.
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