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Safety skills for children beyond your home
Indicators of sexual abuse
How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools
Approaches for keeping teenagers safe from violence
All parents face the same challenges as it pertains with their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what things to believe, what things to doubt, what things to fear, and what never to fear. With this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the country's leading expert on predicting violent behavior and writer of the monumental bestseller The Gift of Fear, offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level, providing you the tools you will need to allow your children freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring and compassion, he shatters the widely held myths about danger and safety and helps parents find some certainty about life's highest-stakes questions:
How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be a person who harms my child? (see page 103)
What must i ask child-care professionals after i interview them? (see page 137)
What's the ultimate way to prepare my child for walking to school alone? (see page 91)
How do my child be safer at school? (see page 175)
How can I spot sexual predators? (see page 148)
What must i do if my child is lost in public areas? (see page 86)
How can I teach my child about risk without leading to too much fear? (see page 98)
What must my teenage daughter know in order to be safe? (see page 191)
What must my teenage son know in order to be safe? (see page 218)
And lastly, when confronted with all these questions, how can I reduce the worrying? (see page 56)
