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60 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 20h \ parent \ on: Becoming fearful with age FiresidePhilosophy
When our daughter was a newborn I told my wife that I wanted a bumper sticker that said "Baby on board: Rear end me and I will end you"
My wife says “baby on board” stickers are unsafe because they make you targets for people praying on distracted people in parking lots.
She’s probably not wrong
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This to me actually gets at the heart of the OP: the odds of your kid getting snatched in a parking lot are low. The way you change your child by too zealously protecting them may be more likely to harm them.
(I wrestle with this tension daily. I have mostly, I think, been too protective of my children...so take the above as a confession not admonishment).
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She probably isn't wrong, but I thought fair warning was warranted considering how hyper-protective I was feeling.
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That’s fair!
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