It's the first week and fourth day of school you go to pick up the kids from school and bring them back up to the club. Just a normal day keeping the kids undercontroll, doing snack bar, helping kids with their homework. Just an other day at the club. Then you get a phone call and its a parent asking if their child is there and you tell them no and the parent sounds concered but thanks you and hangs up. A few minutes later they call again making sure that they are not there, and again you tell them no. So you do your part and try and find that child by going to the park that you had passed by on the way to the club to see if they are there, and while you are at the park an other parent comes to the club to pick up their child and you tell them well so-and-so didn't come today so they leave upset and worried on where their child is at. well you find out that the first child is ok they were just at someone else house. THEN you have a cop and a mother crying her eyes becuase she has no clue as to where her little boy is at. Again you tell both of them that he never came to the club.
Well just as all the kids are leaving a parent comes in and gives you a picture of that little boy saying that he is missing and that he got kidnaped. Your heart just breaks, because he is one of the kidnest, cutiest kid there at the club. What had happened was that when he got off his buss at home a guy and girl in a red car called out his name and he went to the car and they pulled him in and left. This is all you know and you feel helpless. You ask yourself what it is that you can do to help this family?
So, I guess what Im tring to say is if you have a child make sure that you know where they are going and most important they know where they have to go. I dont have a child but that has to be one of the scariest feelings ever not knowing where your child is at. Teach your child dangers of strangers and not to go up to people that they dont know. Yeah i know most people already know all of this but all this just happened today and I felt like I talking about it. My thoughts and prayers go out to that family and i just hope that little boy, Sam, is ok and that we find him soon!
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That's awesome that you are spreading the news that many parents ignore and think "That would never happen to our kid" Well, it can happen, it can happen to ANYONE.
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That's really awful and I hope the kid turns up ok. Of course it's right to make sure your children know not to go off with strangers, but I believe this 'stranger danger' stuff masks the fact that most children who are victims of abuse are abused by a relative or family friend and NOT a complete stranger off the street. Sure warn your children of potential dangers from unknown people, but you should also let them know if ANYONE hurts them or does something inappropriate then they should tell you or another adult they can trust, even if the abuser is for example their uncle or teacher. Kids in this situation are often afraid that no one will believe them and so they don't tell, suffering years of abuse in silence.