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Summary: Don't Procrastinate!
Review: I hate reading anything that makes me feel anxious and initially this book sat on the shelf for weeks before I actually picked it up. I was so glad I did because there is such valuable information in here and I actually feel better about my child's safety than I did before. Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe and Parents Sane is about how to teach your child to trust her instincts when it comes to safety. Since 90% of child abuse and abductions occur by people well-known to your child, teaching her to talk to strangers just doesn't work. Instead, the author gives you detailed and logical steps to take, starting as early as toddlerhood, so you'll know how to help your child learn to follow her instincive feelings about whether someone is safe or not. Crucial information about how to be prepared for (God forbid but we should all be prepared just in case) the event that your child may be seperated from you in public. Examples include making a daily detailed mental note of the clothing your child is wearing, keeping large photocopies of your child's picture and name in your purse/wallet so you can hand them out to security personel within seconds of your child's disappearance and an action plan for immediate implementation. There is SO much in this book - every bit of it worth reading so you can protect your child - and I can't recommend it strongly enough. Read it NOW and be prepared.
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Summary: intelligent, practical and to the point.
Review: If I could afford it I would buy this book for every parent I know and anyone I didn't who would take it.
This is a difficult book to read because it talks about the truth.
This is a most valuable book. De Becker is an intelligent writter that does not insult the readers intelligence or couarge to face facts.
What is so valuable is his ability to walk the reader out of denial and then into the most simple and practical ways to be with the truth about what we as parents and caregivers can do to keep our kids as safe as possible.
What De Becker refers to as the wild brain was the most helpful to me as a parent. What I basicly got from it was to stop worring and pay attention to my gut instincts, be aware-but not paranoid. Take action on your gut feelings no matter what the circumstance may seem like in terms of politeness and social graces.
I most sincerly hope that you read this book. My review does not do it justice.
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Summary: A Must Read for all Parents
Review: It's been a while since I read this book, however I appreciate the logic and the common sense approach it contains. I believe parents could really learn some valuable things from this book and it could be used as a prevention tool to protect children from abuse. As a parent of grown children I realize how often I discounted my children's opinions of people. I have learned so much from this book and I encourage parents and other adults to read this book and other books by Mr. DeBecker. They give you permission to trust your own instincts and those of your children. Buy the book, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Amazon says "a terrifying book"??
Review: It's like that reviewer missed part of the point: being too fearful ADDS to danger; it doesn't reduce it. That's part of what sets this book so far apart from the others: it's not jam-packed with fearmongering horror stories. This book is the most sane, research-backed, well-written guide to keeping our children safe I have seen. It is so difficult to find the medium point between being appropriately cautious and living in paranoid fear. This book details clear, simple steps I can take to enhance the safety and wellbeing of my children- and myself- in all sorts of situations, today and in the long term. I am so thankful.
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Summary: A Definite Must Buy for All Parents
Review: My Dad is a retired FBI agent, and I cannot express how much I learned from reading Gavin de Becker's book. I thought that I knew a lot from my Dad, but as a parent I wanted to learn the best way to protect my child from predators. This book is exactly what parents need to take control and not feel as though the bad guys are in charge. This is a MUST read for every worried parent out there.
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Summary: For parents, educators and anyone concerned with children.
Review: Once again, Mr. de Becker has allowed us his wonderful insights and common sense about how we can trust ourselves when we choose to listen. If everyone could read this book and learn to be aware of the natural phenomenon referred to as intuition, we could also set ourselves as an example to our children and start a new generation of safer societies and less stress, tension, hostility that is based on unwarranted fears and the sadness too often born in hindsight of those missed or ignored intuitions. Please read this book and take every suggestion to heart. I would encourage everyone to also read his earlier book The Gift of Fear for the same reasons applied to your own protection and safety. If you are unaware of how to truly protect yourself, you cannot be aware enough to protect your children. Sincerely, Barbara Reynolds, M.S., CCC-A Clinical Audiologist
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Summary: Best Book for Parents
Review: Parents,Teachers,Doctors...everyone. This is the best book to teach how to keep our children safe. Wish Someone could have read the book and kept me safe as a child. I ant to also recommend two books, Nightmares Echo and Beauty For Ashes. Both of these books are told from the sexual abused child's point of view. Each offering thier own way to survive.
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Summary: A book all parents should read
Review: Review: This is one book that EVERY parent should read. It not only gives you permission to take the necessary steps to protect your children, but it compells you to do so. Read it! And then read it again!!! You will have your eyes opened to what you can do to empower yourself and your children where their safety is concerned. At the very worst, you'll not be left with the agonising thought "If only I had done more" - by simply picking up this book and reading it you are doing more.
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Summary: "...there is one child molester per square mile."
Review: That fact from the US Department of Justice referenced on page 16 of Gavin De Beckers books is only one example of the reality in our world. You think you know how to protect your children, but do you? Mr. DeBecker has taught me more in the first 30 pages of his book than I ever could imagine. Trust your intuition, we have it for a reason. Violence is a reality. "Reality is the highest ground you can find-and the safest-because from there you can see what's coming." I bought this book for myself and two friends, we all just had our first children. I can't read it fast enough. BUY IT! READ IT! And tell your friends about it, children are our greatest gift and our future.
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Summary: Powerful! Enlightening!
Review: The parts of this book that were hard to read were the very parts that I needed to educate myself on. I feel much more equipped to recognize danger and to teach my children how to be safe. Most importantly, DeBecker teaches us to trust our instincts. Great reading! ESSENTIAL to parents.
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