safe me and safe you

safe me and safe you - this represents the parent and child together in the campaign to make society safer for all of us.
@tatzkie (644)
Philippines
October 30, 2007 9:39pm CST
how to make our children safe? thatz one of the question that most parents ask in conventions on child protection. is it enough to secure the child inside a house, provide him clothing, food, education and play time? Isolation of the child has been one of the issues presented in the child advocacy conferences. And it has been theorized that an isolated child will have problems in inter acting with the real world in the upcoming future. A child whose routine is house -school- house seems to become weak in its socialization skills. However, main reason why parents seems to have this tendency is security. they want to secure their child in a safe environment that they can control. here lies the problem. some parents think that child rearing is just a personal and family affair. No. if they want to have a safe environment for their child at their homes, all the more they must be concern of making a safe environment outside their homes, where sooner or late, their child will be expose to. Thus, parents must take part in the developmental concern on how to make a society safer to children. To start with, is to promote the thought thatthey have a responsibility to the immediate environment outside their home. Then, one must take part in the social action towards developing those members of our society at risk, because they can become potential culprits that will make the environment unsafe to their children. One must see wholistically and must see the inter connections and inter relatedness of things, people and event in the wide arena of society which will affect each other and ourselves. WE MUST PUT IN OURSELVES IN CONTEXT WITH SOCIETY AND MUST BE PART OF MAKING LONG TERM SOLUTIONS TO ITS PROBLEMS. Thatz the way to make it safe for me and safe for you and safe for our children. Comments? Suggestions?
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• Philippines
11 Nov 07
Keeping children safe doesn't necessarily mean that we should change the existing society. The reality is, our society cannot be changed overnight. what we must do is to teach a child how to be wise in dealing with other people, how to defend themselves from harsh members of the society and while teaching them how to be wise we must also teach them how to be the next better members of society. This I believe, is one long term solution to this problem.
@tatzkie (644)
• Philippines
11 Nov 07
very well said. but i think i still believe that being a developmental issue. society should be made better for the children. its not enough to teach them how to defend themselves. because if the problem is structural and cultural, defending themselves is rather passive than being active.
@linda021 (100)
• China
31 Oct 07
i donot have children now,but i think as a monther or father ,you should teach the children how to do ,and what to do in the right way,that maybe you can make them far away from the dangrous
@tatzkie (644)
• Philippines
31 Oct 07
yeah you are definitely right. its your obligation and responsibility to do so. thanks for the comment.
@asgtswife04 (2475)
• United States
31 Oct 07
I think that you are right. Where we should be concerned at all times for our childrens safety, we also need to introduce them to the world as well for eventually they will be out their on their own. I don't think it's healthy to keep a child at home all the time just because you are trying to protect them from the outside world. However, I do think that in having them out you should be and make your children aware of all the surroundings and problems there are out there. You can keep your children safe without making them prisoners of their own home.
@tatzkie (644)
• Philippines
31 Oct 07
tnx for the comment. good luck in your family life and may ur children be safe always. carry on!