Comments on: Are we overprotecting our children. http://jrmiss86.com/2008/11/20/are-we-overprotecting-our-children/ The Adventures of a Stay at Home Mom Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:15:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Heather http://jrmiss86.com/2008/11/20/are-we-overprotecting-our-children/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Heather Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:45:41 +0000 http://jrmiss86.com/?p=56#comment-15 Toni, I too believe in moderation. We keep outlet covers on all the outlets that the children can get to, they both use car seats or booster seats in the car, that type of thing, but I won't bubble wrap my house or my backyard just to keep them from getting hurt. When my son hurt his leg jumping from the sofa onto the coffee table the other day he realized that the reason I tell him not to do that is to keep him from getting hurt, guess what he hasn't done it since.  You are right we all need to use the brains that God gave us and apply a little common sense. Toni,

I too believe in moderation. We keep outlet covers on all the outlets that the children can get to, they both use car seats or booster seats in the car, that type of thing, but I won’t bubble wrap my house or my backyard just to keep them from getting hurt. When my son hurt his leg jumping from the sofa onto the coffee table the other day he realized that the reason I tell him not to do that is to keep him from getting hurt, guess what he hasn’t done it since.  You are right we all need to use the brains that God gave us and apply a little common sense.

]]> By: The Happy Housewife http://jrmiss86.com/2008/11/20/are-we-overprotecting-our-children/comment-page-1/#comment-14 The Happy Housewife Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:47:17 +0000 http://jrmiss86.com/?p=56#comment-14 You make some good points. I think people have taken the protection thing way to far. It seems with everything these days there is little in moderation, everyone is to one extreme or the other. Our son was burned a few years back because he was messing around with a candle. His burns were a pretty bad on his hand but he recovered fine. I did not stop keeping candles in my home because of it. Now, would I keep a bottle of rat poison next to the cereal in the pantry... of course not, a lot of it boils down to good old common sense. My kids wear seatbelts/ carseats/ bike helmets because the it is safer for them to do so. But it is not affecting their quality of life to do these things... I could go on, but I am headed out of town :). Have a great Thanksgiving! Toni You make some good points. I think people have taken the protection thing way to far. It seems with everything these days there is little in moderation, everyone is to one extreme or the other. Our son was burned a few years back because he was messing around with a candle. His burns were a pretty bad on his hand but he recovered fine. I did not stop keeping candles in my home because of it. Now, would I keep a bottle of rat poison next to the cereal in the pantry… of course not, a lot of it boils down to good old common sense. My kids wear seatbelts/ carseats/ bike helmets because the it is safer for them to do so. But it is not affecting their quality of life to do these things… I could go on, but I am headed out of town :) . Have a great Thanksgiving!
Toni

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