By showing what danger really looks like - as opposed to what we might imagine it looks like - de Becker gives parents freedom from many common worries and unwarranted fears.The Department of Conservation and the Waitaki Menzshed have joined forces to launch a backyard trapping programme in Oamaru. De Becker also shatters the myth that rules like "Never talk to strangers" will keep your children safe. ![]() He offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level: specific questions parents can ask to effectively screen and evaluate babysitters, daycare services, schools, and doctors a "Test of 12" safety skills children need before being alone in public warning signs to help parents protect children from sexual abuse and how to keep teenage girls and boys from unsafe situations with peers and adults. In this indispensable resource, de Becker provides keen insights into the behavior and strategies of predators. Now, in this exclusive audio presentation of Protecting the Gift, de Becker empowers parents to fully trust their own intuition when it comes to their children's safety. In his groundbreaking best seller The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker showed millions of readers that, like every creature on earth, human beings can predict violent behavior. Unfortunately, I don't think this book can help much. I've no kids of my own yet I can imagine a parent?s urgency. They must be knowledgeable when parents aren't there. But just as people knew 15 years ago, the best defense is a smart kid, one that knows to never go to meet a stranger, and that an online stranger has no right to ask them such personal questions. ![]() ![]() The internet provides a fast, hard-to-detect way for predators to chat with teens, making the world more dangerous today. However, outside of the horrific case stories, the book doesn?t have much to advise us on that we don?t already know by now. One very sad story involves a 13-year-old girl who befriended someone she believed to be a teen boy but was an adult who convinced her to meet him, then kidnapped and killed her. There are some parts of the book that are very moving these are the tragedies of the victimized kids. And there?ve been accusations that Dateline means to entertain and shock. There are way too many other factors at work here for it to be a matter of catching a predator and removing the threat. However, I?m not so sure that exposing them on Dateline NBC is the most moral thing to do. They need to realize the painful impact their actions can have on a young teen. Like anyone, I feel anger toward these men and want them to pay for what they did. These men are pedophiles who have crossed the line between living with the desires they struggle with and acting on those desires by first chatting online with an underage kid, then gradually steering the conversations to sexual topics, and eventually arranging to meet the young person alone. And for the past several years, he has been selling the on-air complete destruction of the lives of men that most of society regards with contempt. His fame and wealth depends on how successfully he sells his televised news stories. I don?t know why it matters so much what Hansen?s motivations are, but it does, and I just don?t trust him. To Catch a Predator presents a strong analysis of what some feel is a child-predator epidemic and a startling look at the shortcomings of our systems and society. ![]() Hansen also looks at the current methods for treating child predators. The book expands beyond the Dateline series to include more commentary from psychological and criminal experts about the origins and methods of child predators, and includes substantive advice for both parents and children on how to protect kids who use the Internet. In his book To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen, the on-air correspondent for one of Dateline's most successful series, looks deeper into the world of child predators. So far, the Dateline series has led to the arrest of over 200 men and has shown that child predators can be anyone: even those who are the most trusted in the community, including rabbis and teachers. Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline NBC's ongoing "To Catch a Predator" series, with an average of 11 million viewers per episode.
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