Plans to protect children from peadolphiles........dvd for 6yrs and above, what do we all think?

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In the news today, the government have released plans to protect children from predators/peadophiles. Within their plans, they have detailed a behavioural analysis unit to try to determine how a peadophile thinks (too little too late imo, surley this type of work has been carried out everytime a peadophile is caught?).
Also they are planning to release a cartoon dvd which is aimed at the children to show them how to spot a child predator. Im all for this and will be definitely letting my dc watch it. Although it is disturbing at times apparently. Its such a shame that we have to show our dc the dangers in the world in order to protect them.
What do the rest of you think?

What sort of video is "protecting the gift"?

sounds like a chastity thing

another article about the dvd

i would be afraid of parents showing this to their DCs and thinking it absolved them of any responsibility of educating their DCs re 'stranger danger'

you don;t have to show your DCs the danger of the world to protect them IMO, you gently educate them and help to keep them safe without leading them to beleive all strangers and all men, as i presume this DVD will not cast a woman as an abuser, are potential child rapists.

haychee, I know you took those figures at face value but the idea that the authors can find "abuse" where the "victims" were unaware of it is absurd. It has persuaded me that I will never again give money to the NSPCC, as they seem to have funded this so called study.

The little I have read about that cartoon gives an example "chapter One tackles abuse at the leisure centre. Nathan and Jordan watched as one character, a sports teacher, encouraged another, a pupil of their age, to change his football kit in front him..."

Surely any teacher or sports coach who encourages children to hurry up and change will now be suspect? Is this not stirring up unnecessary paranoia?

Very possibly upwind, creating paranoia etc.
But in my case with my daughter i think its appropriate.

I think it also helps/educates (more likely) parents who think there are insignificant risks. The risks may well be minimal but not insignificant.

It is sad, how further down a poster described a man who was taken into the police station for questioning just because he asked 2 young girls, quite innocently, if they had seen his missing dog. So the increased paranoia already exists.
2 young girls where approached not that long ago in my area by a man who was asking for help to find his dog, who he believed to be in a thick wooded area and would the two girls help him look.
The trouble is there is such a fine line between normal/innocent strangers and those who may be inclined to do harm. How can children be expected to know one from another? In an ideal world, we shouldnt have to teach our children about stranger danger etc. We should be able to leave our doors unlocked/open. We should be able to let our children play out carefree. But i just dont see that any of these things are an option in todays sad grim society.

Chances are that man had genuinely lost his dog!

Last time I walked through a thickly wooded area, alone, I encountered a very flustered looking man who enquired if I had seen a husky. It never occurred to me that he might have ulterior motives as I wished him luck in finding his dog. They do tend to run off given the chance!

Similarly a man stopped me on a dark lonely street last night. He was a lost tourist and pathetically grateful for the directions I gave him. It seems really miserable to me that, had I been instilled with this fear and paranoia as a child I might have panicked when approached by these strange men.

I am very slight and young looking btw and can still pass for a teenager.

The school sent out letters after the man had approached the girls last summer, to all parents, warning us to be on our guard. So either the police had been involved and suspected a sinister motive from this man or the school themselves have created the unecessary paranoia.

Either way, do i want to take the risk of letting my 7yr old dd out to play with friends? Do i let her go? Do i keep her in forever more? Or do i educate her (bearing in mind i have already described the dangers, she is aware madeleine mccann, and how children have gone missing and she continues to be incredibly fearless)?

Ill just add that my dd, isnt aware that m.mccann went missing from her bed, just that she is missing.

i agree the best way to educate your children is to keep the lines of communication open. i tell mine that nothing is secret if they need to tell someone whether its something done or said to them or whether its a friend confiding in them about something. DD doesnt gossip but she has confided in me when she thought her friend was saying strange things.

i'm with olive - the chances are slim - usually a family member or someone they know anyway who sexually abuses them

they should be microchiped - the peadophiles.

Tortured more like!!