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Originally Posted by ronaldo
Yeah, there's also a fine line between protecting your children and not letting them do anything at all out of risk they may get hurt.
If you won't let your kids do anything because you're not 100% sure they'll be safe, lock 'em up in the house and home school them. The worrying never ends.
You worry when they go to school, when they ride their bikes, when they go swimming, when someone else is driving them around....
You take the best precautions you can and let them live. Otherwise you're kids will grow up sheltered and entirely unprepared for the real world. When they get older, they have to be able to make their own mistakes and learn from them.
They're kind of like people that way.
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Ok, I agree with you completely. The point I was trying to make was a little different than that. That is why I stated "cared for properly". I must admit to being a little over-protective of my daughter, who is 11. But, she has been riding motorcycles all her life (she is taught safety, and supervised) participates in cheerleading, which is actually fairly dangerous (again safety and supervision), and many other things. The key here is safety and supervision. From what I gather in Chase's post, these are her main concerns. If I did not feel my child would be cared for properly, and supervised appropriately, they would not go....no matter who it is with.
Edited to add: These children are almost 2 and 4...not even close to old enough to care for themselves in the slightest bit.