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Moms Talk: Paranoid Parenting

How do you teach caution and awareness without creating fear?

This week we are talking about paranoid parenting.

How do we teach our kids about stranger danger, food safety or any other subject that gives us parents nightmares in a way that doesn’t do the same for our kids?  With all of the things we see in the headlines, such as kidnappings, chokings, drowning and worse, it is a wonder we let our kids out of our sight! How do you teach caution and awareness without creating fear?

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