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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are fixating way too much on predators. Statistically, the risk predators attempt anything based on where you live and the fact you have children is minuscule. Minuscule as in negligible. However, crossing the road and being driven in a car are very dangerous activities. Falling down the stairs is also very dangerous, as in, statistically, a person in their lifetime has a high risk of falling and injuring themselves via a staircase. Predators? Not so much.

It's interesting how a lot of people have a very distorted sense of various risks.[/quote]

Not OP but I disagree. It's not that I think a predator would go to Nextdoor and then target my family or my child by finding us there. It's more that there are people in the world generally who are looking to exploit or hurt other people, and I don't see the point in giving them any assistance. It just seems practical not to.[/quote]

We are both right, PP. There's an acceptable continuum, and the extremes are crazy. I rarely post on Nextdoor, and have never talked about my kids. I'm not active on social media in general. But OP comes across as the textbook parent who has a specific fear of predators, and not a very good grasp of which risks she should be focusing on. I've seen it so many times on DCUM over the 10+ years I've been here. Generally it's the parents of very young kids who behave like this - because parents of older kids get some perspective and realize they've got more pressing things to worry about!

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