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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I trust my dad with my kid.  What I don't understand is how a former parent of young children could possibly do this w/o realizing that it's necessary to give the parent a head's up.  He did not understand at all why I was upset and thought I blew things out of proportion.[/quote]

Because when he was raising you, the general assumptions were different.  It may have been just as dangerous, but we were much more naive as a culture then about the dangers and people just thought that if he was with a relative like a grandfather, it was okay.  Your father raised you in a very different age and with different expectations.

What you do now, is calm down and the next time you get a chance to talk with your dad in person, you explain that now the world is different than when he raised you and that parents need to be more cautious.  You explain that the dangers of children wandering off and disappearing are more worrisome and that you'd like him to just give you a heads up that he's taking his grandchild off for a walk or whatever before they go so that you don't worry when you don't see your child for a few minutes.  [/quote]

Excepted world isn't more dangerous. There is less violence than there was and abductions by strangers while on a walk with grandpa are well ...never happened that I know of. The only thing that is happened is that parents have gotten crazy about 'stranger danger' because every time anything happens it is played repeatedly and ad nauseum on the news and online and that makes it seem like it is happening all the time everywhere. Helicopter blades whirring mightily are the issue - not the fact that a grandfather went for a walk with his grandchild. [/quote]

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