I agree with Manda JO. Life’s too short. You shouldn’t take stupid risks, but I think we can risk sending kids to sleepovers. And I’m optimistic. I think people are basically strong enough to overcome things that may happen to them. So that even if sexual molestation does occur, the victims will be able to (eventually) get over it, and move on.
Does this mean that either your mother was trying to get rid of you, or that she figured that any freak eyeing your would figure that you weren’t worth abducting? Either way, my condolances. 
I went to high school in rural Maine, and my dad waited with me at the bus stop until I was old enough to drive to school. He wasn’t worried about me getting abducted, he was just tired of me missing the bus because the kids kept beating the shit out of me. 
so my mom is evil, eh?
i just go to friends houses as i please. well, i ask my mom first, then i go.
oh well. i practically live at my one friends house. it’s better than being home. if you’ve read some of my other posts, you know.
(ynh)
"(snip)Fire hazard you see. "
I actually knew a guy lost his trailer that way… everyone still kids him that it was just his way of never having to do laundry again.
no one was hurt, but they lost everydamnthing.
just my 2cents
Of course statistically, the most likely person to molest a child is its father or uncle.
Better off out on a sleepover than at home, where evil daddy can get his mits on them.
But logic has never been compatible with paranoia.
There is a reverse side to this whole sleep over business. A young niece of mine would sleep over at her dad’s place alternate weekends (her parents were divorced).
Those weekends my niece stayed over were the one time her step sister knew that she wouldn’t get molested by the step dad (my niece’s father - he wouldn’t touch his own kids!). I’m sure this is true for others out there too.
Not that its a good reason to send your kids out for a sleepover.
And if you didn’t let your child go to a sleepover and the cretin that nobody knows whose house he’ll strike does strike at your house? Is the “advisor” (aka Freaking Fool of the Century) going to tell you that you’re evil because you didn’t let your child go?
Well, she said it was because she had too many other kids to look after. But, ya know, Nixon said he wasn’t a crook.
:eek:
Sua
Sleepover at my place this weekend.
I think I’ll want to let my child have the best of both worlds: freedom to attend out of home events and total, secure safety.
Therefore, I’m going to let my child teleconference to his or her sleepovers.
I knew a guy who was really sheltered back in college when I used to work nights (midnight to 8). One day we were talking and he asked if it bothered me to work at night, so I told him that aside from sometimes being tired in day classes, it didn’t bother me at all.
He looked all horrified and asked how I’d get to work at night, so I told him it wasn’t a big deal, I usually took the bus, but sometimes I walked the 2 miles.
Then he freaked out and asked me what the hell was wrong with me that I would leave my apartment alone when it was ‘dark outside’ and didn’t I know that there were ‘all kinds of bad people.’ just waiting for me to go out there so that they could rob, rape, torture and kill me. He went on to say that he never, ever goes out after dark at all because it’s just ‘not safe’.
I felt … sorry for him.
Well, of all the dangers they could’ve focused on, sleepovers seem pretty mundane.
Then again, I have to admit that being a parent is terrifying…every time the little dumplings are out of sight, you start remembering one news story or another about a child who was snatched in broad daylight and never seen again, etc.
My son is 15 and does my paper route with me about 1/2 the time. He wants to get his own route–I would drop him off, go do my route, and pick him back up. It’s a good idea, decent neighborhoods, early morning, etc, so I’ll probably let him do it. BUT I will worry about leaving him to fend for himself (even if he is a foot taller than me). Someone could so easily drive by and decide to take a shot at him, or get the idea that he is carrying cash, or who-knows-what.
:eek: Maybe I won’t let him after all. . .
karol
Small arms training and concealed weapons.
No worries.
You are gonna molest me if I come over right? It just wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t. 
hey come one someone had to say it!
**Manda Jo ** If you don’t stop it, you are in danger of becoming one of my favorite posters. ( right next to Bo Duke!)
[way off course, sorta]
There was some doper here who knew of a fundie/evangelical family that home schooled their kids and were ultra paranoid of ‘outsiders’ and …well…you guessed it…the teenage girl “got herself knocked up.” If anyone dopers remember this, please advise me, I need closure on it.
[rant]My Darling Children ™ will never ride the bus here in Hooterville, not because of the Boogieman and his Legion of Crackwhores waiting to ensnare my children in an internet porno ring, but, *much more awful * they would be on the bus for 1.5 hours each frucking way. Some kids stand at their rescpective stops for a half hour waiting, when mommy or daddy could have driven them to school already. Oh wait, it’s better, they are usually standing outside with mommy sitting the SUV, waiting inside the car. It 's possibly twenty minutes total to school. [/rant]
Ok Maeglin, I’ll come to your sleepover…
But I’m not bringing my pajamas cause I don’t have any!
- nyet
Oh, and the only thing we were ever threatened with at sleepovers when I was a kid was one of my friends parents saying, " If you girls don’t pipe down I’m going to call your parents."
That, and chocolate overdose.
I was hoping you’d turn up, catsix. Don’t bother with the pajamas, just bring your guns.
Still wanna play with us, Edward?