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Originally Posted by morethanpretty
Another thing, don't let your children go to the bathroom by themselves even at 12-13. Its a safety issue, kids get molested in public restrooms.
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I'm with you on everything except this one. A 12-year-old will have plenty of other times when they are not with their parents, not just in the bathroom. They are more than old enough to understand what is common public behavior and what is an attack on them, and ought to have the confidence to use basic defense techniques of screaming, hitting, and/or running. If they don't, then
that's poor parenting.
Several years ago, there was a kidnapping of a teen girl that happened to be caught on surveillance video. The male stranger walked up to her, took her arm, and simply led her into his car with little to no effort. She was completely cowed and did not try to fight back in any way. He had no weapon, and you could clearly see the fear on her face; she knew exactly what was happening. Yet she went along. Spend too much time protecting your little snowflakes--and attending them in the bathroom when they're almost a teenager--and they won't know what to do when something dreadful does happen to them.