I was just reading a Friends post about her 3 yr old getting lost at a park. I just have to say, that like her, my worst nightmare is something bad happening to my children. I probably seem over bearing in a lot of ways. But let me say this, I am DETERMINED to keep my children safe. They are my LIFE. Everything else can come and go. I could not go on without my Babies.
Lat school year, Elizabeth's bus stop was out our back door. I loved being able to watch her without having to go outside. It made it easy to take care of the other 2 girls and not neglect Elizabeth's safety.
This year, for INSANELY stupid reasons, her bus stop has moved about 1 yard to the corner. It's almost no difference at all, yet it's just far enough that I can no longer see her from our apartment. It has been really nice having David around, because I INSIST on one of us walking her to her bus stop, and standing with her until she is on the bus. After it pulls away, we go home. A pain when I'm here by myself. But I know that my children INSIDE are safe, and i would hate to not be with her ONE time, and never see her again.
I don't go and get her from the bus stop because I figure that there is only a 5 minute window between when I hear the bus pull up until she should be at the door. Whereas in the morning, it would be 8 hours before I would be expecting her.
Anyway, My children are in my line of sight every second of every day that I can manage. At the store, every single one of them is in or on the shopping cart in some way. I hear stories of children wandering off in the store. That will not be my child. Not even Elizabeth walks. Paranoid??? I couldn't care less!!! They're safe and not getting into trouble. When we go places, we almost always take the double stroller and I have Jacob and Abby strapped in, with my older girls holding on.
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just letting you know I found you ;)
I do the same things in the store. But there comes a time when they need a bit of responsibility. The other day I was at the check stand and I sent Audrey and Hailey back to the cereal Isle to get the cereal we forgot. I was anxious the whole 3 minutes they were gone but they were together and they are almost 8. So it was fine. They loved the responsibility.
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