[Lilly]

It's not easy but you have to let go. Keeping children indoors and wrapping them in cotton wool doesn't do anybody any favours. All you can do is make them aware of the dangers that are out there and hope they heed your advice. I worry about mine getting knocked down but I've taught them all I can about road safety and just have to hope they remember what I've said. Keeping them in all the time won't help as they'll just end up so cossetted I'll still be worrying about them getting knocked down when they're 25! I heard that the chances of something like one of them fallling into the clutches of a paedophile are actually very rare, despite the fact that it seems like it happens every day from what we hear on the news and read in the papers. These scenarios are no more common now than they were in the 60s, it just feels like it because the media has widened and they are reported on more. It's hard but we shouldn't let the stories we hear turn our children into anti-social hermits.