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Safety skills for children outside the home
Warning signs of sexual abuse
How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools
Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence

All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to believe, what to doubt, what to fear, and what not to fear. In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior and author of the monumental bestseller The Gift of Fear, offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level, giving you the tools you need to allow your kids freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring and compassion, he shatters the widely held myths about danger and safety and helps parents find some certainty about life's highest-stakes questions:

How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be someone who harms my child? (see page 103)
What should I ask child-care pr

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      Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
      Publication Date: 09/05/2000
      ISBN13: 9780440509004, 978-0440509004
      ISBN10: 0440509009
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      Peace studies and conflict resolution

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Safety skills for children outside the home
      Warning signs of sexual abuse
      How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools
      Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence

      All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to believe, what to doubt, what to fear, and what not to fear. In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior and author of the monumental bestseller The Gift of Fear, offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level, giving you the tools you need to allow your kids freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring and compassion, he shatters the widely held myths about danger and safety and helps parents find some certainty about life's highest-stakes questions:

      How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be someone who harms my child? (see page 103)
      What should I ask child-care pr

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