Watch your children in public!

[happylabs]

Yes, these creeps are out there. I think I held my daughter's hand at the mall until she was 12! I was a paranoid over-protective mom. My daughter was a real stinker too when we would go shopping she would hide in the clothing racks sometimes. My son was the opposite. He pretty much stayed with us when we would go shopping to Walmart or the mall.

It scares me to death these days because parents do not seem to hold their children's hands. So often in the town I work in I see parents walking with the little ones 10 feet behind them!

Hopefully with security cameras being used more and more it will deter these jerks.

[Laura's Babies]

There were video cameras that showed the man going into that lane but you couldn't see him or the boy, then it showed him walking rather fast away from there. They looked at all the stores video and the man was in there with a woman and child and left with them.

The boy told the police he was looking at those new wrist bands and the man told him they had plenty more of them in the elsectronics dept and asked him to go back there to look at them with him. The boy told the man "no!". (A bathroom was back there close to the electronics dept.)

I was always accused of being a over-protective mom but that did not bother me at all.

[Husky_mom]

I´m a hawk momma too.. and I also tend to dress him in bright colors whenever we are out..

hey.. I don´t even let him go to the WC by himself.. lol.. he kinda hates going with me to the ladies room.. but as I tell him I can´t go over there and you sure can come over here.. no way I´m letting him in there by himself.. who knows who´s in there...

[Asiel]

That is scary. I was one of those overprotective moms too. My kids always had to hold my hand when they were old enough to walk around instead of being in the basket. And they knew better than to even look at another aisle...if something caught their eye I would go check it out with them.

[Catlady711]

A friend of mine recently went to the mall and saw a boy, perhaps 5-7 years old just sitting alone on the curb at night. She and her husband talked to the boy for a moment then convinced him to wait for his dad inside the store. When the dad finally showed up he apparently didn't seem ruffled bothered a bit by the kid being out there alone and seemed to think my friend and her husband were 'meddling' in things. She said the kid looked like he's waited like that before and didn't seem to think anything was unusual.

Sorta makes you wonder if some people aren't trying to get their kids stolen on purpose!