As a parent there isn’t anything that would stop you from making certain your children keep safe at all times. It’s your responsibility to keep them fed, bathed, clothed, and sheltered. When they leave your sight to venture through the doors of your home out into the world village, you pray for them and hope that their guardian angels are watching.
When you take your toddler out with you to go grocery shopping, in a moment you turn to find her and she is gone! You panic, and can hardly breathe. Seconds later you spot her down another aisle playing with an item taken from one of the store shelves. When your children get old enough to go out and play on their own, you hope they remember to look right, left, then right again before they cross the street.
When your children reach their teens it’s a whole new monster. Pressures from their peers may weigh heavily upon them, and you hope the lessons taught in the home are not lost on them once they are presented substances that would be unsafe to their bodies, minds, and spirits. Popularity contests are fierce, and weekend parties may consist of a crowd that you’d rather your youth didn’t associate with. Ventures into immoral traps may be their initiation into a clan that leads them down darkening paths.
Upon reaching adulthood you have much less influence on your now-grown children. Routines are shaped and patterns are in place. There are forces both seen and unseen that act on our children as they advance through the stages of life and pass by the significant mileposts. Sometimes don’t you want to just somehow be invisible and watch what they do in a certain scenarios, and to see if they have developed the integrity to be their own person as opposed to blending in and just being part of the crowd?
It’s nice that we can check in and stay in touch with our children thanks to technologies that are so convenient and relatively inexpensive. A brief call or a text or instant message sets our minds at ease, and lets them know they are in our thoughts. And in the event our children are unlawfully taken from us by kidnapping, there is also a survival method that can track them and help the police in their rescue much like On Star detects and tracks an accident with an automobile.
Coming full circle– now back to the beginning: we feed, bathe, clothe, and shelter our children. As parents we wish to bestow upon them every good gift. How far would we go for their safekeeping and security? Let us take every opportunity afforded us to provide for their well being and keep them safe from harm. The ability to track them should they be taken from us is something that every parent who has had an Amber Alert sent out for their child would wish they had. Take advantage of this miraculous emergency preparedness technology, and prevent the unfathomable heartache of an abducted child.
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