Today’s words of wisdom from my husband: “No parent can child-proof the world. A parent’s job is to world-proof the child.” He discusses how we can go about doing this in the following post…

Have you world-proofed your children?

Protecting our children is one of the primary jobs of parenthood, and the list of dangers seems to be growing exponentially.

• There is BPA in your bottled water and hormones in your meat.
• There are predators on the Internet and cyber-bullies on social media.
• There are addictive drugs and addictive video games.
• There are terrorists hijacking our planes and the TSA hijacking our dignity.

It makes you long for the days when seesaws and merry-go-rounds were still allowed on playgrounds.

The fact is that new dangers are popping up every day, and it is impossible for even the most vigilant parents to keep up with them all.

That doesn’t mean you can’t protect your children. It just means that doing so will become increasingly complex and require some added intentionality.

There are three general principles that can help guide the process: (continue reading…)