Common Sense - 09-18-09

Ok, today I want to talk about something I saw yesterday. Now I need to start this by saying I don't agree with child molesters, and I think they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Also, I would never wish anything to happen to any child, but shouldn't parents use their common sense with their kids?
Right now there is an RV show going on in Hershey, so that draws people in from all over the country, and in some cases the world. Yesterday there were several parents, mostly mothers, who were here with their children of different ages. The two biggest problems I noticed yesterday were 1. parents not watching their kids, and 2. the way the kids were dressed.
Parents not watching their kids and letting them wonder off to where ever they want to go in a public place like Hershey isn't always safe. I know that the Hershey entertainment complex over 100 cameras hidden throughout it, but I"m sure most parents don't. So if you are letting your child run free and not watching them, someon could grab them and be gone beofre you even notice what happened. To me its just common sense to watch your children, and keep them safe. BUt I guess not alll parents see it that way.
I know there were several times where kids came runnig up the path, and around the corner, which puts them out of the view of their parents. Then in some cases it was as much as ten minutes later until the parents finally come around. I've heard of cases where the parent only turned their back for a few seconds and the child was gone.
The other thing I wanted to talk aobut is the way parents let their children dress these days. Now I know that some kids change clothes after they leave, and the parents don't know about it. But in these cases they parents are with the children. There were kids, some only todlers, that were dressed way inappropriately. When a child has on short skirt, and skimpy tops, that just draws people's attention to it. There was one child yesterday that looked like a preteen that had on shorts that said "hot stuff" on them, and a shirt that said "porn star" on the front. WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE IS THIS SENDING PEOPLE???
If you let your child wear that when you are around, when they get older and start wearing things with out your knowledge, what are they going to wear? Again shouldn't common sense tell you not to let you kids wear stuff like this, and to protect them. If some sicko out there sees this, and decides they are atracted to your child, and they you let run around unsupervised, what is going to happen. Most likely they are going to get attacted.
When this happens is the parent going to take any of the blame? No it will all fall on the sicko how did what they did. Just once I would like to see a court case against both the person who did the crime and the parents. THen maybe parents would wake up.
Common Sense should tell us to protect our children. They are the future of this country. IF we keep letting them do what they want, we are going to destroy our future. Please wake up and help protect your own family, and encourage your friends and neighbors to do the same.

Like always please feel free to post any comments you have. I just ask that you use your common sense before posting.