Two things have caused me to pause and think about, "how safe are my kids?" I was at a local library recently and the kids quickly grabbed books and computers to play games (not internet accessible) while I walked around wondering what I'd like to look at for the hour we had planned to be there. I checked out the kids movies for movie night and then not finding anything I was interested in I picked up a book sitting on the top shelf. You know, it was displayed because it was a new release, trying to catch your attention. I started reading it and I was interested in it because it was the kind of book I would have read around 11-13 years old. It was about a girl who moved around a lot and had a hard time making friends. She made a new friend and her friend was quite different. The more I read the story the stranger it became and then I figured out what was going on. The step dad and 12 or 13 year old had something going on and they were EXTREMELY graphic about it!!!!!!! Please be careful what your kids are reading in the public library. It was more than disturbing. If Rebekah or Emily had read that book I would be horrified, it was pornography. I asked the librarian if she had read it and the reply was, "No, but that author visited our library." I told her what I read and she gave me a form letter to file a complaint and ask for the book to be removed. I used to check books out for the kids quite frequently. Looks like we have to go back to that practice. This world is not our home! The Bible says to not be conformed to this world. We need to be vigilant in fighting for our kids to be raised without this kind of influence.
The second incident happened in Wal-mart in Fargo on Sunday night. We were on our way home from fellowship and I had forgotten something at Wal-mart on a previous visit and went to customer service to get it. Four of the kids had to go to the bathroom so they came in with me. It took me less than 2 minutes to pick my item up and wait for the kids outside the bathrooms. The three boys came out together and were agitated. They told me how a man with a red mohawk said, "Hey, kid, you have any money." to each of them. Well, after we got in the van and the kids were describing what they were doing and what he said to each of them and how they responded it turned out there was a second guy blocking the doorway. They didn't know the two guys were together until after Kevin went into the store to see if they were still in the bathroom. The two guys walked right by the van and that's when Isaac said that the one guy was in front of the door. He moved away from the door when they said they didn't have any money. All of the kids were shaken up by the incident and Rebekah was scared in the night of kidnappers. Nothing happened in there but sometimes I let them go all the way to the bathroom when I'm clear across the store. I'll be more careful in the future about this too. It gave us some discussion on how do you handle this kind of thing. I told them to start yelling for their mom! I wonder what those guys would have done then? I did tell the first employee about them because I didn't want them harassing anyone else. I don't know what else I should have done.
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