http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6261720/stick_figure_family_decals_and_school.html?cat=25

I wonder how many people even think about it. A theif or stalker can almost get your entire life story off your car windshield. They can get off your paring permits where you work, where you live, where you and your kids go to school. If you go to events which ones you go to. They can then piece this information together, well lets see they work at the local plant, and live at the ? apartments, their kids go to ? school which is have a game today. Or if you work at a utility company and you park in a shopping center. Next to a customer that just had their utilities turned off. Guess who’s car they are going to vandelise. Would appreciate any real life stories on this premise. And please be careful about how much information you put on your car for the whole world to see..

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When I worked as a quality assurance engineer my job was to find problems and when I left the office I continued finding problems. I found billboards with misspellings. Newspapers with poor grammar. Stuff in my life that was assembled wrong. And so forth. But the truth of the matter was that although these were “problems” for the common person, and on the grand scheme of things, they were inconsequential.

I think the quality of our life, and the ability for our children to grow up confident rather than afraid, out weights over the top paranoid reactions to events that have a low likelihood of ever happening to most people.

I am a scout leader and have been trained on child safety and protecting our children. I am a father of five. I want no harm to come to my children or anyone else’s. But like the woman who allowed her 9 year old to travel the subway alone, I want my children to live life to its fullest. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23935873/) I want them street smart but trusting because I believe by breeding trust we help make the problems go away. Don’t treat symptoms; treat problems. Ask the adults around you and I think you will find most of us lived as a child safely being away from home all day long and not abiding by any of the safety recommendations of this day and we all turned out okay. Using reasonable safety measures and common sense makes our children very safe today.

Yes, abductions are easy. So is drowning but that didn’t stop me from taking my children to the ocean and letting them have the time of their lives this summer.

I feel bad for the children Evie has had to help. They should have never been in such a predicament. Isn’t it true that most child abductions are by friends or family? or someone otherwise close to the victim? If so, the stickers really don’t make a difference do they? According to Duhaime.org, 75% of abductions are by friends or family (http://www.duhaime.org/LegalResources/PoliceStation/LawArticle-327/Child-Abduction.aspx) with most abductions being by a parent in a custody dispute.

Evie, you do not live in the real world. You live in a microcosm and broadcast it upon the real world. No insult intended.

This has nothing to do with paranoia! It has everything to do with taking off those rose colored glasses and seeing the world for what it is.

Just the other day I saw a set like this with the names beneath the images. On the right side was a sticker with the name of the grade school, on the left was the name of the boy’s little league team. In the mirror hung the ID badge for the mom who worked as a nurse at a local hospital. On the windshield was the husband’s military decal with his command location.

To the people condemning this blog and throwing around words like “paranoid”, can you step off the island of denial for a moment to realize how easy it is to abduct these children? Every bit of pertinent information schools ask when someone comes to pick up a child in the event of an emergency was right there on the outside of the vehicle.

And to the wise-arse who mentioned the car seat – most children over 6 use booster seats, and when the other parent is transporting them, the seat will be in use in a different vehicle. A carseat, also, does not name the child, the child’s school, the child’s extracaricular activities, or the mom or dad’s full name and work address!

Before you tell people they are paranoid for thinking of the safety of children, do a ride-along on a child abduction/rape case. Get educated before you insult those of us who live in the real world.