Parent Sense on Halloween: a free gift from Imaginif

Imaginif gives you a once off safe treat to celebrate Halloween. FREE gift. Download a 12 page protective play tutorial, jam packed with games and activities designed to keep your kids safe. FREE gift link is at the end of this post.

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The origin of Halloween describes Halloween’s move from Pagan to Christian to commercial. Scores of children dressed in costume, often taking on the image of things scary and forbidden, may tonight cross the boundary of your castle and demand your sweet obedience or they will turn you into a toad. Poof! [Megan hops away with a tadpole tail between her warty frog's legs]

Despite the historical and opposing religious influences of the day, Halloween remains a day where the dead are remembered. Skeletons, ghosts, ghouls, zombies and vampires (okay, the undead too) will shake their images in our eyes and ensure that we feed their souls with the respect of a sweet life. On Halloween we are asked to remember the souls of those gone before us and to seek guidance from them.

Bah humbug…I’d rather feed the sweet life to something living and something with a tangible future: our children. Thousands of living, costumed Halloween predators feed off our children daily. Dressed in clothes that make them look like everybody else, they act as though they are angels. They trick our kids into accepting treats and convince our kids to keep their mouth’s shut, to not tell anyone of the special bond between the predator and child. They are Gorilla fighters, domestic terrorists, and we fail to recognise them because they are so well entrenched in our society.

Why does prevention of child abuse and the fight against domestic terrorism not have the commercial support of the corporate world? There are few global monoliths that support prevention of child abuse. There are, in percentage, few small businesses or even individuals ready to step up to the mark and commit to resourcing the eradication of child predators. Oh that we could dispose of child predators like we do the celebration of Halloween.

Child predators are everywhere. They look just like you and I. They are your neighbours, your spouse, your sibling, parents, friends preacher, teacher or civic leader. They have infiltrated the sanctity of your castle and your children are their targets – not just today, on Halloween, but on every day of the year.

Knowledge and vigilance is the job of we parents. Looking out for our children, looking out for the children of our communities, looking out for child safety and child protection in our global existence. Looking out requires a framework of what to look for and what to do. Do you know what to do to keep your child safe from those domestic terrorists?

Before your children venture out to have a fun filled evening, I urge you to educate yourself about how super easy it is to drop protective comments into conversations and everyday play. Research supports that child safety is greatly increased when carers are able to seamlessly weave protective play into daily life.

This is Parent’s Sense – something that every parent really should have – Imaginif’s Halloween gift to parents everywhere: Parent Sense. May the power of the Sense be with you. Have a happy and safe Halloween.

Article by Megan Bayliss

 

 

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