{"id":771210,"date":"2010-03-11T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/03\/11\/the-safe-side\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:39:00","slug":"the-safe-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/03\/11\/the-safe-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Safe Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned before that every Thursday my homeschool group meets for Bible Study at church.&nbsp; The kids are in their own class, where the first hour is devoted to homework and the second hour is free\/structured play.&nbsp; After our meeting, we all meet in the church courtyard for lunch and the kids play in the courtyard and playground for the rest of the afternoon.&nbsp; It is an excellent time for the kids to play with friends of different ages and genders, in a safe setting.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks, however, an uncomfortable thing occurred.&nbsp; We discovered that there was a man in a car scoping out a couple of the girls that were skating around the buildings.&nbsp; One of the cafe&nbsp;volunteer noticed him and as she went to approach him, he took off.<\/p>\n<p>Today, my friend Christie, brought a DVD to show the kids.&nbsp; The cafe was kind to let us use their big screen TV.&nbsp; This DVD was an excellent way to introduce &quot;stranger danger&quot; to kids without inflicting fear.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t recommend this enough.&nbsp; It was funny, entertaining, yet highly educational, and created a comfortable sequeway to discuss safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>You can get information on this DVD at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesafeside.com\/?gclid=CKPJ5JiJsqACFRgsawodhSUfUA\">The Safe Side.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned before that every Thursday my homeschool group meets for Bible Study at church.&nbsp; The kids are in their own class, where the first hour is devoted to homework and the second hour is free\/structured play.&nbsp; After our meeting, we all meet in the church courtyard for lunch and the kids play in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}