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Title: Protecting the Gift : Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) by Gavin De Becker ISBN: 0-440-50900-9 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (78 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be mandatory reading
Comment: This book has changed my entire perspective on daily living. I suggest it to any parents or even any women involved with children (I am making my mother read it as she does the majority of babysitting), I also suggest any person involved with any child at any time should read this book. If it were made to be mandatory reading I believe the crime rate would drop across the globe. I also believe the lessons in this book should be taught to children in school. "safety" should be a class as any other "math", "english" etc. out of all the lessons this would be the most valuable. Gavin writes in clear concise layman terms that don't leave you to ponder what he meant. I like the way he gives examples and walks you through each tragic event. (making them tragic helps you to remember). Starting these lessons today can greatly improve your childs future and I suggest anyone with any age child should read (my boy is 8 months old!) Definately worth every cent (and I paid $34 for it as I am in Canada!)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read!
Comment: As a retired federal law enforcement official and former instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia, I am familiar with Gavin De Becker and his Mosaic systems. So it should be no surprise that I rated "Protecting The Gift" at 5-stars. This one picks up right where "The Gift of Fear" left off. I was especially interested in his chapter on children at school. During my federal career I was intimately involved in training workers in how to deal with violence in the workplace. I also worked part time in youth programs and before it became popular, I was involved in helping public schools develop safety programs. Presently I am working in the "trenches" in a Northern Virginia high school as a Safety and Security Specialist. I help take the kids off the bus, I'm with them all day and I help put them on the busses at the end of the day. Gavin De Becker wrote MY book when he wrote Protecting The Gift. It is that good! It is a book that should be REQUIRED reading for all school administrators and parents. The part of the book that really gave me a "charge" came on page 21 where De Becker says "If we do all we can to protect children and invest them with a deep belief that they are safe, they will be less afraid, and thus less likely to be violent toward others." I have seen this in action. I have over 35 years as a practitioner in keeping people safe. This book by De Becker is a "a must read."
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazon says "a terrifying book"??
Comment: It's like that reviewer missed part of the point: being too fearful ADDS to danger; it doesn't reduce it. That's part of what sets this book so far apart from the others: it's not jam-packed with fearmongering horror stories. This book is the most sane, research-backed, well-written guide to keeping our children safe I have seen. It is so difficult to find the medium point between being appropriately cautious and living in paranoid fear. This book details clear, simple steps I can take to enhance the safety and wellbeing of my children- and myself- in all sorts of situations, today and in the long term. I am so thankful.
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Title: The Gift of Fear by GAVIN DE BECKER ISBN: 0440226198 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 11 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Fear Less: Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism by Gavin de Becker, Gavin de Becker ISBN: 0316085960 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 04 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls by Ellen B. Snortland ISBN: 0971144702 Publisher: Lightning Source Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: My Body Is Private by Linda Walvoord Girard, Rodney Pate, Walvoord Girard, Kathleen Tucker ISBN: 0807553190 Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do? (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book) by Linda Walvoord Girard, Linda Walvoord Girard, Abby Levine ISBN: 0807590169 Publisher: Concept Books Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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