Yesterday I was walking the little puppy around the cul-de-sac when I saw Jorja walking across the street to join me. No Daddy anywhere so I asked her if Daddy knew she was out walking with me. She said 'no.' Uh-oh. As we started to walk back to the house I noticed the other two dogs loose in the front yard. Jorja said 'oops.' By now I'm rather unhappy. Luckily one of the dogs was happy to see me and ran right up to me. One down, one to go. The other one didn't realize I was there until I was very close so he just made a dash for the back yard. Disaster averted.
My husband and I sat her down to have a little chat - again - about safety issues. I don't know how to better explain it to her than to say "what if a stranger had found you before I did?" And did she look when she crossed the street? I doubt it. She simply assumes, as children do, that nothing bad ever happens to them. Why should it? It hasn't ever happened yet, right? How do you explain to a child that it only takes once to have something horrible happen??
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