All of us want our children to be safe. And when a child goes missing it is every parent’s WORST nightmare. The parents of a missing child live with persistent heartache and uncertainty over the fate of their missing child.
May 25th, 2011 marks National Missing Children’s Day in the United States—a day to honor those dedicated to finding missing children and to the safety of all children.
May 25th is a day of hope, yet every day in the United States thousands of children go missing.
What can YOU do?
Get involved in your local neighborhood watch programs and learn how to be more vigilant in your community.
Enroll your child in a stranger danger workshop to learn the basic fundamentals of stranger danger awareness. At Samurai Karate Studio, we have integrated stranger danger into our curriculum and we practice it all the time. I also cover this topic in FREE workshops nearly every quarter and in the local schools.
Donate to a wonderful children's program like The Polly Klaas Foundation! This foundation was created by parents of a girl who was abducted and killed and is doing really great work in helping to find and protect missing children.
Most importantly, the greatest deterrent to your child being abducted, is if you, the parent or guardian, keep them next to you and/or within your site all the time. No matter how much you teach your children about stranger danger, they're at their safest when an adult is always present and ready to protect.
Sometimes the best defense, is going on the offensive and being aggressive with your child's protection. So, don't let them out of your sight!
My heart goes out to those parents with a missing child and I will certainly say a prayer for their safe return.
And thanks to the work of The Polly Klaas Foundation and others like it, for making a difference!
If you would like more information about our stranger danger curriculum at Samurai Karate Studio, please feel free to contact me at 803-462-9425 or samuraikarate@bellsouth.net.
Sensei Chris Feldt
Samurai Karate Studio
www.samuraikaratestudio.net 
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