1. To begin, I suggest you read the Real Predators page on this site. To do so, go to the button marked 'Real Predators' and click to go. Please read the entire page. After you have read it, please return here.
2. Now that you have read the Real Predators page, you understand a little of the problems your kids face on line and in local clubs.
I know ... you are saying to yourself ... 'NOT MY KID!'
'I have discussed all this with my kids.'
'I have told them to stay out of Chat Rooms.'
'They know not answer or down load anything from e-mails sent by people they don't know.'
'I have told them never to give their address or phone to anyone on the computer.
I use the parental controls and block rooms and e-mails.'
'My child is intelligent. He or she would never believe this trash. My child does not lie. My child is mature for his other age. My child listens, understands and never lies to me.'
'This crap happens to others not my kid.'
'My kid isn't wild, isn't a Goth, I know where my child goes. We get on well together, me and my kids, this can't happen in my house.'
I am so sorry to have to be the one to tell you, but you are wrong. It can happen to your child.
The Oprah Winfrey Show, did an on camera experiment. One day they put a male in a park with instructions to go up to some kids and do all he could to get them to walk out of the small park with him.
They dressed this male in a suit and told him to use any ploy to get the kids to go with him. Then they contacted parents who where very sure their children would not go.
Parents who had talked to their kids. Parents who showed them videos, who had police talk to them in school. Parents who had even given their children code words in case they ever had to send someone to pick those kids up after school without first telling the kids of a change in plans.
These parents where given a challenge.
Let your kids play in the park, pretend not to be paying attention to them and let's see if your kids would go off with a stranger.
These parents willingly took the challenge.
Certain that their kids would not go off with a stranger for any reason.
Their children had been instructed on what to do if approached and how to get away.
The awful and shocking truth was, 4 out of the 5 kids willing walked out of the park with a strange man they had met only seconds before.
All where lured out of the park in 3 to 5 minutes.
The parents where shocked and horrified at how easy it was for this well dressed, clean cut stranger to lure their kids away.
You're probably saying to yourselves much the same thing here. 'My child is to old to believe this crap.'
'My kid has been warned about this.'
'My child is not a baby but 9, 10, 15, 16 and is an intelligent, street smart kid.'
'No way my kid would be so stupid or fall for this crap.'
But, sadly, most of you are as wrong as 4 out of 5 of those parents of the kids on Oprah's show.
Many of you have no idea how lonely or unloved your kids feel.
How different they feel.
How many of them are almost friendless at school, feel like geeks or nerds, laughed at picked on or ignored by other kids at school and in your own neighborhoods and towns.
So many young children 9 through 17 feel different, feel the outsider, feel they have no friends, feel their parents do not love them or do not give them credit for being able to make their own decisions.
You may really believe your child would not lie to you, but they do.
I cannot tell you how many times I am on this computer at 2 or 3 am and get Instant Messaged by a 9 year old, a 14 year old, a 16 year old. A kid, on their computer, in the privacy of their bedroom.
They are awake at this hour, talking to me, when you think they are safely sleeping.
They are also talking to others. People claiming to be Vampires.
People telling your children they should leave home and run away.
People telling them that they will take care of them, protect them from you.
People telling your kids that they will care for them, protect them, love them, let them do as they want whenever they want.
People telling your daughters they love them. Telling these young girls they can be made beautiful and stay that way for all time. That everyone will love them, that they will be popular, beautiful, ageless and that they can do it without your rules.
People asking for and getting their and your phone numbers, home addresses, personal family information.
People talking to your children about sex.
People trying to persuade YOUR child to meet them.
People claiming to be children themselves.
People talking to your children while you are asleep or at work or while they are on their friend's computer.
Many of you allow your children their own computers, or a separate Screen Name ... you respect their privacy and never go in there.
You never really see to whom your young ones are speaking or sending pictures to over the Web.
Your child faces very real danger each time he or she signs on to the computer. And your young teens do so as well each time they go to a club or agree to go and meet a online friend in person.
If you have indeed just read Real Predators, you have just seen what did happen to lots of kids about the same ages as your kids.
But what you do not know is how your kids are writing to theses people. Your children are leaving personal ads on the Internet and World Wide Web. Your kids are seeking out these people and your kids are offering to DO anything to meet them, to talk with them and to be made a Vampire by them.
You do not want to believe this, but it is true.
There are online, hundreds of sites that are personal message services. Want ads and personals for Goths and Vampires and those who seek them out. YOUR children are writing these people, your KIDS are emailing these people. Your kids are leaving their own free personal ads to be read by these people.
These sites are international and more than children also read and post ads on these contact pages.
Your children are reading their ads and they are reading the ads left by your kids.
All ages, adults and children and your kids willingly give these people their and your cell phone numbers, pager numbers, home and work phone numbers and street addresses.
And sometimes get these peoples' phone numbers and addresses, as well.
It is your kids who leave messages for these people, begging, yes, begging and pleading to be made into vampires. It is your kids who say they will do anything, go anywhere to meet these people.
And its your kids, and kids just like your kids, who are being contacted by these people, sent money and plane tickets, along with invitations and instructions to meet these people.
Take a few minutes now to look at the ads left by all ages on just one of these contact sites.
