“Parents are just bad at risk assessment” says author Christie Barnes and mother of four. In her book “The Paranoid Parents Guide”, she claims parents constantly overestimate rare dangers while underestimate common ones.
Well what is she referring to? Most parents feel strongly that they do make right choices and would feel very offended if questioned about their care. Those protective, instinctual urges rise up like hairs on the back of one’s neck.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the five things most likely to cause injury to children up to the age of 18 are : car accidents, homicide usually at the hands of someone they know, child abuse, suicide or drowning.
