Thanks for posting it.

IF you are in such a sketchy location.

I am not trying to say such locations and situations do not exist. They most certainly do, and as I stated, this video shows some great ideas to protect your child.

I just hope we can return to some semblance of sanity when it comes to the 'scare the parents into spending more and being afraid of everything' ritual that gets practiced hourly in this country. There are a lot of people getting very rich over what amounts to nothing more than fear mongering, and that should not be happening at the level that it is.

That's all.

After she was about 4 it wasn't that much of a problem but from the time she could walk, she would try to stand up on the little seat, jump down and take off. Sometimes she hurt herself but it did not faze her one bit

Remind me again how many hundreds of toddlers are kidnapped from grocery stores every day?

Twenty-five years from now that child will be crying for Mommy at a simple traffic stop.

And to think, I rode the public bus in Utica, NY in the 1950s by myself. Alone. Always made it home safely. And yes, things are different today, but again, I'm trying to recall all the reports of kidnapped children and utterly failing.

to see the orthodontist the next morning. It is 60 miles one way and there was a stop halfway to allow transfers to a local busline which was an opportunity to get off at the wrong place and really mess things up.

I spent the night with my aunt, went to the orthodontist the next morning. Because my aunt had to work on Saturdays, I spent the entire afternoon roaming downtown Nashville by myself until the bus left to go back to Guthrie at 5:30. I did lots of window shopping, roamed all the bookstores, ate lunch, went to movies - in other words I had an absolute blast! I got my very first political pin in 1960 (JFK/LBJ) which I still have. This continued until I was about 15 and got my retainers and only went every 3 months.

I can't believe my dad was OK with this, but he probably thought I was hanging out in his sister's office all day - my mom knew better. (she knew I was probably hanging out at Mills Bookstore anyway)

As a Boomer I am part of the last generation (outside of cities with good public transportation) that really got to have that kind of freedom, and that makes me sad for the following generations. Mr YD spent a lot of his young years at Camp LeJuene NC and he roamed all over the place by himself. When our daughter was the same age he was hesitant to let her go alone to a friend's house to play and we could see the house from our front yard. That is how much things have changed.

Of course, one result of all this was that it never bothered me to go into a restaurant by myself or go to the movies alone. I had many adult women friends who would not do that.

And now, nearby perverts know that their victim has an air tag. She should have put that on the child while they were still in the car.

The carabiner idea is good, because it also protects a child from falling out of the cart.

Aside from that, she has several things to learn about self-defense. One of which is, never strap yourself to a heavy object, because you might have to run in an emergency.