Today I attended a Child Safety Conference, thanks to the local government here in good ole' Alabama. I was actually dreading it at first, the main reason we attended was to gather more information about covering our local church as well as state churches through different liability cases and issues. Yadda Yadda Yadda, the main speaker was the lead FBI special agent on the Elizabeth Smart abduction case, how cool is that. I came home with so much info. on child abduction, internet safety, and child pornography, plus official FBI hand books on all that stuff. It was cool jive! Now I must take this new found knowledge, and shape it in to the church's role! This should be a no-brainer, but if you have any children 18 and under, then you need to know EVERYTHING about their internet use. Oh yea, no computers in their rooms either, put them in the center of the house. If they have something they want to hide or make private, then that could very well be an open door to chaos. Don't agree with me, then let me sit down with you for a minute and show you how many teens get abducted a year via the internet. I sound so adult in this BLOG! Here are some cool sites for you to reference. A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety NetsSmartz Relevant quote of the day.... "A church trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting several parents and young children. People who attended Saturday's performance at the Pa. church, quoted performers as saying, "There is no Easter bunny," and described the show as being a demonstration of how Jesus was crucified. Um, there has got to be a better way than that of portraying Easter ..."