| Moms, your gut feelings are correct and you have | | | | following your gut feelings will protect you from verbal, |
| permission to trust your instincts. As a Personal Safety | | | | mental, emotional and physical attack. |
| Trainer since 1999, I know the most important thing for | | | | Why Do We Disregard Our Born-In Safety Feature? |
| anyone's safety is to acknowledge, trust and follow | | | | Women have been raised to be polite, get along and |
| their gut feelings. These are instincts we were born | | | | avoid making waves. This is dangerous because our |
| with and their job is to keep us alive. We have them | | | | gut feeling may tell us: |
| about every person, place and situation in our lives. | | | | - To leave a situation as soon as possible yet we stay |
| Gut feelings will protect you and your children much | | | | to avoid making anyone feel uncomfortable. |
| better than you can. | | | | - Our parents are unsuitable babysitters but we allow it |
| Moms are extra tuned-in to their instincts because their | | | | because we don't want the emotional baggage that |
| fundamental job is to protect their young. These | | | | comes with denying them the "privilege" of watching |
| instincts are often referred to as "women's intuition." | | | | their grandchildren. |
| If you think the creepy feeling you get about the | | | | - There is something fishy about a teacher or authority |
| all-too-friendly neighbor being near your child is just | | | | figure (or our spouse) when they are around our child |
| your imagination you are disregarding the very instincts | | | | yet the majority of moms will chalk the feeling up to |
| you were gifted with to protect your child. | | | | being overprotective. |
| Your Job As "Mom" | | | | Ninety-five percent of all types of attack can be |
| Your job as a mom is to use your instincts to keep | | | | avoided by acknowledging, trusting and following gut |
| you alive and healthy to care for your children. This | | | | feelings. |
| means your safety comes before theirs just like the | | | | Mom, your gut feeling is correct and you have |
| oxygen mask speech on an airplane. Trusting and | | | | permission to trust your instincts. |