I’m blogging this as part of BlogCatalog’s Blogging for a Great Cause Challenge.

Children they are the fruit grown from the seed of love that their parents planted. I always treasure these little ones because I know each and every one of them is very precious. But today, unfortunately the perception on the value of life has changed. During labor, doctor struggles hard to save both mother and child from dying. When the death have been overcome, we thought we all should celebrate it. But later in life, the child might receive different types of abuse from the adults.

There were several child murder cases since I was back from Russia. As an outsider, we often shake our heads and express our sympathy only when met with this kind of situation and then we return back to “mind our own business” attitude. If we care more for the little ones, we CAN prevent child abuse from happening. Action speaks louder than words! So stop pretending like you care and start sympathising everyone, instead why not try to do what you could do to help the children?

1) Call the police when you heard/saw your neighbour abusing his/her children.
2) When you see a lost child crying in the shopping complex, stay with the child until his/her parents came back to look for the child when they notice their child is missing or bring the child to the customer service counter to make an announcement to inform his/her parents. (I did this once in Jusco, Midvalley for a 5 yrs old malay boy separated from his parents.)
3) Parents, be more responsible and alert towards your child’s whereabout. Don’t let them go far away from your sight. Kidnappers can take any opportunity to take them away when you are not looking.
4) Always keep the gates at home locked and keep the keys somewhere beyond the reach of the young children so that they won’t simply run out the house without notifying you.
5) Teach children to scream for help and runaway when some suspected unknown strangers trying to approach them so that other adults could take notice and help them.
6) Never leave your child alone, unattended! Even if just going to the park, cycling, pasar malam (night market), always go along with them.
7) Hold the child tightly and keep him/her close to you when going to crowded places.

*All these are written based on my personal opinion, what I could do to protect those children. It might not be applicable for everyone. So do share your opinions with me. I am learning as well everyday to improve in protecting children from being hurt.
For further reading, do drop by pelf’s blog. She have written most of the things that i wanted to say. Do drop by her blog to show your support!