Episode 1: Safe at Home

[tombogan03884]

Tell her she owes it to the kids, they deserve to have a LIVE Mother.

[Rob Pincus]

Bryand71,


Thanks for your thoughts on the show and the DVD Series. It is sometimes hard to get someone to commit to the first step of proper preparation: Recognizing the Need for it !

I think we all hope that at least a few people will tune in to The Best Defense or stop long enough while channel surfing to have their awareness raised to a level that gets them to start thinking about their safety in the first place. Perhaps watching a few episodes will get your wife to start thinking more about safety.

Over the holidays I read The Science of Fear . If your wife read that book she would learn about the way humans tend to rationalize their beliefs about what things are really dangerous. The book makes a very good case for worrying a lot more about wearing your seatbelt and a lot less about what hollowpoints to load your backup gun with. At the same it explains why it is more interesting to talk about the bullet choices and how easy it is to think that the latter issue is a higher priority. While this may sound like the book would steer her away from most of what we talk about here, I think it is more likely to help her focus on issues of safety and security in general and realize that the proper prioritization of fears and concerns is what matters. The obvious little things, such as locking the door, which take virtually no effort relative to the potential benefit should become easy for her to recognize as being worthwhile.

-RJP

[bryand71]

Rob,
Thanks for the advice. I will check that book out and see if I can get her to watch TBD with me. I still have episode 1 on the DVR.