Could this happen to you?

Could you be a victim of this kind of accusation?, Are you a Parent?, an Aunt, Uncle, Brother, Sister, Friend, Baby-sitter, Teacher, Lollipop Lady/Man, Bus driver, Chip shop owner etc......., or even your average person?( whatever one of them is) Then anything is possible.

Ask yourself about the last time you had to discipline your child, or a child in your care? Were they happy about it? If the answer is no, then you may have just become a target for a future allegation of abuse.

Have you caught your teenager, or any teenager for that matter, doing something that you consider inappropriate, refusing to do something you ask, smoking, drinking, doing drugs, stealing, dressing far to provocatively for their age, vandalizing, causing you and your neighbours a nuisance, back answering, using vulgar language both to you and any one else and any other number of things that you are unhappy with? Have you then tried to somehow discipline them? Be very careful, you could definitely be heading down the rocky path of being falsely accused.

Of course, one would hope that the vast majority of children would usually respond positively when out of favour with their parents, and would want, even if they don't know how, to keep the peace. The parents role, is, of course, to guide the child and help in any way they can. And for those majority of parents and children who can reach this happy state, they are to be commended.

But what, when the child has been conditioned by "expert" advise, however they have gotten it? Then the story is different. The child is likely to use their poorly founded knowledge to their own advantage, and to accuse their parents, et al of doing things they don't like, or worse still, that could to easily be construed as abuse. Of course they don't like it, especially when they can't get their own way, or when they have been caught out!

So, could this happen to you? The answer is, hopefully, probably not, but never lower your guard because it just might!