Disturbing Dreams

 I woke up this morning after having some very disturbing dreams.  It made me start thinking about Instagram and all the people who have accounts featuring or including their young children.  I completely understand that people are proud of their children and families and that other people appreciate sharing in their stories even when they don’t know them.  There is one family who’s account I love to see where the couple suffered from infertility and it took them many years to finally succeed in adopting a baby and becoming parents.  After they did finally become parents, they somehow conceived on their own and very soon had 4 biological children and a 5th  is soon to arrive.  I love this story and love to see their beautiful children.  In a perfect world it would be perfectly safe for people to proudly share their family stories and photos and/or videos of their children.  A lot of people do place trust in others and make this choice.  After the disturbing dreams that I had last night though, I couldn’t help but think about the risks involved in making one’s family so visible to a lot of unknown people.  Unfortunately there are sick and dangerous people in this world.  Bad things can always to happen to anyone in life, but I can’t help thinking this morning that it is not a good to increase the odds of such a thing taking place particularly with children. It is too bad that the bad apples out there make it necessary to think and be concerned about these things.