DCR, The advice you give is the way I would approach this kind of thing of providing a safe environment for my children. In my first sentence of my first post above I was intending to point this idea out. Being watchful and cautious is very important as evidenced by the many incidents involving kids that were publicized in late summer of this year. Of course children are affected throughout the year by similiar incidents across the US. I think the media was just focusing on it more this last summer. DCR, thanks for your advice and also for your complement :-)