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[Lindiwe 🌻 @lin_d09]

Keep moving forward ❤️

[Miyandy @Amahashi_]

I worked 20 years for a child sex trafficking rescue group. I want you to know this:

90% of Lost Children Are Found Within 30 Minutes.

That statistic should both comfort you and wake you up.

Most lost children are found quickly. But the ones who aren’t? They usually made one mistake.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth:

It’s often the exact thing most parents teach them.

We tell our kids:

“If you get lost, come find me.”

It sounds logical. It sounds empowering.

It’s WRONG!

The Mistake Most Lost Children Make:

When children realize they’re separated, they do three things almost automatically:

They panic.
They wander.
They try to find you.

Every step makes them harder to locate.

From a search standpoint, movement creates chaos.

Parents retrace their steps.
Security scans zones.
Staff lock down areas.

Search works best when movement stops.

When a child keeps walking, they move outside the original search radius. Helpers are looking where they were last seen — not where they’ve wandered.

Stillness increases probability.

Movement expands the problem.

The first lesson is not “go find me.”

It’s this:

Stop. Stay. Yell.

Why Stillness Wins:

Think like a search team.

If a child stays put:

Parents can retrace steps.
Security can scan systematically.
Helpers converge to one fixed location.
The search radius remains small.
If a child keeps moving:

The search area expands.
Adults pass each other.
Missed connections multiply.
Minutes stretch into hours.
Stillness keeps the math on your side.

Teach Them Who to Approach:

The second mistake we make as parents?

We say, “Find an adult.”

Not any adult. Not the nearest stranger. Children need a filter.

Teach them to look for, if at all possible:

A mother with children.

Caregivers who already have kids with them are statistically among the safest people to approach in public settings. They are visible, stationary, and more likely to engage quickly.

It’s a clear, concrete instruction.

Children don’t process vague categories like “safe adult.”

They process visuals.

“Find a mom with kids” is visual.

A Phone Only Helps If the Number Is Known:

We often assume phones solve everything.

They don’t — unless your child can use one. Even young children can memorize a 10-digit phone number with repetition.

But you must train it.

Practice it like a song.

Sing it in the car.
Chant it at bedtime.
Turn it into rhythm.

Repetition becomes recall.

In an emergency, recall matters more than theory.

The Code Word Rule:

One more layer of protection.

Choose a private family code word.

Something only your household knows.

If someone approaches and says:

“Your mom sent me.”

Your child asks:

“What’s the code word?”

No word.
No go.

This simple rule eliminates manipulation attempts instantly.

It gives your child agency without requiring them to evaluate character.

Real Safety Is Training — Not Luck!

We don’t get safer by hoping.

We get safer by practicing.

Teach:

• Phone number
• Code word
• Stop, stay, yell
• Find a mom with kids

Multiple skills.
Simple instructions.
Clear visuals.

Five minutes of training can replace hours of panic. This isn’t about fear. It’s about preparation.

Because when a child gets separated, the clock starts.

And what they do in the first minute determines what the next thirty look like.

That’s real protection.

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

Actress Viola Davis tells @thattracysmith that Annalise Keating from “How to Get Away with Murder” was the role that changed her the most.

The character pushed her to challenge how the world defines beauty, confidence and sexuality: “I reject what sexy looks like. I reject what messy looks like. And I reject it all as it pertains to me.”

Watch the extended interview here: https://t.co/tpuV8wjEtf

[Lindiwe 🌻 @lin_d09]

@PEPstores_SA Okay. Thanks.

[Lindiwe 🌻 @lin_d09]

@PEPstores_SA how do we get an item that was not packed but is on the receipt?

My grandma went to the Peo at Mabopane Square today and bought clothes, when she got home, she noticed that a blue hoodie is missing. The cashier was busy on her own phone during the sale.

[Lindiwe 🌻 @lin_d09]

@vaewest You’re right, what’s wrong with people? That person in question is YOU. That’s her spot, whether the apartment is vacant or not, it’s HER spot. You had no right to use it. You’re not entitled to use someone’s spot just because they are seldom ever there. You’re wrong.

[clubheartbreak @clubheartbreak]

The In Memoriam at the 2026 #ActorsAwards

[Ifediche @esther_stan]

This case had me weeping into the early hours of the morning.( a very long detailed read)

Furuta Junko was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted, r aped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers…Hiroshi Miyano (18), Jō Ogura (17), Shinji Minato (16), and Yasushi Watanabe (17) and took place over a 40-day period starting on 25 November 1988.

In Japan, the case is known as the "concrete-encased high school girl murder case" (女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件, joshikōsei konkurīto-zume satsujin jiken) and is one of the worst cases in japan juvenile history.

On the evening of 25 November 1988, Miyano and Minato rode around Misato on their motorcycles with the intention of robbing and r aping local women, and spotted Furuta, who was on her way home from her part-time job. Acting on Miyano's orders, Minato kicked Furuta off her bicycle and fled the scene. Miyano, under the pretense of witnessing the attack by coincidence, approached Furuta and offered to walk her home. After further gaining her trust, Miyano walked Furuta to a nearby warehouse and threatened her, telling her that he was a yakuza member and that he would spare her only if she followed his orders

That night, Miyano took Furuta by taxi to a hotel in Adachi, where he r aped her. He later called Minato's house and bragged to his friends. In the early morning hours of 26 November, Miyano took Furuta to a park near the hotel, where Ogura, Minato, and Watanabe were waiting. They told her they knew where she lived, and that the yakuza would kill her family if she attempted to escape. Minato agreed to allow Furuta to be confined in a room on the second floor of his house in Adachi for the purpose of gang r aping her. Furuta was held captive for 40 days.

On 27 November, Furuta's parents contacted the police about her disappearance. To discourage further investigation, the kidnappers forced Furuta to call her mother three times to convince her that she had run away but was safe and staying with friends. In front of Minato's parents ,Furuta was forced to act as his girlfriend. The group dropped this pretense when it became clear that Minato's parents would not report them to the police.

Miyano and the others,Nakamura and Ihara, gang r aped Furuta, after which Miyano shaved her pubic hair with a razor and used a match to burn her genital area. In early December, as punishment for an escape attempt, the group repeatedly p unched Furuta in the face, and Miyano burned her ankles with a lighter. They forced Furuta to dance to music while naked, m asturbate in front of them, and stand on the balcony in the middle of the night with little clothing, and inserted objects into her v agina and anus, including a metal rod and a bottle.

They forced her to drink large amounts of alcohol, milk, and water, smoke two cigarettes at once, and inhale paint thinner fumes. In one attack in the middle of December, Furuta was beaten by the group, on the pretext that Miyano had stepped on a puddle of her urine, after which he burned her thighs and hands several times with lighter fluid. From around this time, Furuta, unable to bear the repeated assaults, would sometimes plead to be k illed by her captors.

Throughout the rest of December, the severity of Furuta's abuse continued to escalate. She was severely malnourished Due to her injuries, she became unable to walk and was confined to the room's floor in a state of extreme weakness. Her appearance was disfigured by the beatings, with her face swollen to the point of unrecognizability, and her wounds had started to emit a foul odor.

On 4 January 1989, after losing money in a game of mahjong the night before, Miyano decided to take his anger out on Furuta. He ignited a candle and dripped hot wax on her face, placed two shortened candles on her eyelids, and forced her to drink her own urine. Furuta was lifted and kicked, fell onto a stereo unit, and began a fit of convulsions.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

That’s God 1000%

[𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐃𝐀 @Auntyadaa]

This is how one’s life can change just like that. 👏🏼

[Lindiwe 🌻 @lin_d09]

@KingMntungwa I’m not surprised! My brother worked here and they made his life hell. They were horrible!!!

[Nthabeleng Likotsi @MissNthabeleng]

This testimony made me cry, just a reminder of God in my life 💜💜

[Love Music @khnh80044]

The expressive way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. I couldn't stop watching her.

[The Sound @thesoundhub_]

Ministration or a contest?

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

This is one of the most extraordinary things you will see, by Marula Eugster Rigolo

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is brilliant.
♥️ 🎶🎻

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

God bless you all ‼️

[Vuvu Videos @VideosVuvu]

I don’t know who he is or how he got there but I love this for him 😂😂
#videosvuvu

[Lindiwe 🌻 @lin_d09]

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