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The only thing is I can barely believe that she's five. Tomorrow she'll be 18 and in college. Really. She's already planning for the day when I'll be a grandmother and she'll have five babies of her own and three dogs and we'll all live here and...Enough. Let's just worry about college for right now, okay? Wow, my baby in college. I can already see it. I'm trying to be realistic, not romanticize it overly much. It's hard not to all the new experiences, the classes and lecture halls, the crisp fall air blowing through the leaves of the stately oaks that have shaded countless generations of idealistic faces. Ah, college life...but like I said I'm trying to be realistic. College campuses are like cocoons or at least that's how they feel when you're there and a part of the busy life. It's when you're older and you look at that world with new eyes, a different perspective, that you can really see what a college campus is indeed it is a place of possibilities, but it is hardly safe and nurturing like a cocoon or a nest. It is a society within a society and sometimes the harsh realities of the bigger real world society slither in. Crime on college campuses is a reality. We all know that. People steal, people fight, and people hurt each other. Unfortunately, even at school. That's why there are campus police departments. Each year colleges and universities are required to report their institution's crime statistics broken down into categories, but guess what? Date rape isn't included, it's almost like it's not a crime at all. Unfortunately, too many campus police departments still have archaic points of view when it comes to date rape or sometimes called acquaintance rape if the girl knows her attacker than it's not a crime and no one else is in danger, no harm, no foul. Fortunately, I'm not naïve. Incensed maybe, but not naïve. So like I've always done, I will prepare my daughter for an eventuality that I hope never comes. But not to prepare her would be even worse than the outdated attitudes held by some campus police chiefs. Wow, a strange train of thought to be having...Christmas presents for my five year old daughter to date rape in college. Well, perhaps, a little. But like I said, I try to be realistic. To some I may appear to be fey, but when it comes to my daughter, I plan ahead she is my baby after all. So believe it or not, I already know what I'm giving her for her last Christmas before she leaves for college. It is the most perfect gift that I can think of a ring. It's not just any old ring although it is pretty; it is a ring of protection. And no, I won't call it My Precious. It's just a really cool ring with the capability to make any aggressive boy cool his jets with some serious temporary pain. Called the Stunning Ring, this ring actually contains pepper spray which is a great personal protection aid. On second thought, maybe, I will call it My Precious. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Amy Herndon is an expert on self defense. She has two web sites that have more information, as well as, tools that you can use to protect yourself: www.azhselfdefense.com <http://www.azhselfdefense.com/> and www.azhsurveillance.com <http://www.azhsurveillance.com/> --- END ARTICLE --- Get HTML or TEXT Copy-and-Paste Versions Of This Article at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/h/gift-for-daughter.shtml#get_code ..................................... 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