Easing Fears
Posted by Mel on April 22, 2009
Our babysitter is afraid of our house. We have windows along the entire back side of the home which opens up into the backyard and at night, with no lights behind the house, it can feel very isolating. She had babysat for us several times during the day but on her first evening of work, she shared with us her fear. Her discomforts lead us to change our plans for the night. We didn’t want to leave our children with someone who was scared of the house; it wouldn’t have been fair to her or our kids.
The situations with the babysitter lead us to reevaluate security in and around our home. While we’ve never felt threatened, we did understand how isolated our home is from the rest of our neighborhood, thus giving the feeling of fear. We decided to contact a company specializing in home security in Denver. An agent came to our home and talked to us about implementation of a home security system that would be monitored 24 hours a day. Within in days, we had all the windows and doors linked to the off-site monitoring center which could be contacted at the punch at the keypad. Our babysitter decided to try babysitting for us again and we had a successful evening out after we put her fears to rest with our new alarm system.
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