We are thankful to have each other. Our kids are doing fine. We have been relying on strangers and one family member in Orlando. That's been a lesson.

Offline, we tell our kids not to take candy from strangers and not to get into cars with strangers, ... But in chat rooms, they take the (virtual) candy and jump in the (virtual) car all the time.

Your kids will tell things to strangers that they will never tell to you.

Without the kindness of strangers, where would we be?

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

We teach our kids from an early age: Stranger danger. Yet they're talking to strangers on the Internet all the time.