If you’ve been with us for any length of time, you probably know that we here at TMR encourage parents to listen to their “mommy gut” or, as it’s more generally known, their intuition. As security expert Gavin de Becker points out in his two books The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift, that intuition, more than anything, is what protects us times of danger, and learning to hear it can make the difference between life and death.