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A second drawback of monitoring devices is that they give both adults and children a false sense of security.

One wonders if the yellow school bus ("When Yellow Means Stop, Not Go," March 13), with its alert drivers, flashing lights, pop-out stop sign and yellow front protective barricade, actually gives children a false sense of security.

One fear among some parents was that the vaccination may give their adolescent children a false sense of security and increase their promiscuity, thereby increasing the probability of an unwanted pregnancy or an STD [ 35].

McBride says that although the Wii gets your kid off the couch and his arms moving around, it gives a child "a false sense of what it's like to compete in the world".

There are some things that happen to us that will forever change our lives and may even effectively destroy them: the death of a child, a false accusation of a serious crime, an injury so grave we can no longer function without assistance.

An influential lobby of foreign commentators argue that the image of a starving African child offers a false picture of the real Africa.

Celebrating the Arab Spring today, or taking pride in it, is as delusional as the overly praised only child with a false sense of undeserving achievement.

A Treasury official who insisted on not being identified said it was unfair to judge the size of the overpayment problem on the basis of just one year's tax credit, because the overpayments can continue year after year until each minor child listed on a false claim turns 18. "It's a permanent thing," she said.

Source monitoring error is the error in tagging information to its source and is a problem faced when interviewing very young children and when the child repeatedly rehearse a false event (Roberts & Powel, 2001).

Friday's flurry about more shots fired at more Bowie, Md., school children finally proved a false alarm, just in time for the "New Crop of Chicks Flix" on one cable channel.

It is the same problem again and again of short-term, politically driven budget cycles overriding the provision of good-quality care for children, and delivering a false economy of savings now at greater expense later.