{"id":187908,"date":"2023-10-17T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=187908"},"modified":"2023-10-17T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:01:20","slug":"i-was-in-the-cia-and-fbi-id-never-let-my-kid-do-these-seven-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/lifestyle\/i-was-in-the-cia-and-fbi-id-never-let-my-kid-do-these-seven-things\/","title":{"rendered":"I was in the CIA and FBI &#8211; I&apos;d NEVER let my kid do these seven things"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I was in the CIA and FBI &#8211; I&#8217;d NEVER let my child do these seven things<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tracy Schandler Walder, 44, from Texas, used to work in counterterrorism\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The author now breaks down world and crime news on Instagram and TikTok<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In a recent video, she listed some of the precautions she takes as a mother\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former CIA officer and FBI special agent has lifted the lid on the seven things she would never let her eight-year-old daughter do given her past professions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Schandler Walder, 44, from Texas, previously worked as a staff operations officer at the CIA&#8217;s Counterterrorism Center and as a special agent at the FBI&#8217;s Los Angeles Field Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Unexpected Spy author and news contributor is known as @theunexpectedspy on Instagram and TikTok, where she breaks down world and crime\u00a0news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video,\u00a0Schandler Walder listed some of the precautions she takes as a parent and ex-spy, warning in the caption that she &#8216;might ruffle some feathers with this one.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667071-12638121-image-m-2_1697558711183.jpg\" height=\"846\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tracy Schandler Walder, 44, from Texas, revealed the seven things she would never let her child do as a former CIA officer and FBI agent in a video shared on Instagram\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667059-12638121-image-m-6_1697558753216.jpg\" height=\"488\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667077-12638121-image-m-8_1697558766548.jpg\" height=\"488\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>The mom explained that she would never let her eight-year-old daughter go to sleep away camp, walk home by herself, or use public restrooms by herself\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667055-12638121-image-m-16_1697558904304.jpg\" height=\"752\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The news contributor noted that she always Googles all of her daughter&#8217;s teachers and coaches because &#8216;social history&#8217; doesn&#8217;t come up on background checks\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, she said that she would not let her daughter go to sleep away camp because she thinks she is too young.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;She&#8217;s not at an age that I am comfortable having her do that yet,&#8217; she explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The mother of one went on to share that she does not have a gun in her home, despite her time in the CIA and FBI, saying, &#8216;It&#8217;s just something that I choose not to do.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I will always, always, always lock up all of my prescription medication and my\u00a0<\/span>alcohol,&#8217; she continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When she got to the fourth thing she does to protect her daughter, she admitted that &#8216;this one may be unpopular.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I will always\u00a0Google\u00a0all of the teachers that she has, any teacher or coach that is in her life, as well as the parents,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schandler Walder noted that while she is aware that teachers get background checks, she &#8216;wants to\u00a0understand what their social history is like.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Those things don&#8217;t come up on a background check,&#8217; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Tracy Schandler Walder (@theunexpectedspy)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667045-12638121-image-m-10_1697558820634.jpg\" height=\"758\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Schandler Walder was a student at the University of Southern California when she was recruited by the CIA at a job fair. She is pictured on the day she left for the CIA in May 2000<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667047-12638121-image-m-13_1697558837791.jpg\" height=\"920\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>After leaving the CIA,\u00a0she became an FBI special agent specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations. She is pictured on the day she graduated from Quantico\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667053-12638121-image-a-11_1697558830573.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Schandler Walder wrote about her experiences in counterterrorism in her book, The Unexpected Spy, which was published in 2020<\/p>\n<p>Continuing her list, she said that she would not let her daughter &#8216;walk to and from school by herself.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I also would not let her use the bathroom in a restaurant or any kind of public place by herself. I always go with her,&#8217; she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>TRACY&#8217;S SAFETY TIPS\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>The mom concluded her video by saying her daughter is also at an age where she does &#8216;not let her play unsupervised without an adult present.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schandler Walder was a student at the University of Southern California and a Delta Gamma sorority sister when she was recruited by the CIA at a job fair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She spent the next five years &#8216;assuming aliases, thwarting terrorist attacks, and hiding in the trunks of cars on her way to debrief terrorists at black sites&#8217; as\u00a0a covert operative for CIA\u2019s Counterterrorism Center, according to her website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the CIA, she became an FBI special agent specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schandler Walder\u00a0wrote about her experiences in counterterrorism in her book, The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World&#8217;s Most Notorious Terrorists, which was published in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many commenters praised her for the safety tips she shared in her recent video, and some added that they take similar precautions with their own children.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You are a great parent. No one should dispute these tips,&#8217; one person wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I always be stalking people who are in my kids&#8217; lives, no sleepovers, monitor internet, only my teen has a phone and more \u2026 my kids will not become a statistic if I can at all help it! (And they never go to public restroom alone EVER),&#8217; another explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I love number 4 the most. That\u2019s very CIA and I am on board,&#8217; someone else responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12638121\/cia-fbi-never-let-child-seven-things.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the CIA and FBI &#8211; I&#8217;d NEVER let my child do these seven things Tracy Schandler Walder,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I was in the CIA and FBI - I&amp;apos;d NEVER let my kid do these seven things - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/lifestyle\/i-was-in-the-cia-and-fbi-id-never-let-my-kid-do-these-seven-things\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I was in the CIA and FBI - I&amp;apos;d NEVER let my kid do these seven things - News Need News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was in the CIA and FBI &#8211; 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