Stranger Danger?

When did you start talking to your kids about strangers and what did you say?

Stranger Danger?

3.

We also started putting our phone numbers to frere jacques (631,631, 123,123 4567, 4567 that's my mom)

We play scenarious, like what if they offer you ice cream? It's NOT ice cream. etc.

We also talk about tricky people, not strangers, because if you are lost, and we say look for a mom WITH kids, she is a stranger but a helpful one. Tricky people ask kids for help. We try to stress that grown ups don't need help from kids (only mom and dad).

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3.

And then all summer DS would yell at DH for talking to someone in public we didn't know. At Sesame Place he yelled at DH for making small talk with another parent.

We always run scenarios about people offering him food or to get in their car, etc. He knows to "say no, run away, find an adult you know."

I also try teaching him to dial 9-1-1 in an emergency. We've started teaching him my phone number, but he hasn't caught onto that yet. I like the idea of putting it to a song. I think we'll try that!

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I don't remember but my DD is such a fraidy cat she would run from ANYONE she doesn't know.

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Posted by NervousNell

I don't remember but my DD is such a fraidy cat she would run from ANYONE she doesn't know.

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Posted by NervousNell

I don't remember but my DD is such a fraidy cat she would run from ANYONE she doesn't know.

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We started last year at 3 and a half

It's tricky.

Like after we did the talk once we were in a store a few days later and a woman waved and smiled at us and my daughter told me she couldn't talk to her bc she was a stranger

Lol working on that

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The funniest part is DS had a hard time saying "stranger" so he would say "ranger." Daddy, you can't talk to rangers! Mommy, he's a ranger! Actual strangers never knew was DS was talking about.

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Stranger Danger?

I recommend a book called Protecting the Gift. Talks about how to teach kids to use their intuition in situations and for parents to also do this to protect their child from potential dangers. I felt it was very good. Need to read it again as my kids are a bit older.

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Posted by NervousNell

I don't remember but my DD is such a fraidy cat she would run from ANYONE she doesn't know.

That's sort of how I feel abt my DD but she effing loves puppies and kitties and if a stranger was like you're mommy called and she's hurt you need to come with me now! I'll bring you to mommy!

What would she do?

So we role play too. A lot of the times when she's in the shower or bath tub and is relaxed but focused on chatting with me. We talk about ice cream, candy, puppies and kitties and bad people. I tell her if a stranger gets her she can bite and kick in the privates.

We talk about if she's lost to find a worker or a police man and short of that another mommy with kids.

We talk abt if there is a fire she needs to go to ge mail box.

If mommy won't wake up and she's alone in the house to call 911 or go and knock at a neighbors house.

I ask her about her teachers and how NO ONE aid allowed to touch her privates. How we don't keep secrets from each other and so on.

I am so paranoid!

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Posted by NervousNell

So this thread got me thinking this weekend because DD is OBSESSED with puppies and kittens and cats and dogs too.
So I casually said to her while we were hanging out relaxing on Saturday- "would you ever talk to a stranger?" She said NO!
So then I said- "But what if they had a really cute dog or cat they wanted to show you? What would you say then?"
And she says- "I'd say- No! Get away from me. I don't trust you!"


I felt a little better after that.