Pre-School and Daycare
How do you teach your kid about stranger danger?
I recently watched a special where they set up kids to test their stranger danger know how. All the kids had been taught before (not just that day) not to talk to strangers or go with them, etc. All it took was an ice cream truck and the lure of free ice cream and the chance to see the inside of the truck to play the music. Most of the kids went inside the truck.
I have been talking to my kids about it, but I don't think they really get it. My kids are shy and cautious around new people in general, but I don't know if they would be able to resist free ice cream or lollipops.
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Re: How do you teach your kid about stranger danger?
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I agree. And I'm of the opinion that my kids CAN talk to strangers, but cannot ever go anywhere with them. As previous poster said, it's often the people somehow in the kids or parents lived that are dangerous ones. Also, I want my kids to be comfortable talking to strangers in case they ever need help: if they get separated from me in a mall, if someone is sick or injured, etc. I don't want them to live in fear that the friendly person who smiled at them in the mall or on the park bench is also going to abduct or hurt them.
This is my concern too. I want to raise a child who is cautious of strangers, but also be polite. But then I always try to remember what my self-defense teacher once said, its better to be rude to someone you dont know, than be nice and be attacked by that person.
I need to start teaching DS about stranger danger though, I havent started yet.
I agree with a lot of what has been said -especially how it's most often someone they know. Stranger danger is good but it undermines the more likely scenario- a family friend or relative.
I think teaching good touch/bad touch is important. I also think it's really important to stress that if someone tells them to keep the secret, they should tell me because we never keep secrets. I tell them if someone tells them I will be mad, that it's not true. I tell them that I will never ever leave them for any reason. I tell them telling me things makes me happy- keeping secrets makes me sad.
I also think role playing is really important - for exactly the reason that the ice cream scenario worked on the kids. You can tell them anything but if they see a puppy in a car or an ice cream truck, unless they know those kind of things are what lure kids (without telling them that part), then it's just words.
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do NOT teach "stranger danger" bc your child might NEED a stranger's help one day.
https://www.checklistmommy.com/tag/stranger-danger/
excellent info on that site.
I have talked a lot with my older son about tricky people- and he gets it.
He knows that if he ever gets lost to find someone who looks like a mommy- and tell her.... women are MUCH less likely to do anything bad to a child. This was info given to me at a seminar given by an FBI agent who teaches about keeping kids safe.