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- From: lindae@netcom.com ()
- Subject: Re: What Would You Do If...?
- Message-ID: <09mmk_p.lindae@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:01:37 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <75hmajn.lindae@netcom.com> <22856@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- In article <22856@oasys.dt.navy.mil> cousins@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kathy Cousins) writes:
- >In alt.missing-kids, lindae@netcom.com writes:
- >>
- >>QUESTION: What are some things that you have done to protect your
- >>child from potential abduction? How do you go about explaining all of
- >>this to your child without scaring him or her? How has your child
- >>reacted when you offer these safety tips?
- >>
- >>Come on, let's hear your comments....
- >>
- >>Linda
- >>lindae@netcom.com
- >
- >Interesting question. I am looking forward to seeing other responses.
- >
- >My daughter (Christine) is now 13 and we have done a number of things
- >over the years to prevent abduction. (Obviously you do different things
- >at different ages but I don't remember exactly what age she was when
-
- >Many can be done as a game or "because you are so big now you can
- >learn ________". I don't think kids need to learn everything in the
- >
- >learning her name and then phone number and address (actually the first
- >learning how to get from different places to home ("which way do we
- >turn here?" "what is the name of THIS street" etc as a game)
- >
- >being confident using the telephone--answering it, making calls, calling
- >information, later making a collect call home from the mall just to
- >practice, and recently letting her have one of my telephone calling
- >cards and having her use it when we are on vacation and had to call
-
- >having our "secret word" and playing "what if someone comes to school
- >
- >talking about "what if Mommy gets lost at the mall/grocery store" etc
- >
- >if someone is following in a car as you walk down the street, wait
- >until you can safely cross the street and then cross and run back
- >the way you came (this also came from school, the idea being that
- >the driver of the car would draw attention to him/herself by making
- >a u-turn)
- >
- >where there is ANYONE around that she was to repeat VERY loudly and
- >firmly "YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER/FATHER" so that other adults who
- >might be able to help, will help and won't think she was just a
- >bratty kid being taken by a parent
- >
- What WONDERFUL IDEAS!! Thank you so much for sharing them here.
- I'm sure that a lot of parents are going to be very grateful to
- you!!
-
- How about the rest of you? Any ideas? Let's get some good
- conversation started here. Kathy's post was a great start!
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