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- From: BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Stephanie Edelmann)
- Subject: What would you have done (was: Re: Bang me on the head)
- Message-ID: <16B627E99.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Kentucky
- References: <77572@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:00:07 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- In article <77572@apple.apple.COM>
- scott@Apple.COM (scott douglass) writes:
-
- >
- >So my five-year-old and I are driving along and we see a guy
- >hitch-hiking. "Oooh," says Alan. "He shouldn't take a ride
- >from strangers." I'm thinking this is good, this is fine. Let's
- >take the opportunity to reinforce this.
- >
- >Me: Alan, if you needed a ride, would you ride with a stranger?
- >Alan: Nope.
- >Me: What if you were walking and someone offered you a ride?
- >Alan: Nope.
- >Me: What if they offered you candy?
- >Alan: Oh yeah. Sure!
- >Me (swerving back onto the road): WHAT???? WHY????
- >Alan: Because then I'd know they were nice!
- >Me (internally): Aaaarrrgh!
- >
- >Of course we had a little discussion about how you can't tell if
- >a stranger's nice so you dodn't go with anyone unless Mama says it's
- >okay. This lead to some uncomfortable questions like where do bad
- >people want to take him and why. But hopefully he won't go off
- >with candy-toting strangers now. Sheesh!
- >
- > -- maggie
- >--
- > --scott douglass
- >Any opinions above may be mine and are not necessarily those of Apple Computer.
- >domain: scott@apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun, voder, well, dual}!apple!scott
- >CSNet: scott@Apple.CSNet AppleLink: Douglass1
-
- I've got a question for you guys about this one. The other day, my
- daughter Tatijana (2.5) and I rode the bike to the store. As I am tying
- up my bike, a stranger walks up to her. He says "Hi" and tells her that
- she's a cutie. I'm ready to hit him at this point. (By the way, he's an
- old guy - the grandfather-type). Then he reaches in his pocket and says:
- "I don't know you from Adam, but I'm gonna give you a quarter."
- I just stand there and I don't know what to do. But I'm right there,
- I'm holding her hand, so I let her take the quarter.
- Then the old man leaves - and I give my daughter this long speech about
- not taking things from strangers when Mommy's not there. Don't know if
- she got it.
-
- I don't know if I did the right thing, though. Somehow I should have found
- a way to nicely tell him that I'd rather not have him give anything to my
- child - because of the dangers. The "thanks, but no thanks"approach.
- What would you guys have done? And at what age do you think they understand
- that they shouldn't take anything from a stranger?
-
- Stephanie
-
-