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- From: geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning)
- Subject: Re: Bang me on the head
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:29:07 GMT
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- Along the same lines were two incidents involving a six-year-old I
- used to know:
-
- First, she was out playing on the sidewalk (not a curbside one -- nice
- place to raise kids) and disappeared from view. A little while later,
- when my friend found her, she explained that she had been talking to a
- fellow who lived down the street and had gone into his living room for
- some reason (to pet the dog or some such, it doesn't really matter).
- When her horrified mother chewed her out, Amanda announced, "Oh, it's
- OK. He's not a kidnapper. I asked him before he went in!"
-
- Well, we got by that one, but we decided that it might be a good idea
- to strengthen little Amanda's education about the dangers of unknown
- people. So one day I was quizzing her and getting the right
- responses: "Do you talk to strangers?" "No." "Do you get into
- strangers' cars?" "No." And so forth down the list, until it
- occurred to me to ask a different question:
-
- "Do you know what a stranger is?"
-
- "Sure! It's somebody who might grab you and take you away."
-
- Oops.
- --
- Geoff Kuenning geoff@maui.cs.ucla.edu geoff@ITcorp.com
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