Eight Safety Strategies To Teach Children About Strangers

1.Help your children identify which stranger they can trust, such as a policeman, a mom with other kids, a store manager, or a security guard.

2.Identify Unsafe Places Internet chat rooms aren’t the only unsafe areas for children. Teach your children that any location that’s isolated like the backyard woods, parking lots, or dark street ways should not be entered alone.

 3.Adults asking for help It’s important to teach your kids that adults will not turn to a child for help.

4. It’s okay to say no most children are taught to respect and obey grown-ups. It’s important you give your children permission to yell “No!” if someone tries to touch or grab them.

5.Create a family secret code word select an easy to remember, yet obscure, password like, their favorite color, that the a person must know in order to pick them up.

6.Empower your kids to be rude often times, children are afraid to be rude to adults because they are afraid to talk back to an authority figure. Teach your kids that safety overrules manners.

7. Perpetrators are less likely to approach children who are in a group or with another child.

8. Identify safe places your child can go if they need help.