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Originally Posted by freedogger
So what do parents on this board do to keep their children safe from predators like this? Our kids are 3 & 5 right now.
I realize that the probability of stranger abduction is extremely low. I am the first one that doesn't want to scare the crap out of my kids. Equally important to spend time on things that are really likely to be a danger to them.
As a parent, I spend a lot of time on car safety with my young kids. Don't run out on the road, look before you cross, hold dad's hand in the parking lot and so on. I feel this is one of their most probable dangers they face.
We do a little bit around the area of kidnapping. We teach them to not let anyone take them. They are to scream and yell and kick etc if anyone tries to take them. If the person knows the password, its okay to go with them. Otherwise they are to put up a fight. They know both our phone numbers too. We usually discuss this once a month. Another big safety thing is that it is never okay for secrets. No other adult should tell them to keep a secret between us and them. That's about it. Pretty depressing we even feel motivated to go this far.
Something like this might be considered once they are in school full time.
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While their is always the chance of a random kidnapping it is pretty remote, generally the kids that end up having bad things happen to them have come from lousy homes, it reduces their defences, what we in the childcare trade call 'lack of boundries'.Difficult to see
One of my foster kids older sister had a 3 year old daughter (mum was about 18 and native) the family turned up one day to visit him with three year old in tow, about 10 minutes after meeting me the 3 year old asked me
'Uncle Nick can you take me to the bathroom?' which the mum and family where fine with, if the kid makes it to 5 without being abused it will be a miricle.