Teaching Children About Strangers

As parents, teaching children about strangers is very important for our kids' safety. The friendlier your children are, the more of a risk they face with malicious strangers. Of course, you should not encourage your child to be unhealthily introverted, nor should you try to shelter your child from the world. But they do need to understand the potential danger of a stranger. This is a very important thing that we all need to teach kids as soon as they start comprehending things. And we all need to be and stay consistent with it.

This is something that I fear all of the time, because my one child is so friendly with everyone while my other will not talk to anyone at all even if I tell him it is okay. As soon as he warms up to you then he will start to talk and play. But my other will just go up to any one and introduce himself and try to strike up conversation. My husband and I do talk to him about it all of the time but it does not change what he still does. Below is a list of tips on how to teach children about stranger danger!

Tips on how to teach your children about strangers

Stranger Danger for Kids 101
1. We need to talk to our children and teach them the difference as to who it is okay to talk to and who it is not okay to talk to. Teachers, police, firemen, and anyone else whose job is emergency medical service. And then there are just random people that try to come up and talk to children.
2. Teach you child their full name, phone number, address and anything else of other importance they will need to know if they have to go to a police man or woman.
3. Do the buddy system. If they are going out make sure someone else is going to be with them at all times.
4. Tell them if a car should try to stop them, do not go up to the car for any reason at all, no matter what the person is trying to tell them. They should run as fast as they can to a cop or someone else they know is a safe person to be around.
5. If you see that some one is following you, write down or remember the tag number and tell an adult that you know.
6. If there is some one that has grabbed you and is trying to take you, then kick, scream, hit, bite, yell as loud as you can, letting people know that this is not your parent or some one you know.
7. If the child is old enough make sure they have a phone and or some kind of protection on them at all times if you know that will be walking some place by themselves.
8. If they are home alone tell them do not answer the door unless you know who it is. If someone is trying to enter the home forcefully then call the police right away and also call someone you know that lives close to you to come right away.
9. Always stay with you parent or guardian when at any kind of store, never walk away from them. There could be a child predator anywhere around you, just waiting to get them.
10. If for any reason at all you and your child should get separated in a big crowd and some one is trying to grab the child up tell them to make a scene: scream, make loud noises and make all the commotion you can so others will see and catch on to what is happening.
11. If your child is home alone, they should understand that they should never announce this to anyone, in any way, either to someone at the door, online, or over the phone

Teaching your Child About Strangers

These are just a few things you can teach your child about stranger danger and how to prevent being hurt or taken by another individual. This is a very serious and concerning thing that all children and adults need to be aware of and know first hand what to do in a situation they may not be able to stop from happening. Obviously, not all strangers are bad, but the odds are if a stranger approaches a child, they mean to do them some kind of harm. It is rare that a stranger would need to talk to or approach a child with which they are unfamiliar, so in most cases, this kind of situation is a dangerous one. Children should understand that adult strangers rarely, if ever, need to talk to them. Normal adults who are unfamiliar with a particular child tend to know about stranger danger, so they respect the notion that even if they had a reason, they should not approach a child they don't know.