Presented by Kent Estes
I know you are teaching your child, child safety tips. You must also teach them there might come a time when they need help from someone. There is a difference in your child asking for help and a stranger asking them for help. Nothing is fool proof. All We can do is teach them and give them the right information.
Child Safety Tip
A Child needs to know the difference
We need to make sure that we teach our kids, if they become lost, that they know there is a difference between them asking for help and a stranger asking them for help. We stress to kids not to talk to strangers, but there might be a time when they need to ask for help from a stranger. A Time when they become lost and need help from others. There are times when anyone could use help from a stranger.
Ask another Mom for help if you become lost
As a Parent you need to instruct your kids where to go and who to ask for help, if they become lost. Another woman with kids is usually a safe place. Most Child Pedophiles are men. Women usually are not child pedophiles and when they are, they are usually helping a man. If your child becomes lost, teach your kids to ask for help from another woman with kids. There is no such thing as a perfect plan, but there might come a time where your kids need help from stranger. They need to know where to go for help.
Ask a Police Officer or Store Employee for help
If you become lost
Teach your kids to look for a Police Officer or for a person of authority, such as a store or park employee. There is no such thing as a fail proof system, but kids need to be able to know the difference in someone approaching them and your kids approaching someone for help.
It is OK to ask a Stranger for help
Ask the right person
I saw a kid on television who was lost, it was a reenactment. The Child was lost in the woods. The child was so scared of strangers, she was hiding from her rescuers. She almost died from exposure because she did not know the difference from her asking for help and someone asking her for help. There may be a time when a child needs help. A child needs to learn, if they become lost, to ask for help, to as many people as possible and not to leave with a single person. A Child needs to know that you love them and you would never give them up or stop looking for them.
Credits
Kent Estes is retired from Law Enforcement after spending 24.5 years. He waswith the Broward Sheriff’s Office for 16 years and prior to that I was with the City of Deerfield Beach Police Department for 8.5 years. He was the Sexual Predator Coordinator for Broward County for over 5 years.
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