Stranger abduction is a rare occurrence and missing children are often missing at the hands of someone known to the family or a family member. Regardless teaching our children basic escape strategies is as important as basic fire drills practice in the home. Once a year we go over escape and prevention strategies followed up by practice, which the kids think is fun. I don't want my children to be scared but prepared and free to enjoy childhood of riding bikes, playing outside with friends. This is addtition to adult supervision.
Prevention:
1. Roll play and focus on adults don't ask children for help. That is there cue to leave the situation.
2. Safety in numbers, my kids love to play out front but not without their siblings.
3. Staying away from cars, or adults they do not know. Personal space.
4. Running the opposite way and screaming this is not my parent.
5. Reviewing who are safe adults are as well as safer strangers: asking a mom with children
for help. Focusing on a strangers behavior not what they may look like.
6. Locking ones legs onto their bike so as not to be put in a car, while screaming.
7. Google sexual predators and find out who lives in your hood.
Rescue:
1. Getting out of a car. Unlocking power doors, crawling out windows.
2. In a trunk? Pulling the wires, trunk safety release, or even pushing out the tail lights if possible.
3. Flicking lights at night to get attention.
4. How to call 911, leaving the phone down, not hung up, so the police come. Additionally leaving
Be Safe,
shoes by the phone with their name inside. To raise suspicion.
5. How to flood the toilet, in hopes of getting potential help inside.
6. ID bracelet with a number and reward if found, teaching children they would need to
leave this in a public place.
7. Telling their teacher if they are not with their correct adult.
The public library has dvd's and books to bring up this subject and to review. We like the zany
DVD
Be Safe,
DeAnn
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