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[quote=Anonymous]I can empathize with the OP. I grew up poor, on welfare in the deep south in a trailer park.

I am very well off now and find I have to manufacture hardship in order to install some for of resilience in my kids now.  That also goes for "Street Smarts."  I have to go out of my way to put them in an environment where my overly taken care of kids have to come face to face with how more poverty stricken folks interact....which is not how things are in my current neighborhood or surrounding neighborhoods.

I like to take them down to sketchy parts of DC from time to time and go to some shady 7-Elevens.  Also, we go to local grocery stores when on vacation in the caribbean.

Then, we like to watch old Mr. T PSA videos on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo1hUo7C6Ow

I'm being half-serious here, but you do have do be a parent and try to bring attention to things like this.  Talk to them about:
1.) Being Attentive and Observant
2.) Stranger Encounters
3.) Seeking Help and Safety

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