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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And here's the thing: I live in AU Park. Extremely safe neighborhood within DC. Houses are about 9-10 feet apart and blocks are about 6 houses long. 4 blocks away is like another universe when your kids are in elementary school. To those kids you are from outside their universe. My kids have watched the Walsh video and memorized the term "Stranger Danger". It would designate a person such as you as a "stranger" and therefore dangerous in that setting. Kids are pretty concrete--it is a system that works as evidenced by these kid's refusal to go along with you. Consider yourself "schooled" on this subject now and stop whining about your feelings being hurt.[/quote]

I just want to emphasize that the Walsh video never uses the term stranger danger.  It emphasizes safe side adults, don't knows and kind of knows.  As Gavin de Becker points out in his book, Protecting the Gift, if you child is lost, they should be told which stranger to ask for help if their safe adults aren't present.  The type of child that gets victimized is one who is wandering around lost and confused not asking anyone for help because they have been told strangers are dangerous.  Gavin says that you should teach your child to ask the person behind the counter (at a store) or a mom with kids for help.  Most of the time children are victimized, an adult comes up to them and offers to "help."  These are usually not the people that the child should trust.  If I see a lost child (like in Target), I find a store employee and hand the child over to them instead of offering to help myself just because of this reason.

When I am with my two kids like in the mall, I go over with them before we go inside what our plan is.  Our plan is that if they look around and suddenly can't find me, then they are to go into the nearest store and ask the person behind the counter if they can call my cellphone.  They are to stay there until I come and get them.  [/quote]

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