Do you know the difference between strangers and trusted adults? How can code words keep you safe? What should you do if a stranger approaches? Look inside to find the answers to these questions and more. By learning a few rules, you can stay safe around strangers.
Do you know the difference between strangers and trusted adults? How can code words keep you safe? What should you do if a stranger approaches? Look inside to find the answers to these questions and more. By learning a few rules, you can stay safe around strangers.
Most children, especially children on the autism spectrum, accept adults' friendliness at face value. Sometimes it can have tragic consequences. Written by a Deputy Sheriff, this book is credited with foiling at least 22 stranger abductions. Characters Bobby and Mandee explain stranger danger in a way that is accessible, but not frightening, for children. Read it to your child and role-play different scenarios. Create a password only you and your child know, label backpacks on the inside (so strangers won't know your name). Strangers can be men or women, old or young. Adults should not touch, give gifts to, or ask for help from children. If they do, don't keep it a secret! Tell an adult! Arm your child with the knowledge that may save his or her life.
The ABC Book on Protecting Yourself from Strangers will help children protect themselves and aid in preventing child abduction. It has twenty-six words, one for each letter of the alphabet, followed by brief explanations, helping children to learn their stranger-danger alphabet through word association. This book will help children learn and remember rules such as "A is for alert. Always be on alert for a stranger... B is for beware. Beware of tricks strangers may use... C is for code. You and your parents should always have a stranger danger code word or number... It has fun and helpful activities such as word search, multiple choice, fill in the blank questions, and more. It also has a safety names and numbers page so that your child can write down their safety names and numbers to further assist them in staying safe.
Lu won’t go with just anyone! Lu is waiting to be picked up after school. She stands on the sidewalk, all alone, and it starts to rain. Ms. Smith walks by, and offers to take her home. Ms. Smith lives in Lu’s neighborhood—but does Lu really know her? Lu asks herself, what’s her first name? Does she dye her hair red? What’s her dog’s name? And she says, “I don’t know you, so I won’t go with you! And besides, Mama said I should wait.” As other adults—all of whom Lu has met in some capacity before—offer to take her home, Lu continues to consider if she really knows them. One by one, she refuses to go with them. Until, finally, the person Mama said she should go home with shows up—though his appearance is a surprise to the reader! This sensitively narrated story illustrates how clear rules and arrangements can help protect and empower children during an especially vulnerable time of day. The ending includes a prompt for readers to create their own similar “safe” list, and a list of resources for parents.
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