How can I help my child learn safety rules?
When you teach kids about safety, and there are things that are potentially life-threatening about, for example, strangers that may come in contact with them, I actually test them. The way I would do that is if you can get kids to come with you by using a variety of different lies. You can say, "Your mom got hurt in a car accident and she's in the hospital and she asked me to come get you." Nine out of ten kids, depending on the age, will get in your car and go with you. There's many ways to trick kids. I would go onto our website, I would download that information about what tricks paedophiles use and predators use to get hold of kids. After they learn it, I'd test them. I'll send people my kids don't know to school and see if they can pick them up. I'll do that if they're at the mall. If they don't fall for it, then you know it, and if they do fall for it, it's a good idea that it's not somebody who's actually going to hurt them. Then you can sit down with them and say, "Now, this is a friend of mine that you don't know, that just talked you into getting into their car. This could be very dangerous for you, because most people that are coming in contact with you that want to take you somewhere aren't doing it for your benefit." You need to explain to them why, and explain to them what to do about it. I test them. I don't just say, "Here's the safety information. Tell me the right answer." I'll test them and see if they really will.
