Yesterday was a big wake up call for me in that I need to remind the boys about talking to strangers!
We has soccer practice, but it was only Lore, me and the kids. Gil was not feeling well, so he stayed home with the boys. We had a great practice, we ran 3/4 of a mile around the track and practiced some soccer drills. Lore's dad, Vinicio, helped us with a drill called keep away.
Then about one hour after we started our practice Erico, Elkin and Mia went to play on top of a little hill, which was not far from where I was sitting. And I told the kids that they had to stay on top of the hill so that I could see them. Well...... I see them start to go down the hill and then they disappeared to the other side where there was an older couple walking there dog. So I get up and go over there and have a few words with the older couple on how scary it is that my kids went to pet their dog without even saying anything to me.
So after the couple walked away, I knelt down by Erico and Elkin and I asked them in a cheerful voice, "Hey guys, did you know who those people were?" and Erico cheerfully responded back to me "no, who are they?" then I said "they were strangers." The look on Erico and Elkin's face looked like if they had been caught doing the worst thing ever! So I quickly explained to them that not all people are bad people, but we do not talk to strangers or go to strangers even if they have animals with them.
We will talking to them gain about the strangers thing and that sometimes bad peoples use animals to take kids away from their parents. Gil and I have talked to them about this many times, but it has been at least a year or so since we have. We will be working on this.......
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Don't talk to strangers!
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Hey Jodie! That was a wake up call huh. We have had the talk with Devin also, but the trick is telling him about the dangers of talking to strangers without instilling too much fear in him. I mean we don't want Devin to be scared and weary of all people. I think the way you handled it was good. I was in the grocery store one day and this little girl in a buggy (that was being pushed by her mom)said Hi to me. Her mom got so angry and told the child not to talk to me cuz I was a stranger. The little girl was like "I was just saying hi", but her mom said "I don't care don't ever talk to strangers!" It was kind of an awkward moment. I mean she was standing right there in between her child and me. Then another time a lady came up to Devin with me there and asked if she could say hey to him. She said she wasn't sure because her daughter didn't allow her grand children to talk to strangers especially when the strangers ask the kids their names. Anyway, some parents go to the extreme, but I can see why they would when you watch the news.
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