Although we want to avoid thinking about a situation that puts your children at risk, letting them know what to do can save them!
A mother shared a story on her social networks that could have happened to anyone. Jodie Norton woke up feeling sick one day, decided to go to the hospital, but since she couldn’t leave her four children alone at home, she took them with her.
She called a friend to go to the hospital to stay with her little ones while she was with the doctor, but what she did not know is that her friend would arrive 40 minutes later because he was far from the place. Jodie entered the emergency room and left the older ones (ages 10 and 8) on a bench outside the hospital to wait for their friend.
During that time, three strangers tried to get the children to go to the bathroom with them. The strangers told them that they needed their help to convince one of their friends to get out of the bathroom and let the doctor examine him. The children were not fooled, all the time they were told? No thanks? until they gave up.
The children knew what to do because she taught them the concept of “suspicious people.” These are not necessarily all strangers. So it is important that you always talk to your little ones about dangers and malicious people, they should not trust anyone and always say “no”.