Let the children participate as much as possible this way they will not feel as if they are being lectured to. Never say an answer is wrong or use the word "no" in response to an answer. Always be positive. Make sure they are involved.

Who is a stranger?

A stranger is someone you have never met before; a person you may have seen before, but whom you don’t know anything about (for example, someone you’ve seen walking in your neighborhood); or a person whom your parents don’t know well.

Are all strangers bad?

What do strangers look like?

Strangers can be men or women, young or old. They can have any color skin. Some are tall and skinny; some are short and fat. Some are pretty and some are not so pretty. They can speak different languages. Most strangers are nice, but some strangers are mean. Because you don’t know if someone is a good stranger or a bad one, you should not talk to anyone you don’t know.

True or false. Everyone who dresses nice is a nice person.
   False

What do you do if a stranger comes up to you?
   Run Away

What do you do if someone follows you?
   Go inside a store

   Go to where there are a lot of people

   Go to an adult you can trust

Who can you trust?
   Neighbors that your parents know pretty well

   Police Officers

   Firemen

What do you do if you loose tract of your mom or your dad or who ever you are with in a store or while you are at a park?

You may be scared, but your Mom or Dad (or the grown-up you were with) will come looking for you. Walking around makes it harder for them to find you. Stay where you are and tell a Police Officer, Security Guard or store employee (in uniform or name tag) that you are lost and need help. If you are inside a store, library, etc do not go outside; stay inside so that you can be found.

Do you know your Mom or Dad’s first and last names?

Do you know your address and phone number by heart?

What do you do if someone knocks on the door?

Do you ever answer the door to a stranger?

Tell an adult who is at home. If a grown-up is not at home, do not open the door.

Don’t even ask who it is. Ignore the knock, and wait for an adult who lives with you. If it’s important, the person will come back later. If a grown-up is there but is busy (in the yard, in the shower, asleep), tell the grown-up and let him or her answer the door. Do not open the door yourself?

When someone calls and asks for your mom or your dad or an adult that you live with and that adult is not there, what do you say?

This is something that each family might have their own rule about. One suggestion is to answer the phone politely. If Mom or Dad is close by, ask the caller to wait while you get them. If an adult is not available (in the yard, in the shower, asleep) say, "Everyone is busy. Please call back." NEVER SAY YOUR ALONE.

What if someone says that your mom or dad or brother or sister or aunt or uncle told him or her to pick you up and you don’t know them? Do you go with them?

Have a secret code word that only you and your parents know, if that person were really there to pick you up then they would know the code word. A secret code word is a word that only you and your parents know. If there is an emergency and someone you don’t know has to pick you up from school or from a friend’s house, ask that person the secret code word. If he or she doesn’t know the secret code word, don’t go. Get away and go to a grown-up you know and trust for help.