How to teach your child safety so they don't fall victim to violence

The child can be explained for a long time danger communication with strangers and / or not well-behaved people, but the basis should be three rules. From you need to memorize and repeat many times in a playful way, recreating a possible situation.

1. No
2. Run
3. Tell

These are three axioms that a child must remember better than anything in order to protect himself from violence.

It is important that the child has at least one close person whom he can confide in in any situation. Ideal if parents. But they often act as strict judges for any reason (and this situation is corrected after years), so that a confidant can become a grandmother, grandfather, older brothers and sisters, another close relative.

Often pedophiles take advantage of the fact that the victim is lost and does not know how to behave (in fact, the same thing happens to adults). Therefore, the child must automatically memorize how to act if an adult or an older child proposes to show intimate parts of the body or similar "games".

Definitely the first reaction should be "no". With a swing, a threat to start a fight, with shouts. The child should not be ashamed to shout (this, of course, is a stone in the garden of those parents who teach the child to always be quiet).

The child needs to be taught to say directly that someone's actions hurt him and needs to be stopped. Because pedophiles do not always drag them into the bushes - they can, by the way, rub themselves in public transport or in line. And the child should declare loudly and confidently that this does not suit him.

It is also important to teach your child to distinguish between good and bad secrets. After all, usually pedophiles try to convince the victim that what is happening should remain their shared secret.

Therefore, the child should feel the difference: we are preparing a surprise for mom's birthday - a good secret, we must be silent. And any actions from outsiders that relate to physical intimacy and genitals are a bad secret that urgently needs to be told.

Repeated explanation and repetition of "no, run, tell", an explanation that no one to the intimate parts of the body has the right to touch, playing possible situations can protect the child from such encroachments in the future.

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