How to help your child stop a conversation with a stranger: 5 Steps

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Strangers may appear before the child anywhere: in the playground in the yard, in kindergarten, going to school. It is important that the son or daughter were ready to act properly if the "alien" will be on their way and entered into the conversation. As the child understand that the situation is dangerous and quickly end the conversation with a stranger - it is enough to make 5 steps.

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The meeting of this format is to be processed and rehearsed in advance, so that the child was not taken aback.

STEP 1. assess the situation

The child is important to calculate that in front of him a stranger, and to understand, this situation dangerous, safe or relatively safe. In advance, discuss with the child: for example, a foreign teacher in a garden, it works in the other group, but you can see it every day - danger on the territory of the garden it is not. Also a teacher in the school who can ask the child from what he class or the name of his class teacher.

Another thing - quite a strange person, regardless of age and gender - male, female, girl, girl, boy, grandfather. If we have "foreign", should behave the same care here on such a scheme.

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STEP 2. Keep the distance

It is important to stand by a stranger at a distance of 2-2.5 m - then you can see the behavior of a "foreign" and leave quickly. Home show your child how much is 2 meters - "rehearse" this distance, and warned that it during a conversation you need to save. If a stranger takes a step forward - a step back from him or leave / run away in a safe direction.

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STEP 3. Stop talking on the 5th second

The child must know that "bad aliens" are able to swing not only children but even adults, so it is important to decide how quickly to withdraw to a safe place after 5-7 seconds after the start conversation. This "dialogue" with the child rehearse every detail - both at home and on the street.

- Hey, soldier!

- Hello! (A child sees a stranger, and assesses the situation: someone else - keep your distance - Waste 2 meters - look, where you can leave quickly).

- Look, there, in the yard, such glorious puppies / my house is such an interesting game - come on, show. Or - here somewhere machine lost my son, help me find, maybe she rolled away in the cellar.

- I can not, I just called Dad - it's worth it (interrupting the conversation without waiting for an answer or a farewell stranger - the child quickly, not allowing to finish the stranger, the child goes out quickly).

STEP 4. We leave in a safe place

At this stage it is important to quickly run to the side standing / walking near the people, to the playground, to run to the store, a pharmacy, hairdresser (any lighted place where there are people), go to class, go to familiar people - mothers and fathers or friends neighbors.

STEP 5.The security people and inform parents what happened, telling all the details.

And that is an important lesson to the children you have held as soon as possible, look at the video the experiment, when the stranger manages to divert children with a playground in an unknown direction in a matter of seconds.

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