Years ago on one of the current affairs programs they had something along the lines of this for leaving with a stranger:
Give you child a secret word that only you and they know. If someone says "mum and dad asked me to pick you up from school today etc' the child needs to ask what the secret word is. If they can't tell them they don't go - probably easy for them to pick a child up and walk off but still worth considering. Also easier to explain to an older child.
Some great ideas in here and i have used mostly all of them over the years with my DS, i like the idea of walking with them and asking them what they feel about that person etc, good idea
After watching Oprah once though all my thoughts were out the window on my DS soaking any of what i said in! Every kid let them in or got in the car on that show!
Another one to tell your kids is 'Adults would never ask a child to find there dog or ask for directions anywhere, they would ask another adult'.
I have also told my DS if anyone ever grabs him to drop to the ground with all his weight and yell 'this is not my parent' over and over rather than yell 'help'
I've got the identikids bands also as my DS#1 is abit of a runner - although haven't used them yet.
As abit of an aside - how old were your kids when you started with the whole stranger danger talk and learning names, places, who to go to help for.???
I've lost Oscar once - in Target (that day i bought the indentikid bands!!!) - he was gone for a whole 5 minutes and it was the longest ever as he would have had no idea what to do and i was starting to panic but i guess 2 1/2 is too young - i don't want to frighten him and look at every stranger as a potential threat but would want him to notice if someone was being over friendly. Gosh it's so hard these days - our parents don't know how good they had it!!!
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