stranger danger

i so dont know but have been thinking about that lately esp after the little girl. we just got back from a xmas party with mum at the place she lives (for ppl with head injuries) and keegs is pretty warey of folk but not old jaidyn he loves meeting ppl and loves hanging with dudes and was handing out with this older guy there today with his family which i let him but keep a very close eye on him. will be willing to hear anyones ideas on this also for future use

It's so scary to think about those sorts of things - we don't have that problem with paris as she is pretty much shy and petrified of everybody new, and most of the people we have known for years as well. but she doe slike to run off sometimes, so we either have her in the buggy or trolley or one of us has her constantly. She knows her name and mummy and daddy's full name for if she ever got lost - but since she is so quiet, i'm not sure she would actually tell anyone.   I think it's never too young to start thinking about these sorta things - we have also gone along the same lines of the programmes they do in knidys.. eg, in our house, there are no secrets, only "happy surprises".. paris knows that we never keep secrets so if anything terrible ever happened to her at the hands of some idiot, i hope she would remember that rule.

geez they say kids in Nz are unhealthy.. lol. it's cos they can't even walk down the street, go to the park or walk to school safely anymore.. no wonder they stay inside all day playing video games instead of running and getting exercise outside. They get rides everywhere cos it's safer that way..

Edited by mum2paris

it is a hard one. my brothers are 11 and 13 years younger than me and when they were growing up ( they still are lol) i wouldnt let them go anywhere without my sister or myself, up until they were like 12!
the thing is, i hate seeing wee young kids walking to school by themselves, like as young as 5 thats ridiculous! its illegal for anyone under the age of 14 to be left home alone so why can children as young as five be legally(?) allowed to walk the streets by themselves?
my parents or uncle used to walk my sister and i to school when we were younger. the whole unhealthy kiddies thing is up to us to walk with the kids and supervise them,,, see this is where my brothers were soooo lucky coz their older sisters were just sooooo cool
lol, and at 13 and 15 they still wanna hang with me, awwww thats kewl
lol

Edited by faewie

No way will Maya be walking to school by herself at 5 (or probably even 10 - I am such an anal mother lol). Apart from the whole stranger danger thing, what about road safety? A 5 year old doesn't really grasp the whole crossing the road/cars pulling out of driveways etc. thing.

Maya too is quite shy with strangers (although she surprises me sometimes). She knows her full name, and mine and Willie's but like Janine I'm not sure if she would tell a stranger if she was lost.

I do write my mobile # on her arm in vivid when we are out in crazy places tho just in case (like Xmas in the park).