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Mom Finally Gets It Right

April 25, 2006

Tonight, my boys and a friend of theirs were approached by a stranger. The man was a stereotypically creepy guy wearing stereotypically creepy clothes driving a stereotypically creepy car. The three boys were playing in the front yard when this man stopped his car and signaled for the boys to approach him. The boys immediately ran to the house to get me, but by the time I got outside, the car was gone.

I filed a police report, spoke with an officer who was dispatched to our subdivision, and talked to a lot of my neighbors. They all seemed a lot more upset about the whole thing than I was. I had been a little afraid I was overreacting, but then, it seems highly unlikely that a strange man would approach three children with innocent intentions. The “what ifs” didn’t hit me until later. I also wonder if some of the other parents fear that their child would not have reacted the same way my boys did.

My boys are the only children in our area who play outside with a sibling. The other five kids are either an only child or have siblings who are much older or too young to play outside without supervision. All the kids play together, but we have a built-in buddy system that, I feel, makes my children less approachable. Then again, Mr. Creepo approached a group of three tonight.

My kids may not excel at reading or writing, but I’ve always felt pretty confident they would do the right thing if approached by a stranger. I will allow myself a pat on the back for teaching them this one thing well.

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4 Responses to “Mom Finally Gets It Right”

  1. Oz Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 2:37 pm

    Good job! See, you are a good teacher!

  2. Janet Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 5:56 pm

    This reminds me of an episode from Desperate Housewives. She keeps trying to instill in her boys not to go with strangers, no matter what they say or do. I think she hires a decoy to test this theory and of course, they fail miserably.

    Luckily that was fiction and this is truth.:)

  3. Whimsy Chick Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 9:13 pm

    I always make up scenarios to try to let the boys know what kind of tricks a stranger would use. And they’ve been instructed that if they’re ever separated from me and they’re afraid, they should find a woman with children to help.

    We’ve talked about our strategies again since last night.

  4. D.T. Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 10:21 pm

    I remember this one time in 3rd grade, Officer Friend came to our classroom to teach us the danger of strangers. One of his reccomendations was to use a secret code word that only you and your family knew, that way you could determine friend from foe.

    At the end of the lesson, the officer quizzed us on our newly found knowledge, and asked my friend Brianna to come to the front, pretending he was a stranger.

    OFFICER: Hey, you!
    BRIANNA: Hi!
    OFFICER: Come over here. I have some nice candy!
    BRIANNA: What’s my secret family code?

    OMG! I burst out laughing! Cuz I totally imagine a creepy stranger asking her to go for a ride with them, and her asking the stranger for the secret family code…

    So, yeah. It’s totally cool that your sons know the right protocol! Way to go Kerrie!

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