Protect your children - pass it on!

@Auntylou (4264)
Oxford, England
January 12, 2016 10:06am CST
My cousin in America just posted this true story and I thought I should share. "A stranger approached an 8 year old girl and asked her to come with him. He told her that her mum had sent him to pick her up. The girl asked the stranger for the Password. The man got confused and the little girl ran away. The girl and her mum had agreed on a password in case she ever had to send someone to pick her up" Forward thinking that may well have saved a young girl's life. Isn't this great?
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@LadyDuck (471272)
• Switzerland
12 Jan 16
This is a wonderful idea, all the Moms and Dads should agree on a special word or a phrase, so that they can feel safe following someone.
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@LadyDuck (471272)
• Switzerland
13 Jan 16
@Auntylou Absolutely, something easy to remember but that only your grandson and his parents know.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
@LadyDuck I feel like telling the world about this idea
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
I must tell my son to do the same when our grandson starts school
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• United States
12 Jan 16
Teaching children about stranger danger is one thing but having a secret password is genius
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
It is so clever and an easy thing to copy
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
12 Jan 16
What a great idea, and so simple.
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@lokisdad (4226)
• United States
13 Jan 16
I am so glad that parents are not leaving their children so gullible anymore. The more you teach them the less chances of someone bad fooling them and later hurting them.
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@lokisdad (4226)
• United States
13 Jan 16
@Auntylou my kids know about stranger danger. They have been told to scream fire. My son said that doesn't make sense why would i yell fire if i am getting kidnapped why wouldn't i scream help? Lol we said when you hear someone scream fire what do you do? He said uh run and see where the fire is so i can get away from it.I said exactly you want people to hear you so that they come running when they don't see the fire and see you screaming someone will help.He then said thats a really a smart idea. i never would have thought of that.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
This is such a sensible idea, and a great one to share
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
12 Jan 16
That is a great idea implemented by the parent. She didn't have to explain all the complexities behind how a stranger can approach....so a password for whoever came to pick her up
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
I agree that this does without the need to go into the sort of detail that might worry a child,while still giving them protection
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@Gamic01 (88)
• Laguna, Philippines
13 Jan 16
I have also read that story sometime ago and shared with my kids. Such a great mum to have that idea! Haven't tried to have same password thing with my kids but made them more aware and more careful with the strangers.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
You often hear of children being duped to be picked up by strangers, this clever idea makes that much harder
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
@Gamic01 Some people are so wicked, anything we can do to thwart them, the better
• Laguna, Philippines
13 Jan 16
@Auntylou True. Just right now, I have read 2 such incidents happened yesterday in a mall. One incident is that a 2-year old girl was duped using candies by a teenager girl and hasn't found yet. The other incident is a 4-year old boy. He was abducted by a man inside the mall and passed to the other man in vehicle outside the mall, cut his hair and changed into a girl clothes. Luckily, the young boy was rescued by a friend of his mom.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
12 Jan 16
That is good to hear and possibly saved the little girls life. More parents should tell their children this and have their own password.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
13 Jan 16
@Auntylou It is very simple but potentially life saving is correct. A marvelous idea.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
I am hoping that everyone who sees this will tell several others. it is so simple but potentially life saving
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
13 Jan 16
What a simple but effective precaution. I do hate child predators.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
My younger son once slipped out of the house and onto the street when he was about three. His grandma who was living with us at the time found him with one foot on the open door of a car with a woman driver. She called him and he came, and the car sped away. So lucky..
• Calgary, Alberta
13 Jan 16
This is some smart parenting in the girl's parents part. I had heard many tragic stories that ends up in terrible crimes because children trusted strangers. A password is a good way to make sure a child can trust the stranger or not.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
Do tell other people of this idea, so that more children can be saved!
@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
12 Jan 16
Oh wow! that's amazing bit of thinking! password is a great idea!
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
13 Jan 16
@Auntylou Deffo!
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
Please tell your friends!
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@just4him (317040)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Jan 16
It is. Smart thinking on the part of the mother as well to think about a password.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
14 Jan 16
Please tell your friends and neighbours!
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
13 Jan 16
It's sad that we need to teach our children to be so distrusting of strangers. Still, most abductions of children are not by strangers, but someone the child knows and trusts.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
In the case of parental abductions , though, the children are not usually harmed, at least physically.
@JudyEv (339461)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jan 16
This is a great idea. You don't really want children to be scared stiff of everyone but somehow you need to keep them safe.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
I think that the way the mother did this allowed her daughter to be safe without being worried beforehand
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
12 Jan 16
It's a hugely great idea. I'm am so glad my kids are now grown men. The worry when they were young had me so stressed out.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
You must tell them about this for when they have children @fishtiger!
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
13 Jan 16
@Auntylou I sure will
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• United States
12 Jan 16
That is a great idea for children..hope they would remember it if the horror comes to them.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
Yes, remembering is key, but it is not like us having many passwords, and children's memories are generally good
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
13 Jan 16
It is and everyone should be teaching their child the same thing.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
I thought I would share to pass on this simple tip, @Jabo and @BelleStarr
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@RasmaSandra (79648)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Jan 16
@Auntylou that is a really great idea. Kids need all the protection they can get.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
And this involves nothing expensive or complicated!
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
12 Jan 16
@Auntylou - - everything is computerized these days!
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
13 Jan 16
They did have passwords in far off times too, but in the modern context, they are everywhere
• Midland, Michigan
30 Jan 16
Yes, I've heard of this before. I don't know where it got started, but it would be quite odd indeed if a true stranger happened to guess the password the first time.
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@Rohvannyn (3098)
• United States
29 Jan 16
We had a password when I was a kid. I wasn't to open the door unless I heard the name of a certain tree.
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