Strangers Mean Danger

So everyone who lives in our state probably knows about the missing 7 year old little girl. Well, it has had me absolutely sick to my stomach. I have a 7 yr old little girl, with missing front teeth just like the one that is missing. It really hits close to home when you have a child similar to one that is in trouble. I can’t even imagine in any way the pain and fear her poor parents must be feeling. To make matters worse, they just moved here last year and have a major language barrier.

I could hardly wait for Hallie to get home from school today. I just hugged her, and loved her and decided to test her and Gavin’s knowledge of stranger danger. I think I kind of freaked them out a little. I showed them the pictures of the missing little girl. Then I gave them several scenarios of what they would do in a stranger situation. I asked them, “Well, what if they offered candy?” Gavin hesitated a little on that one, of course. I asked them, “what if the person said they would kill your mommy and daddy if you didn’t do what they said?” Hallie really stalled on that one. I had to convince her that they would be lying if they said that.

Well, of course Hallie is a little older and they had just had an assembly in her school about drugs, alcohol and strangers. She had to tell me all the stories she had heard. Then she says, “what if all the people in the world were zapped except me and all the bad people in the world? What do you think they would do to me?” ooooohhhhh Hallie-----I’m thinking…please stay on earth with me for a second. Then of course Gavin has his own terrible fantasy and said, “what if I got throwed in a zoo with a tiger and it ate me?” Well, Kayler, upon hearing the word tiger started saying, “Grrr. Grrr. Tiga” Me feeling like our very serious conversation had taken a wrong turn had to stop their giggling at Kayler and each other and made them repeat like 10 times- “STRANGERS MEAN DANGER!”

I had warned them of strangers many times in the past, and it has backfired a little. Now, everywhere we go and there are people that I know, but they don’t, my kids just hide behind me. I don’t know if they are just shy, or afraid. It kind of bugs me that they don’t even dare talk to adults, but I guess you can never be too safe.

So please pray for the missing little girl. Make sure that all of you have had the stranger talk to your kids. Also, check out this website, it has a list of all the sex offenders and other serious criminals in your area. Kinda freaky, but a really good thing to know. http://www.familywatchdog.us/

-oh yeah. Minus 2 lbs…hooray, must have weighed myself with a lot of water in me, because 2 lbs in one day is just too good to be true!