If your child goes missing in a store, the first place you should look is probably not where you’d think. Where was the first place Adam Walsh’s parents searched when the 6-year-old child went missing at [...]

Trying to “fix” your child’s shyness may cause more harm than good. I recently read in an advice column of a woman who complained that her husband would make his child sit in the laps [...]

“Is it okay to make my child hug people against his or her will?” NO, NO and NO! This article is about making (requiring, forcing) your child to “give a hug” to either someone they [...]

Pedophiles often use candy to lure their child victims. Here's how to teach young children to refuse candy being offered by a "nice" stranger! A predator with half a brain will always have a bag [...]

Your teenaged daughter may be too old to fall for the lost puppy ruse, sick mommy ruse and offers-of-candy ruse by a pedophile. But this doesn’t mean she’s out of the woods as far as [...]

Here’s fantastic advice on how to role play with your kids so they can be as resistant to abduction lures as possible. The dangers of strangers come in all forms, and this article will explain [...]

Here are very clever projects that will help kids understand what a stranger really is & how to sense danger and have more awareness for safety. Perhaps you’ve warned your children, “Don’t talk to strangers!” [...]

Preschoolers are actually NOT too young to learn some concepts about stranger danger. A child psychiatrist explains how parents can go about teaching their very young ones about basic safety. The preschool age is usually [...]