It’s important to teach kids about stranger safety. In the past this may have been called “stranger danger,” however using this terminology implies all strangers are dangerous, and anyone they know is not dangerous. Perhaps the topic should be called “personal safety.” Kids need to know what to do in tricky situations whether the adult…

All parents have likely experienced it at least once. You are somewhere big and crowded and your child gets lost. One minute your child is right there with you while you dig through the clearance rack. The next minute, he or she is nowhere to be found. In almost every one of these cases, the…