Teaching children about strangers used to focus mainly on people they might encounter at a park, store, or while walking home. Today, those conversations also need to include people children meet online. Games, social media, messaging apps, and other connected platforms can introduce kids to people they have never met in person. At the same…

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…