Blog: Could These Shoes Put Your Child in Danger?
Children are being taught how to respond if someone shows up to their school with a gun, leading this mother to contemplating getting rid of her son's light-up shoes.
I had a conversation with my 7-year-old daughter today about Stranger Danger. What triggered the conversation? Her pleas to not let her little brother wear his favorite light-up gym shoes to school. My thoughts were, ”I just spent $50 on his shoes. He loves them. He is going to wear them.” She responded quickly with a prescribed “Stranger Danger” plan that she learned from school. It wasn’t the typical “Don’t take candy from a guy in a van” type of speech that has been rattled off across kitchen tables across America over the decades. Instead, she told what to do if a stranger with a gun enters her school. I think this is where my heart skipped a beat. I couldn’t believe my ears! She proceeded to tell me that if a stranger carrying a gun…
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Joel Craig
2:06 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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