How to Protect Children From Kidnapping and
How to Teach Stranger Safety Skills
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When an abduction attempt hits the news – or, worse yet, if a young person is kidnapped – a wave of sorrow and fear goes through parents, schools, and communities. Teaching children about “stranger danger” does not protect them from kidnapping and can make them worried without making them safer. Just lecturing young people about safety or just showing them what to do is not enough.
Raising awareness about potential danger without raising knowledge and skills for staying safe can cause anxiety. You can protect your kids from most abduction attempts and other safety problems both with people they know and people they don’t by knowing what to watch out for and how to prepare them before letting them go anywhere on their own without adult protection.
Giving kids opportunities to practice safety skills successfully helps to increase their confidence and competence and to reduce their anxiety. Kidpower teaches how to do this in a way that is not scary, but is fun. Scroll down for articles, videos, podcasts, publications, and workshops that show how to protect children from kidnapping and teach them to be safe with strangers.
Free Library and Blog
- Articles on: Protecting Children from Abduction/Kidnapping, Safety with Strangers and People Children Know, Resisting the "Illusion of Safety", What Adults Need to Know About Personal Safety for Children, What if a Sex Offender is Living in Our Neighborhood?, What Children Need to Know if They Cannot Get Away at First, How to Pick a Good Self-Defense Program, Tools for Empowering Children to Explore Their World with Safety and Confidence,
- Blog articles include Kidnapping - What We Can Do to Keep Our Kids Safe, How to Keep Your Kids Safe Without Hovering, What Might Have Helped Protect Jaycee Dugard?
Free Videos and Podcasts
- Why Kidpower? Everybody Deserves to Feel Safe!
- TV Interview on San Francisco Talk Show View from the Bay about Bullying Prevention
- Podcasts on What Rhymes with Stranger?, Safety Tools for Safety Problems, Looking Around and Not at the Ground, What is People Safety, and Your Internal Safety Alarm
Low Cost Publications
- Our store offers a number of publications showing how to teach children to be safe without being upsetting. We have cartoon-illustrated Safety Comics that adults can read with their children, Teaching Kits for teaching skills to groups, our Kidpower Guide for Parents and Teachers e-book, and Training Manuals.
In-Person Workshops, Long Distance Seminars, and Personal Coaching for Families, Schools, and Organizations
See our California services or other locations for our in-person services with a wide range of public and privately organized workshops that give our students the opportunity to practice social-emotional and self-defence skills that help them learn how to protect their emotional and physical safety, gain confidence, and build better relationships. For information about our long-distance seminars and personal coaching sessions that can be conducted anywhere by video-conferencing, email, or telephone, please contact us.
"A man jumped out of the bushes at my nine-year-old daughter, who was rollerblading to school, and ordered her to come with him. If she had not had your training, I think she would have collapsed and cried. Instead, she shouted, “NO!” and rollerbladed all the way to safety, which was her teacher at school."