I remember watching this and how shocking it was.

We go through this often with our Punks, one of them is super shy and wouldn’t speak to an unknown adult anyway but the other is chatty and has no stranger danger — she’s our little worry! Just have to keep drumming it into them!

This brought back memories of what happened to me when I was about 5. I was with my cousin and a man asked us to help him find his puppy. He sent my cousin in one direction and took me with him. Needless to say I’ve been wary of people I don’t know, even after all these years. I made sure that my boys and my grandchildren all know about not going with people they don’t know.

It doesn’t surprise me as I’ve seen similar experiments like this on tv before. It does however, make me terribly anxious and upset to know how easily a stranger can fool a child. I guess we just have to keep educating the kids and supervise carefully.

My goodness, this makes me feel so sick. I have taught stranger danger to all my kids but God forbid, they never will be in such a situation.

I’ve seen experiments like these before and they are quite frightening. As parents, we think we’re teaching the right message, etc. only to view an experiment like this that is really confronting and makes us question what we’ve taught. They’re all new teaching moments.

My eldest son walks home from school on his own, It is only a short distance. He has a list of 4 people that he is allowed to get into the car with. Even if he knows somebody else he still can’t get into their car without it being prearranged, so that he doesn’t get confused.

Children are very trusting so these sort of things should be pointed out to them that they can’t trust anyone and they should check with mum before going anywhere,

Very scary times indeed and awareness campaigns should start at schools too

That is so scary! Children are so trusting, I will definitely be taking Brett’s advice

Aw so scary ! My youngest is 4,5yr and has Down syndrome. She has no stranger danger (or any danger awareness) at all and claps her hands then spreads her arms to get hugged by literally everyone. She’s beautiful, yet very scary in this. I can only keep her close and hope and pray that nothing goes wrong ever !

I saw an article yesterday saying to loudly and clearly shout that your child is missing but close by and describe in as much detail as possible what they look like and what they’re wearing if you lose them in public. Get as many people in on the search as you can and if someone has taken them they won’t risk being caught and will just leave them and walk away. It was a really good article.

My kids really do struggle with this concept. We talk about tricky people.

This story was only published today but when I clicked on the TODAY show link this came up This page isn’t available
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Grrrr I really wanted to see more.
Brett Lee made the comment about trusted and non trusted people but may I also point out that family members and friends can abuse as well.
Stranger danger is a very difficult issue.

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  It must have been just a temporary problem with the video. I saw it yesterday without any problem, and if I click it now, I can still see it.

Oh my. Just one kid went to look for his mum! That’s really scary. Yes, chocolate, lollies, talking about pets.. that’s how you gain a kid’s trust. Important to constantly talk to our kids about all the dangers out there.

Scary but goes to show we need to always be waThing our Children

What a difficult world we are living in. As if parenting isn’t hard enough. We need to be on our guard always.

A parents worst nightmare! But such a fine line teaching kids to beware of strangers and making them too scared to approach people when they need help.