[quote]A 6-year-old boy’s mother, grandmother and aunt are accused of staging a kidnapping, then holding the child for four hours to teach him about “stranger danger.”
They hatched the plot to scare the boy because they said he was “too nice” to people, police said.[/quote]
[quote]The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Hupp, grandmother, Rose Brewer, and aunt, Denise Kroutil, engaged the help of Nathan Firoved, who worked with Kroutil at a gas station.
Firoved waited for the boy to get off his bus after school, then lured the child into his pickup, police say.
While in the truck, Firoved, 23, told the boy he would never “see his mommy again,” and he would be “nailed to the wall of a shed,” police said.
As the boy started to cry, Firoved showed him a handgun and told the child if he didn’t stop crying he would hurt him[/quote]
[quote]Later, Firoved took the boy — still blindfolded — to the basement of the boy’s home and left him there.
The boy’s aunt, Kroutil, removed his pants and told him he could be sold into “sex slavery.” She also chastised him because he did not try to resist her. He did not recognize her voice.[/quote]
How would you talk to your children(lol) about "Stranger Danger"?
It's hard talking with children about potentially scary things without scaring/traumatizing them.
So how would you do it?
I'd say staging a kidnapping isn't going to have a positive outcome.
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Scarring this kid for life isn't going to help him, at all. Why not just teach him conventionally? Like, 'use common sense, don't get into a person's car that you don't know?'