[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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[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?[/quote] That's a super tough one. I imagine if they're at a point where they do anything without me being nearby I'll talk to them about it. I'd say that not everyone is nice and some people will do bad things to people. I'll tell them that they should never enter a private place with someone who I don't know and that they should do their best to only get help from someone who works at whatever place we're at so they don't leave. Also I'll probably give them a basic phone so they can call me or the police if they need to. The thought of losing a kid is brutal.