Understand Stranger Danger at Theme Parks

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village and we're talking about different ways to help keep our family safe at theme parks. One of the things that you're really going to want to have to sit down and discuss with your child before you go to a theme park is stranger danger. Theme parks can really seem like very magical places to a child and everything is very happy and fun and wonderful at a theme park and it really can sort of encourage a child to let their guard down. You really need to be clear with a child that a stranger is a stranger is a stranger and even though they're in a theme park they should be very careful about who they talk to and that they are never to go off anywhere into any area with a stranger. If a stranger comes up to them and says that their child is lost and asks your child for help, you really need to tell your child that that is absolutely not a safe person for them to be in sort of contact with. Tell them that a responsible adult would never ask a child for help of any kind whether it's to finding a lost dog or a lost child and that anything like that, anybody approaching them in that way should set off all the alarms in them and that they should contact you and tell you immediately that this has happened. Just be sure that you remind them, you know yes we want to go, we want to have fun and that we want to be friendly and that everybody is there most likely to have a good time but all of the same old rules of stranger danger apply at theme parks as they do in everyday life."