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Hi everyone, Melissa, CloudMom.com, talking today about strangers. How do you teach your children what they should do when it comes to strangers that they might meet in public? I tend to be a very friendly and open person. I'm always chatting with people, saying hello, engaging with them, and I want my children to be that way, but I really want them to understand that when it comes to strangers they need to be very careful nonetheless. And I think about this a lot too, because I'm often in the park with all my kids and it's very hard to watch all of them, even though I try to watch them like a hawk, inevitably one of them will run off. So we have had to establish these ground rules. I've jotted them down here in my notes. I'm going to run through them with you now, okay? Here are the ground rules for strangers in my house: number one, you never go anywhere with a stranger. And you never get in a car with a stranger, even if they offer you a toy. Number two, you never take food, candy or gifts of any sort from a stranger. Number three, if an adult stranger asks you for help, you get away from him and you go tell another adult and seek for them to protect you. Number four, if a stranger tries to grab you, you try to get away. You shout, "HELP!" as loud as you can. You try to run for a public place and seek out another adult. Then, generally, when you're in a public place like a park, you always stay close to your mommy and daddy, or your babysitter, and you make sure that you are within view. We run into this all the time, because my kids love to run down the sidewalk. I'm like, "No, you cannot go around the corner. I have to see you. You have to see me." Not too far away. Okay, here's another thing. I've started to do this and a friend of mine actually came up with a really great idea with this. Make your kids memorize your cell phone number. And what she does, is she gives them a song. She puts it to a tune with her cell phone number. So at least by the age of like 5 or 6, they have her cell phone number and they know it by heart. So anyway, not a happy topic today here, but I think it's really, really important. It's not one of those things you bring up every day, but you really have to think about it and come up with your own ground rules. So this is what we've done in my family, but I want to hear what's going on in your family. What do you say? What do you do? At what stage have you started to talk about this with your kids? Please comment below. You can also tweet me on Twitter, and thank you so much for watching CloudMom.