The Danger With Stranger Danger

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><u><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Show Notes</span></u></strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Overblown parental fears regarding stranger danger adds undo anxiety to children and zaps their confidence.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every generation has offered things for parents to worry about including: abductions, teen predators, cyberbullying, online predators, Aids, STDs, teen pregnancy, social media, war of drugs, and vaping.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kids have</span> <span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> learned that the need a phone to feel safe and to have constant connection with their parents up to and thru the college years. After 9-11, parents vowed to never let their kids be disconnected from them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Dr. Jordan describes the lessons past generations of kids learned by being out on the streets and in the woods without adult supervision.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Debunking stranger danger</span></strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Far more kids are seriously injured and killed by family members than by strangers</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Majority of missing kids are runaways fleeing from physical or emotionally abusive parents; most of the rest are kids