 PRIVACY POLICY Keeping Kids Safe is a comprehensive personal safety course covering the full gamut of the things kids need to know today to be safe in their environment. We are UNIQUE. Our entire APPROACH to child safety is unique. Some of the ideas we use you have heard. Some of the techniques we have you have seen. What we do is put it all together in a very effective and unique way. One, we teach kids to keep themselves safe. Two, we teach parents to reinforce our safety techniques at home by making families better. We are CONTROVERSIAL. We believe safe kids are confident, appear healthy, stand tall and look people in the eye when they speak. Kids that appear confident are less of a target for predators. Kids knowing how to “play” they are confident, kids that can appear confident, are on track to being confident. Confidence builds at home. Parents are responsible for building confidence. Many parents whose kids are not confident don’t want to hear that. Many parents do not continue with Keeping Kids Safe because they do not like this idea pointed out to them. What about you? And there’s more. We also have a very different view of STRANGERS and how kids should deal with them. Stemming from this idea, we think it’s “Ok” to TALK TO STRANGERS. Kids can talk to strangers because we teach them two important things: 1. How to keep a 15’ to 20’ Circle Of Safety. 2. What to talk to strangers about. The standard Circle of Safety taught to most children is about 8’ to 12’ in size. When an adult rushes full speed to grab a child, there is not enough time for them to turn and run to safety before they are caught. The larger 15’ to 20’ Circle Of Safety we teach gives even the smallest child ample room and time to run to safety with a fast adult charging at them. In terms of talking to strangers, there is a simple rule we teach kids: TALK TO STRANGERS ONLY ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE THEIR BUSINESS. Things like full names, phone numbers, address, school, are your parents home, etc. are never discussed with strangers. Why? IT’S NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS! While this line always gets a huge laugh from the kids in class its true. It makes the point with them. A stranger 15’ away can ask directions and a child can answer. The question is generic. A child can give their first name. First names are generic. A child can say “Hi!” Anything beyond this is “None of their business.” We also teach children that ADULTS SHOULD NEVER ASK THEM FOR HELP. Big, strong adults need help from other adults if they are really having problems. If an adult stranger asks a child to “help” them find their dog, carry their groceries to a car, limp over to a bench to get off a sore ankle, kids are taught to say “No!” If an adult asks a child for help we teach them to refuse politely and move on their way. We have incorporated into our Keeping Kids Safe program 9 EASY GETAWAYS that even children as young as four can implement in the terrible event they are grabbed. In class, we can teach kids all these safety techniques but the real progress in our program is at home with strong families and strong parents. The more YOU reinforce what we teach and believe the more you child will actually become focused, confident and safer. The Keeping Kids Safe® program covers: • Mental Focus • Self confidence • Being the best they can be • Communication • Awareness of their immediate environment • Effective social interaction with peers • Kids understanding themselves and their place in the world • Appropriate actions and reactions to situations they may encounter • Thinking about ones own safety • Thinking about other’s safety • Circle Of Safety • I Can Talk To Strangers • 9 Easy Getaways Notice the order of these in our program: personal growth through confidence building, then actual safety techniques. When a child is confident there are actual structural changes that take place both mentally and physically with them. They stand taller, move their bodies better and with more control, they can focus better. This means our safety techniques become that much more effective. A confident child is a safer child!
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