OUT ALONE

Things Kids Should Know When Out Alone

To tell you where they will be at all times.
Not to enter anyone's home or isolated areas without your permission.
Not to accept gifts from strangers.
Never to approach or enter a stranger's car and to move away from a car that pulls up beside them if they do not know the driver
Never to take shortcuts through empty parks or fields. Isolated areas.
That if they are being followed, they should run home or go to the nearest public place and yell for help.
Always have children travel in pairs or in groups with more mature children.
That adults rarely ask a child for help.
That if they become separated from you at a grocery store or shopping mall, to go directly to a cashier of checkout-counter clerk.

To scatter their books and belongings if they are forced towards a building or car.
To yell “this is not my Father/Mother”.
To make as much noise as possible.
That it is okay to kick, bite, and scratch someone who is touching or grabbing them against their will.
That it is okay to break things to attract attention.
To lie down on the ground and make themselves as difficult to carry as possible.
To pick up stones, sand, bottles and sticks to throw at an adult that is trying to take them away somewhere.
To crawl under a car if one is nearby.
If they are in a car to open the door and try to escape when at a stop sign.
To run away at the first opportunity.

This information has been taken from pamphlets available to the public by RCMP and FBI