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Teach your children to talk to strangers

Dismantling 'The Rule'

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Sidse Powell
Jul 16, 2023
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Never talk to strangers. Is that one of the rules you learned as a child?  There are a number of touted truths we hear as children and repeat as adults, all in the name of keeping children safe. Never talk to strangers is one of them. 

After writing, The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker put together another practical and usable book called, Protecting the G…

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