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When should parents be discussing safety issues with their children?

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Nancy McBride
National Safety Director, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.missingkids.com  
1-800-THE-LOST

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42 U.S.C. §§ 5771 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 11606; 22 C.F.R. § 94.6),

The NCMEC serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children, operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation, provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children, assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals, distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide, coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector, networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases and provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure the protection of children.

When should parents be discussing safety issues with their children?

In this video series, Nancy McBride, the National Safety Director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children answers questions regarding personal child safety on topics ranging from the Internet, School safety, Holiday safety, and information about child identification. The Q&A provides helpful tips and tools for parents and guardians to help keep their children safer.

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Host: When should parents be discussing safety issues with their children?

Nancy McBride: We really should begin talking to your kids about safety when they can start putting words together and that make sense in the sentence if you will. So, you can teach them some basic information like checking first with you as the parent or guardian or being sure that they stay with you when you go out and about. So, some basics safety rules, pretty young.

But, what I do want to say here to parents and guardians is, do not forget your older kids. A lot of people think when their kids are at the age of 12 or 13, they have done their job, they are finished, those kids, it is going to safe, they know all the rules. keep in mind that those kids need to have the conversations with you just as much as the younger kids, because they are out there, they are making choices, they are making decisions, they want their freedom but sometimes they are not equipped to deal with that freedom. So, you never stop that conversation with your kids about safety.

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