parents do you teach your children the
art of de-escalation escape and
avoidance I sure hope so welcome to
today's active self-protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa today's video
comes to us from Vacaville California in
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description the teen in the upper left
corner is just walking home where you
see this guy and pull up in a car and
start talking to her he starts wanting
to interact with her but she stays on
the other side of the pickup truck so
she's gonna be like nope I really don't
want to talk to this guy said he tried
to say something to her if you go read
the news story linked in the description
she's like nope I didn't answer him or
anything like that so he goes off down
the block but she hangs out here at the
back of this pickup truck for a while
watching him and he turns the car around
comes back around to the other side when
he does she walks around to the other
side actually on her phone I think
texting with an adult there and as he
pulls off she runs off and runs to go
get help now police are looking for this
guy if you know anything make sure you
get ahold of the police department so
again he pulls up and she keeps the
truck between them now I will say the
police have said there's really no crime
that's been committed here but they do
want to talk to this guy and I think
that there are a ton of lessons that we
can teach our kids out of this one some
cues that we can give our children and
show our children in this video so make
sure that you hang with me for the
lessons here afterwards because there's
some interesting stuff here so I love
the fact that she comes around and uses
the truck to keep herself shielded from
this guy and then runs when the
opportunity presents itself great job
girl a very very resourceful child I
want to ask you but question about this
hit me a comment in in below and let me
know do you talk to your children about
active self-protection I'm not
necessarily saying letting them watch
the channel it's pretty violent for
little ones but do you talk to them
about the principles of self-defense I
want to know what you're thinking here I
have four kids that are all a little bit
older I certainly have done so in my
life and that's what we're gonna talk
about today in our lessons first thing
mom and dad I want you to talk with your
kids about here is that it certainly
appears to me that this young girl is
not buried in her phone while she's
walking in a public space that sidewalk
is a transitional space and she seems to
be head up paying attention to her world
can't tell you enough tell your kids
particularly your teens and teens love
their smart devices and I get that I
love mine too but when you're in a
public space like this put your phone in
your pocket and pay attention to your
world and she is doing just that and
that alone is probably 95 percent of the
battle teach your kids to be curious of
their world now when this guy comes and
starts talking to her and asking her
questions she does a couple of great
things here number one she keeps the
truck between her and him and does not
get sucked into this where our kids are
taught to respect adults and I think
that that's good and that's wise however
I want you to teach your children no
adult needs help from a child adults do
not need help from children so a guy
pulling over and going hey can you help
me or whatever can I ask you a question
adults don't need help from kids so the
kids are under no obligation to offer
help to an adult because this is a huge
warning sign a huge danger sign to
children that something is wrong and
because of that she did the next good
thing which is keep a boundary a barrier
between her and this guy now if she'd
kept walking she had maybe some more
challenges with that or could have
hidden behind the Jeep that's a little
bit closer to us on the camera but she
kept herself on the other side of the
truck so that she had some boundaries
really really good here next when he
rolls off she doesn't just go huh that's
weird or whatever instead she's
continuing sideways and backing around
to the other side of the truck and I
think that is absolutely a positive
thing she doesn't just keep on going she
pays really close attention because
something is wrong and she doesn't
ignore her creep a lot a really really
good job there I think kids a lot of
times ignore the danger signs of what's
around them because they don't want to
be offensive teach your children to
listen to that creep alarm that queasy
uneasy feeling that something's not
right tell them when that their body
tells them something's not right
something's not right and they should
take steps to make themself safer and
talk about with people whom they love
now then she is I think on her smart
device texting somebody I'd recommend a
call whether that's to your parents her
to 911 but she does something awesome
here as well she doesn't just shrug it
off she runs and she gets out of the
danger zone as fast as she can teach
your children where their safe spaces
are not just to run away from danger but
to run to safety to know where their
safe places are to know how to get on
the phone with 911
- in order to get some professional help
on the way and make steps to protect
themselves this teenager did a fantastic
job she literally did everything right
parents please talk to your children
about paying attention in their world
about listening to their creep alarm
about not feeling obligated to help an
adult who doesn't need help how to
understand what victimization like this
might look like get out of the danger
zone maintainer boundaries and cover
your ass