In a big store
You looked at something for a moment and now you cannot see your grown-up anywhere.
What do you do first?
Life Skills · Discover · Pre-K to Grade 2
Chapter 6: Everyday Independence
Stay where you are. Shout. Ask somebody who works there.
Stay where you are. Shout. Ask somebody who works there.
2 situations to decide. There is often more than one good answer: pick one and see what happens.
In a big store
What do you do first?
Nobody has come
What do you do?
Stop where you are. If you both walk about looking, you keep missing each other.
Shout their actual name, not "Mom". Lots of people are Mom. Only one is their name.
Somebody working there — a checkout, a uniform, a desk. Or a grown-up with children. Not somebody who comes up to you.
You never leave with somebody to go and look. You stay where you are.
These ones do have right answers.
Tap them in order.
You have lost your grown-up in a big store.
Question 1 of 2
Somebody you do not know says "come with me, I will help you find your mom". What do you do?
Question 2 of 2
Why shout their name instead of "Mom"?
Something to do away from the screen. Nobody is checking.
Why: A number you know is help you can get anywhere, from anybody.
For a grown-up: Make it a song or a rhyme. And agree a meeting point every time you arrive somewhere big — it takes ten seconds and it works.
Deciding what somebody looks like is beyond young children, which is why this lesson specifies role — staff, a uniform, a checkout — rather than trustworthiness.
A grown-up with children is the standard second choice and it is deliberate: they are statistically safer and much more likely to help properly.
Agree a meeting point when you arrive somewhere large, and rehearse the plan calmly. A child who has practiced it does it; a child who has been warned freezes.
Teaching your phone number as a song or rhyme works well, and it is the single most useful thing they can carry.