Street Smart Kids: Calm Safety Lessons: What to Say and What to Do

What do you say when a grown-up you do not know asks you to come along? What do you do if you get lost in a store, or a message online feels wrong?

Street Smart Kids gives children a calm way to practice safety before they ever need it. It holds 104 short lessons in 8 chapters, and every lesson has its own color picture.

What is inside

• 104 lessons in 8 chapters: safe adults and new people, out and about, roads, rides and wheels, safe at home, online and on screen, body safety and privacy, friends, feelings and gut feelings, and emergencies and 911.
• A color picture on every lesson, plus a large picture opening each chapter.
• Most lessons give the words to say, so a child can say them out loud and practice with a grown-up.
• Eight kinds of lessons: What Would You Do?, Pick One, Myth or Fact?, Story, Say It, Try It, Follow the Steps and Rule.
• For grown-ups: a parent page at the front and a practice-at-home idea on every chapter opening.
• To finish: a family safety plan to fill in together, a 10-question true-or-false quiz with answers, and a certificate.

The tone stays calm and friendly. Nothing in this book is built on fear, and the lessons never blame a child.

Written for ages 7 to 11 and meant to be read together with a grown-up. The lessons follow widely shared safety guidance in the United States (911 for emergencies, U.S. poison control), and local rules differ, so check yours.

6 x 9 inches, 120 pages, full color interior. General safety information only, not legal, medical or professional advice. Every child and family is different, so adapt the lessons to yours.