Say It, Do Stay Safe: A parent’s guide to child safety: two hundred everyday situations, the exact words say, and five-minute drills practice together. Ages 612.

Most children are told to be careful. Almost none are told what to say.Your child knows the rule about strangers. They have no rule for the neighbor they see every day, the coach who keeps them back after everyone leaves, the friend's parent who offers a ride nobody arranged - and that is where nearly all of it actually happens.Say It, Do It, Stay Safe is two hundred of those situations, written the way they arrive: ordinary, and usually from someone your child already knows.Every situation gives you four things: - What it looks like - the situation as it actually arrives, so you recognize it instead of picturing something dramatic.- What your child does - three moves, in the order they happen. Not a principle. Three things a body can do.- The words - the one line your child says out loud, written to be said by a child to an adult who is not expecting it.- The drill - thirty seconds to ten minutes. 193 of the 200 are done with you, because a rule your child has heard is not a rule your child has.Inside: - 20 chapters: the street, cars and rides, doors and home alone, getting lost, screens and games, photos, friends and pressure, bullying, secrets and threats, body boundaries, money, emergencies, fire and water, animals, sleepovers, sport and clubs, school, what to do when something has already happened - and the ten drills that make most of the other 190 unnecessary.- 45 full-color illustrations.- An index of all two hundred situations, for the evening you need one fast.- Grounded in published guidance from NCMEC/KidSmartz, the NSPCC, Kidpower, Safe Kids Worldwide, KidsHealth and Ready.gov.Where the published advice disagrees with the popular version - family code words are the clearest example - this book follows the published advice, and says so in the text.Ten situations is roughly a week. Twenty chapters is roughly half a year of two-minute conversations, and there is no prize for finishing quickly.Nothing in it needs to be frightening. Children practice best when the practice is boring.