Teaching children how to keep safe is becoming increasingly challenging for households across Australia.

However, one woman has suggested we look away from the term ‘stranger danger’ and trade it in for a more realistic one.

“I think we need to start moving away from ‘stranger danger’ and more towards what a ‘tricky person’ looks like,” she said, in a clip posted to TikTok.

With an account dedicated to teaching self-defense tips, she thinks this type of thinking is fundamental for parents, including what a ‘safe adult’ would and wouldn’t do. 5

“Stranger danger truly did so much damage”

“A safe adult is never going to ask a child for help. A safe adult is never going to ask a child to keep a secret from their parents… Those are tricky people,” she points out.

She argues that

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