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...limited value if the stranger doesn't come off as a potential threat to a child. Young children often envision strangers as evil looking and might not identify a well-dressed, soft-spoken man looking for help finding his dog as someone to distrust. Security expert Gavin de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift (Little Brown), says parents must educate their kids to be assertive and, specifically, to yell and tell. "When someone tells your child 'Don't yell,' that's when they should yell 'This isn't my dad!' and scream for help, and when someone says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Safety Rules for Kids | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...Instead of teaching kids to find a police officer, security guard or salesperson if they're lost and scared, instruct them to find a mom, which generally means someone with a stroller or a child in tow. Police officers and clerks are scarce when you need them, and De Becker says women are more likely than men to stop to help lost children and stay with them until they are found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Safety Rules for Kids | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...Minutes" 8-8:30 "Bram and Alice" 8:30-9 "Becker" 9-11 "CBS Sunday Movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out Front of the Upfronts | 5/17/2002 | See Source »

...singles, Chu, ranked 73rd nationally in singles play, dropped the first set 6-3 to Becker, who is ranked at No. 9 in the country. Lingman, with a No. 124 ranking and playing at the No. 2 spot, also lost his first frame, 6-2, to No. 45 Papp...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baylor Halts Run By M. Tennis in Second Round of NCAAs | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...After Becker disposed of Chu, 6-3, 6-3, to give Baylor a 2-0 lead, the Crimson began storming back. Sophomore Cliff Nguyen, who had lost his first set to Hornung 6-3, forced the German into unforced error after unforced error...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baylor Halts Run By M. Tennis in Second Round of NCAAs | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

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