Personal Safety
Lesson 1 covers several personal safety concepts: being safe around people you know as well as around strangers, checking with a parent or caregiver before going anywhere or when asked to help with an adult problem; trusting the “uh-oh” or “yucky” feeling; maintaining personal space, and pairing up.
Scoop highlights the skills that kids need to be safe through a gentle story about a girl talking with her mom about being safe. One thing that I especially like about Scoop is that it covers stranger safety skills while acknowledging that “scoopers” aren’t only strangers – they can also be people that kids know and like. To further emphasize this unfortunate truth, I add to the information in the book by telling the kids that kids are more often hurt by people they know than people they don’t know. I point out that in the pictures of a man coming to the door and of a woman with a puppy, that they could be people the girl knows or they could be strangers. The book ends with the narrator realizing that she herself had been a “scooper” when she tried to turn the bunny she found in her yard into a pet. This provides a good opening for further discussion about how “scoopers” could be anyone.
Scoop highlights the skills that kids need to be safe through a gentle story about a girl talking with her mom about being safe. One thing that I especially like about Scoop is that it covers stranger safety skills while acknowledging that “scoopers” aren’t only strangers – they can also be people that kids know and like. To further emphasize this unfortunate truth, I add to the information in the book by telling the kids that kids are more often hurt by people they know than people they don’t know. I point out that in the pictures of a man coming to the door and of a woman with a puppy, that they could be people the girl knows or they could be strangers. The book ends with the narrator realizing that she herself had been a “scooper” when she tried to turn the bunny she found in her yard into a pet. This provides a good opening for further discussion about how “scoopers” could be anyone.