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Grades K–3 · Safe Start · Badge 3

Grown-ups ask grown-ups

You can spot a grown-up asking a kid for help and go to your own grown-up instead.

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1Watch

The lost dog

Film

The lost dog

A kid on the pavement outside her house, and a grown-up she does not know holding an empty lead, asking her to help look.

18 seconds

It stops there. Something about this is odd. Can you find it?

2The idea

Who do grown-ups ask?

A grown-up who needs help asks another grown-up. Always. Lost? Ask a grown-up. Heavy box? Ask a grown-up.

A grown-up asking a kid for help is doing something odd. Whoever they are. Even if they are nice. Even if you know them.

3The idea

The odd bit is who they asked

Directions. A lost dog. Carrying something to a car. Finding a dropped phone. The question is not the odd bit.

The odd bit is who they asked. There are grown-ups all around. They picked a kid. So you go and get your own grown-up.

4The idea

Ava and the empty lead

Ava is outside her house. A man with an empty lead says have you seen my dog, can you help me look. Ava’s dial goes Twitchy.

Ava says I’ll go and get my mum. She walks inside. If he really needs help, Mum can help him. That is a grown-up asking a grown-up.

5Say it

The sentence that ends the odd bit

Say this in your normal voice

“I'll go and get my mum.”

It is polite. It is true. And it ends the odd bit.

6Decide

Which one is a grown-up asking a grown-up?

Right. Same question. He asked the grown-up. That is what grown-ups do.

Same question, different person asked. A grown-up who is lost asks a grown-up. When they ask a kid instead, that is the odd bit.

Pick one to carry on.

7Your turn

Four people, four questions

Interactive

Four approaches

Four short scenes. Somebody asks for directions, a lost dog, help carrying a box, help finding a phone. After each: is this a grown-up asking a grown-up, or not? Tap, and the answer shows.

It does not matter how nice they are. It matters who they asked.

8Again

A neighbour you know says: help me carry this into my house.

Right. She is probably fine. Your grown-up decides that, not you on the driveway. Ask first.

Knowing her does not change the rule. And loud is for when leaving is not working. Here you just go and ask your own grown-up. One minute.

Pick one to carry on.

9Look

Safe places on your street

Still image

Your street

A street drawn from above. A shop, a neighbour's house with the lights on, and a house with a family in the garden, each circled.

These are where you go if you need a grown-up. A shop with staff. A neighbour you know.

10Do it

Before you leave this page

Walk to the end of your street and back with a parent. Point at the safe places out loud. A shop, a neighbour you know, a house with lights on.

Tick it when you have done it.

Lesson done.

A grown-up who needs help asks a grown-up. Always.

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