8 May 2025

How to talk to children about keeping safe

From Nine To Noon, 11:20 am on 8 May 2025
A police patrol car, with emergency lights on.

A police patrol car, with emergency lights on Photo: RNZ

An attempted abduction of a child outside an Auckland primary school earlier this week has many parents wondering about the best way to talk to children about keeping safe. 

And Kaurilands School in Titirangi says one of its students was approached by a woman in a car on their way to school yesterday morning, asking if he wanted a ride.

How much information should parents give children about potential dangers to them? And how? 

Clinical Psychologist and mother of three Jacqui Maguire has some tips and tricks.