Stranger Danger

The family was at Orange Grove Markets on a saturday morning. On the grassed area were lots of families with children picnicking and playing on the equipment, and some were haveing pony rides. Abi was fascinated with the ponies. She walked around by herself among the trees and people, to get a better look at the Shetland ponies as they stopped in mid-ride to eat grass. Her parents were quick to repeat the lesson on keeping the adults informed on her movements, and to make sure the adults can see her.

This lesson needs to be reinforced esp. at Broadway shopping centre food court when Abi wanders from the table to play on the internet / wi-fi terminal keyboards and parents are distracted by eating and feeding the other child. But Abi is quite amenable to the instruction and after being told she walked to several places just a bit away from the family's table, asking "can you still see me?" to check her boundaries I suppose.

One night soon after these episodes, Abi took her turn telling a story to her mother. Our family went for a walk up Lamb St and a strange woman came to the door while we were gone and wanted to come into the house. The family returned and found this woman, and told her to go away cos we don't like strangers in our house.