* Rehearse with children their full name, address, and phone number (including area code) and how to make emergency phone calls from home and public phones. * Walk the neighborhood with your children. Show them safe places they can go to in an emergency, like a neighbor's house, a Block Parent House or an open store. * Tell children never to accept gifts or rides from someone they don't know well. * Check your neighborhood for areas that threaten children's safety, like brush in wooded areas, overgrown shrubbery, abandoned buildings, bad lighting, vacant lots, littered with debris, no sidewalks or bike paths next to busy streets. * Teach children to go to a store clerk or security guard and ask for help if you become separated in a store or shopping mall. Tell them never to go into the parking lot alone. * Accompany your children to public restrooms. * Teach children that no one, not even someone they know, has the right to touch them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. Tell them they have the right to say "no" to an adult in this situation.