About 8:00 am we got a call from the school . Telling us that he had told the teacher about a man stopping in a truck at the bus stop and asking him weird questions . The principal told my husband what the truck looked like to see if it was a neighbor . We told her no and she let us know this ,man ask him his name ,age .school he went to ,if he had siblings ,and what house was his . The worst part is my son told him everything he wanted to know . Even though my son knew better after words at the time he let it all out . Just because this man said he was a little girls grandpa who lives by us . Yet even so my son did not know this man.

My husband jumped in our van to go look for the truck I began to call neighbors to see if they knew him . Once we realized no one we spoke to knew this man I called back the school gave the name of the older girl my son was at the bus stop with to see what she could tell us . This girl is in high school but was so afraid she never even thought to get his plate number . That showed me that in this situation any one is able to forget all they have been taught . I spent several hours that after noon with the local sheriffs answering a ton of questions that should have been fairly simple but my mined was in such a state I had a hard time thinking of answers . That made me ask myself what I would have been able to tell them if this man would have taken my son .

We got lucky this day . It ended up that this was a man who has family in our neighborhood . This made me ask myself have I done all I can to keep him safe ? Sadly enough my answer was no . I decided that instead of a body guard my son need knowledge as do all kids to keep safe .

I have explained to him a stranger is anyone who we do not see or have to our house on a regular basis . Just because we see and talk to a person at the store that dose not mean we know them or that they are a safe person . I have also told him we never get with in 15 feet of a car/truck with a person in it we do not know if they stop us . We now send him to a different stop in the morning with more kids at it . We also have a alternate route to our house from the bud stop and he knows to yell and attract as much attention as he can . We have what we call a safe house this is the closest neighbor to the bus stop if he can not get to our house . We still have no clue as to why this man stopped him but we pay close attention to every one when we are out . You may be acquainted with a person but please remember you never really know some one . I beg all parents out there to please go over the danger of strangers and people who they just see out from time to time. Let your kids know it is okay to walk away even if it is some one they have seen before and to never give any person information. I have told my son if any one starts to ask you questions of that type turn and walk away or scream out stranger . I would rather deal with a few mad neighbors than id my kids body .

Yes I hope this man is just a nice guy who had no bad intentions but this was poor judgement on his part . My son had a very hard time dealing with this for a few days . He felt bad that this man could have gotten in trouble and that he may have upset his family . Yes he was afraid to go to the bus stop this happened at . So even in a case where the worst doesn’t happen it can still be hard to deal with .

I hope this has made every parent think . I know it has made me realize no community is 100% safe and you never know a persons true intentions even if you went to school with their kids and know people that know them .