One smart little boy!

that was neat. and never thought of it think we need to tell CHey something like that. When her dad and Uncle have a arguement I tak eher to my room and shut the door so she cant hear all the bad words being flung around.

We have a safe word and my kids know that if somebody ever asks them to go with a stranger then they are to ask that person if they know the safe word. If they don't, and my kids know they wont, which helps them keep control of the situation, the kids are to go in the opposite direction and when they feel safe to run home.

My parents did this with me, and I will do this with my kids. I haven't seen this episode yet, it sounds good.

We don't have a secret phrase. We do have a list of SAFE adults for my kids to go with. If anyone else tries to come close or leave with my daughter she knows what to do. It's the same principle I guess.

When my sons were young we did have a phrase, just in case someone tried to pick them up at school or something. When they were born, in the late 80's, people were kidnapping newborns from hospitals and I never stopped fearing that someone would take them. In fact, neither of my babies were out of my sight when I was in the hospital and I slept with them in my arms till I got to go home. Heck, I wouldn't even let them use a bathroom in a restaurant or other public space without their dad going in with them--if he wasn't there (and he usually wasn't) I would take them into the Lady's Room. When they were old enough to defend themselves against child molesters I still stood outside the door and told every man going in that if he touched them I would kill him. Yep, I was nuts. But my sons are alive and healthy, both mentally and emotionally! I've been tempted to watch Criminal Minds but I'm already watching 5 series and I don't want to spend all my evenings in front of the television! With the series and all the old movies I love to watch, I spend too much time staring at the idiot box as it is.

hi suspenseful yes indeed when my son was little his dad and I decided to give him a code word so if there was ever any reason for one of us to send a friend to pick him up at school or a well known neighbor this person had to say this word to my son, regnad, which is danger spelled backwards. If the person did not give my son that password so to speak, he was to run back into the school and tell his teacher to call the police as a stranger tried to pick him up. this did work and we only used it like once but my son was very bright even as a little kid and one time a new teacher who was a speech specialist for little kids tried to take my son to a nearby cafe to have a speech session with him, but he did not have the code word so my son runs back tohis teacher and she then realizes the speech teacher had not been clued in so she called us and we came over and explained the whole thing to the new teacher so he would not be embarrassed or myson scared again. worked beautifully too.

We never thought about having a secret word or code but I imagine that depends on what your job is, what kind of neighborhood you live in and many other things. The secret code did save Hotchner´s little boy´s life. Those episodes were very well done, along with the ones afterwards (in which Hotchner decides that he will continue pursuing the bad guys).