How To Handle Strangers on the Telephone: A Guide

Evan was learning about stranger safety in school yesterday.  He brought home an unfinished worksheet to work on at home.  He was supposed to finish sentences.  I found one he had already completed.  The sentence was "If you answer the phone when you are home without an adult, never say that you are alone.  Tell the callers that ________________________."

Evan had filled in the blank this way:  Tell the callers that "my mom and dad are in ther bedrom with the door loked."

Awesome.  I laughed so hard.  I didn't have him change it.  I think it will give his teacher a chuckle too.  In fact, come to think of it, the whole teachers' lounge may be laughing at Evan's parents this very moment!

And here is what happens when mom and dad go in their bedroom with the door "loked": 

Along comes Lydia in a baby carriage!

(Stuffing her in a doll carriage would be her big brothers' idea, of course.)