Need your Help with CM pictures for my DD

[bedillamouse]

Hi everyone...I am working with my DD who is 3 about what to do if she gets seperated from us (God forbid...I'm sure I would freak ). Anyway I was explaining to her to look for cast members and that they have special name tags etc...she wanted to see pictures. Do you guys have pics of CM's??? With your family or without...just so that I can practice with her before we go. I think this would help her understand better.
TIA

 

[zoemurr]

Have you read the book, "Protecting the Gift"? It is an amazing book that gives you real world examples of what to tell children to do. Since she is at knee level, and a CM nametag to her might look like a Disney pin someone else is wearing it's iffy, and may be confusing to her.

Anyway.. he recommends teaching your kids to find "another Mommy". Statistically a mother will always help a small child and the liklihood that she would harm/take your child is about zero. We always taught our kids to look for a woman with a stroller if they need help. They would then direct your DD to a CM, and probably even wait with them until you arrived.

Read the book.. it's amazing and will change the way you teach your kids about "strangers".

HTH

 

[MomsOf2boys]

Have you read the book, "Protecting the Gift"? It is an amazing book that gives you real world examples of what to tell children to do. Since she is at knee level, and a CM nametag to her might look like a Disney pin someone else is wearing it's iffy, and may be confusing to her.

Anyway.. he recommends teaching your kids to find "another Mommy". Statistically a mother will always help a small child and the liklihood that she would harm/take your child is about zero. We always taught our kids to look for a woman with a stroller if they need help. They would then direct your DD to a CM, and probably even wait with them until you arrived.

Read the book.. it's amazing and will change the way you teach your kids about "strangers".

HTH

That is a SUPER idea!

 

[KELSTER]

I always tell my dd to call out my name (Kelley) if we get separated. There's thousands of kids calling out mommy, but if I hear my real name I can get to her quicker.

When dd was as young as yours she wasn't getting the call my name concept so I wrote "if lost, call my mom @ 123-123-1234" on her arm. I'd also write that on some paper, laminate it, hole punch it and then got a couple of those hiking hooks (sporting goods store) to attach it to a belt loop or jacket pocket in case of cold weather.

Now it doesn't matter.

 

[Rylee]

Hi everyone...I am working with my DD who is 3 about what to do if she gets seperated from us (God forbid...I'm sure I would freak ). Anyway I was explaining to her to look for cast members and that they have special name tags etc...she wanted to see pictures. Do you guys have pics of CM's??? With your family or without...just so that I can practice with her before we go. I think this would help her understand better.
TIA

We use luggage tags on our children. We include our names and cell numbers. We clip it on their belt loop or tuck it into a pocket.

You can buy a "dog tag", too, but I don't like anything around their neck which might be a choke hazzard or become entangled on a ride. (You can clip them onto a shoe or zipper, etc.)

Teacher her to STOP, the minute she is aware she is seperated, (your chances of finding her decrease if you are both moving about.) Teacher her to call out your FIRST name, not "Mom," too many Mom's at Disney.

I tell my children to wait a couple of minutes because we will back-track to find them, but after a couple of minutes, I tell them to find a Mom with kids, or to go into a building and find the "nice lady that we pay", at the cash register.

I always point out to my children what the employees wear, too, but at Disney, their outfits vary depending on where they work.

 

[mom2aredhead]

I also told my son to look for "a mommy with a baby or a stroller".
Identifying cast members when you're that little can be confusing. We put a tag on him (made from the Home Depot paint chips ) with our cell phone numbers and he knows that if he can't find his own mommy, look for another mommy, show her his Mickey tag and they will help him.

 

[staci]

I have never heard of that book, but I have always told my son if he needs help to 'find another mommy'. It is easy for him to recognize a mom, and I know another woman with small children could help escort my son to a CM (or a Target worker, or wherever we are).

I also used the name tags last time we went to WDW - we had one that velcroed onto his shoe. Thanks for reminding me about those! I need to find some for this time!

 

[Ms.Grumpy]

Years ago I heard Rosie O'Donell say that she taught her children to look for a mommy if they got lost, and it stuck in my head. I taught my DS as well as my students the same thing.

 

[MiniGirl]

We also have a code word set up. I told them I would never ask anyone to go get them without first telling them our code word. If someone says to them, "Your mommy is right over there and asked me to bring you to her." Ask them for the code word. If they do not know it, do not go with them.

My oldest will not go with anyone -- not even my bff (who happens to be her bff's mom) -- if she doesn't know our current code word. My youngest will still go with anyone, so we are working on that.

 

[bumbershoot]

Have you read the book, "Protecting the Gift"? It is an amazing book that gives you real world examples of what to tell children to do. Since she is at knee level, and a CM nametag to her might look like a Disney pin someone else is wearing it's iffy, and may be confusing to her.

Anyway.. he recommends teaching your kids to find "another Mommy". Statistically a mother will always help a small child and the liklihood that she would harm/take your child is about zero. We always taught our kids to look for a woman with a stroller if they need help. They would then direct your DD to a CM, and probably even wait with them until you arrived.

Read the book.. it's amazing and will change the way you teach your kids about "strangers".

HTH

Loved that book.

In addition to a mommy with kids being very unlikely to hurt/take a kid, a mommy with kids that the child chose to go to is even less likely. A person who goes to a lost child is choosing the child, but a child going to someone....the chances that that child will choose a bad person is just infinitessimally small.


Once they get the CM thing, though, I've read here recently to tell the child to go to a CM at a cash register. That decreases the chance that the kid will choose a person wearing one of those customizable nametags that guests can buy.



MiniGirl, we were latchkey kids before that term was in use, and my mom always had some sort of code too, just in case she couldn't pick us up and had to send someone.

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh, and when we go to WDW, we're planning on order this style of bracelet, with our cellphone number on it. MiniGirl