Stranger Danger

We have been teaching our daughter the past year about Stranger Danger. Something i believe all children should be taught about. As soon as we started we came across so many different ways of talking to our children about it. some of which we tried and failed at. We have told her.. Do not talk to strangers. Do not take anything off strangers.. Do not let strangers in the house, or better yet do not open the door to them. As we told people that we were teaching her these things we had alot of people tell us that she was to young to learn (4 years), and as time went on i also started to believe that she may have been to young. But we kept on, telling her that you never play in the front yard alone, if some one pops there head over the fence to talk to her, to just walk straight inside and let mum or dad know, if someone comes to the front door to let us know.. she made us very proud the other week and has continued to do so since. My partner had both our girls out shopping for the day. He parked the car on the side of the road walked the 10 steps to the atm leaving both girls happily playing in the backseat. He noticed a man standing outside a takeaway, put his atm card into the machine turned to check on the girls, to find the man looking in the drivers window talking to our daughter, who screamed at the top of her lungs "leave me alone" which made every one look at him, my partner ran to the car screaming "what are you doing"  this man then ran away as fast as he could. If we hadnt told our daughter all those times what to do something horrible just may have happened. I was never told about stranger danger as a child and i would have opened the door to anyone. These days it needs to be done. I felt like a broken down record saying it over and over again. I have also found that the more i tell this story to people the more people i find that havent taught there children, they have told them but not enough for it to stick. we repeat it everyday. If i go shopping, i will tell my daughter before we get in there "remember not to talk to strangers". There is never a day when i havent said something to her about stranger danger . Even to the point now where she says to me "yes mum i know". My daughter has now started to tell me about stranger danger, if i talk to someone we dont know she will repeat my words right in front of them.