Stranger Safety with Safe Side Super-Chick
Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by Mom Mag in Child Safety
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Product Description
| Kid safety is an important, yet often difficult topic of discussion between parents and children. The Safe Side's "Safe Side Super-Chick" is a decidedly zany host who successfully combines slapstick humor with serious, practical safety tips for kids. "Safe Side Super-Chick" breaks the population down into three quickly discernable categories: "Safe Side Adults" that kids know well and can always trust to keep them safe, "Don't Knows" like the mail carrier or the lady at the park and "Sorta Knows" like a coach or a schoolmate's parent. As "Safe Side Super-Chick" interacts with "Don't Knows" and "Sorta Knows", she offers seven specific safety tips to keep kids safe and, with the help of real kids, details simple, concrete actions and phrases that empower kids in a variety of potentially dangerous situations. Best of all, the presentation is never scary, but always extremely funny--that means that kids ages 2 to 10 will actually enjoy learning about safety. Kudos to Julie Clark (creator of Baby Einstein) and John Walsh (host of America's Most Wanted) for creating a safety video that's highly entertaining, informative, and practical. --Tami Horiuchi |
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Customer Reviews
 Content EXCELLENT... Sound has problems |
| Review Date: September 14, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Kim, NJ, USA |
| First the bad news.... this DVD has some sound issues. Sometimes Super Safe Chick is speaking but the instrumental music is drowning her out. We found ourselves constantly raising and lowering the volume since things are happening so fast in the movie. It may just be a defect in our particular DVD.... we will check into it.
Now the good news! This is an EXCELLENT movie to teach kids about protecting themselves from strangers. Super Safe Chick (SSC)is VERY VERY funny! My dd actually wants to dress up as her for Halloween. So many clever things in this dvd..like when SSC is in certain situations she wears clothing that is either Green (in safe situations), Amber (in cautious ones) and Red (in danger type situations). She teaches the kids about the 3 types of people in their lives ("Safe Side Adults" - mom, dad, and others whom mom and dad have given their trust, "Kinda Knows" - family friends, neighbors, coaches, teachers, and "Don't Knows" - anyone not in the other 2 categories) The movie shows certain situations - ie standing in line at the ice cream truck - SSC is in her red outfit, hanging at home she is in her green outfit until the doorbell rings... her outfit turns red and she is upset because she knows she shouldn't answer the door without her Safe Side Adult present. The doorbell keeps ringing and getting louder and she gets louder herself saying "Some people hate hearing the doorbell ring and they want to answer it - but I won't! My Safe Side Adult is not here"...then her mom appears and they open the door together and she is back in her green outfit. VERY CLEVER!!! She practices with the kids yelling "This is not my Mom, This is not my Dad" - so of course my kids were shouting it for about 30 minutes at the top of their lungs. But it opened up a wonderful discussion. We made our list of Safe Side Adults and people who fell into the other category. The movie is VERY quick - things happen quickly so while my 3 yr old LOVED watching it....she got minimal out of it except what to yell and not to open the door or follow people looking for animals. But my 9 year old asked us questions for about an hour afterwards. I would think children ages 5-12 would get the most out of it. But adults will find it perfect for opening conversations - and very funny even though a very serious topic. |
| The best stranger info! |
| Review Date: September 3, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Mom moves fast, USA |
| Both of my children are very friendly and fearless with all people and it scares me! I have looked for a good stranger book, video or computer software for several years. This is the best! All adults go into 3 categories - Safe Side Adults, Kinda Knows and Don't Knows. I have always been looking for a way to explain that you can't trust people you do know like the coach, neighbors, mom and dad's boss, etc. This DVD explains the Kinda Knows very well with great role playing! Supersafe Chick does a great job being silly, but explains the information very clearly. The end of the movie tells the kids to write down a list of Super Safe Adults with mom and dad. This is an assignment we should have done a long time ago! |
| Very, Very Good |
| Review Date: November 17, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Occasional Reviewer, United States |
| We have spent a decent amount of time covering "stranger" safety in our home, and was worried that most of this would be review. Well, in reality, it was, but that ended up being almost better that way. My child got a chance to hear it all again from somebody else and therefore validating what I had been saying. We had already practiced yelling "this isn't my mom/dad" but watching Safe Side Super Chick tell us to do the same thing was wonderful reinforcement. It's great to discuss these things, and great to act them out, but watching it being done added another element.
The Safe Side Super Chick is funny and silly, but never overboard so that it detracted from the seriousness of the subject. We laughed a little while watching this, which served to diffuse the scariness. I think that the way people are categorized as "safe side adults", "don't knows", or "kinda knows" is an excellent guideline for children to use to make good decisions. The "kinda knows" seems to be the hardest category of people to explain to children, and often it made me feel like the paranoid mom to be saying "Yes, our neighbor is nice to say Hi to, but do we REALLY know them?" This dvd did an excellent job of going over those "kinda knows", such as your coach, your dad's friend, your neighbor, the person you regularly see at the store, and it never once sounded paranoid! The only drawback to this series is that I wish it (or a subsequent title) would have addressed the subject of trusting your instincts and getting away from situations that "feel" wrong. Also, a little more in the way of sample situations would have helped. But overall, this is an excellent program. |
| MUST HAVE for the family movie library!!! |
| Review Date: April 18, 2006 |
| Reviewer: J. Dustin, United States |
| I was skeptical when I heard about this, and saw commercials for it. But, I found that I just wasn't getting through to my 2 + 4 year olds, so I decided this movie was worth a try.
I am SO GLAD I bought this movie. It is NOT scary, which was important to me. It gets the message across without scaring the kids. My 4 year old has really started to grasp the topic, and knows who his "Safe-side adults" are, and even tells me "She is really nice, but she's still just a "Kinda-know", huh mom?!" My 2 year old is too young to grasp the concept, but still really enjoys watching it, and she will start to understand over time. We havn't really noticed the sound changes, we just love the movie, and since I wasn't expecting much from the quality, I was pleasently supprised at how well put-together I though this movie is. When used with parent-child descussions & teaching, this movie is one of the best resources I've found that addresses the safety and street-smarts of out children. It should be a part of EVERY family video library. I HIGHLY RECCOMEND THIS MOVIE!!! |
| EXCELLENT! Fabulous video! |
| Review Date: April 22, 2006 |
| Reviewer: J. McCurry, Knoxville, TN United States |
| This is a fantastic video to teach children about strangers and what to do in various situations. My son is 6 years old and we started talking more seriously about what to do about strangers. He LOVES this video. He thinks it is funny, but understands what it is trying to teach him. During and after watching it (many, many times!), he always wants to talk about various situations (what if...) and what he should do. I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone with a child, grandchild, etc 4years or older. The video was put together very well - addressing serious issues in a fun way for children to understand. |