Her Children Were Almost Kidnapped While She Lay In A Hospital Bed But These Two Words Saved Their Lives.

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Many of us parents talk to our children at one point or another about the dangers of some strangers. We do our best to prepare them as we cannot be with them all of the time.

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Jodie Norton is very happy that she prepared and educated her children for the potential danger of strangers in public places. Today, she is thankful for those lessons as something scary happened to her children while she was in a hospital emergency room.

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She woke up that morning in excruciating pain as a result of a ruptured ovarian cyst. She packed up her eight and ten year old sons and headed to the emergency room.

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She contacted a neighbor to come pick up her sons and take them to school and left them waiting in the waiting room as she was taken back to be taken care of.

"I had wrongly assumed my neighbor was coming from his house (not somewhere farther away), so my two boys sat out front of the ER for 40 minutes. Not the five minutes I had expected,"

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While waiting for their neighbor to arrive to pick them up, the boys were approached by an adult female and two "punk" males. They asked the boys if they would go into the bathroom and get the girl's boyfriend to come out and that she suspected he was scared to come out and see the doctor.

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While these strangers kept trying to implore the children to "help," they simply kept replying, "No Thank You."

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The neighbor eventually showed up and took the boys off to school. As they were leaving, the boys noticed a man walk out of the bathroom and join up with the strangers.

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Something was definitely hinky, and this was a close call!

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When the boys came home from school, Jodie found out how horribly late the neighbor was and listened to the boys' harrowing tale of the strangers.

"My anger and shock turned to immense gratitude, however, when I heard CJ spout off a family 'stay safe' rule we went over way too long ago that helped him know these creeps were up to no good. Most specifically, a tip for identifying a 'tricky person,'

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Instead of "stranger danger" the kids were taught to spot and avoid a "tricky person." Her oldest had said that he knew they were being tricky because they were asking a couple of kids for help instead of asking an adult.

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At the end of the day, we are all happy that Jodie taught her boys so well what to look out for when approached by strangers.

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What do you think about this lesson that she taught her kids?