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Dear Parents & Educators:

Did you know, 95% of All Currently Taught Student Safety Tips Are Outdated? 

Hi, my name is Tony Newsom and I am a full time police officer.  I am also the author of "Student Safety Tips" for: 1st & 2nd graders,  3rd - 5th graders,  middle school students,  high school students,  college students & the parent's guide for raising safer students.

"These books are important for proactively keeping children safe and aware of their surroundings." ---Kirk Nascimento, Los Angeles Public School, Assistant Principal

Have you ever given your children any of the following safety tips?

"Don't talk to strangers"

"Use the buddy system when walk to & from school"

"You can go to your friend's house, as long as one of their parents are going to be there"

"Be respectful and do what adults tell you to"

"You can go online, as long as you are careful"

If so, then you will definitely want to keep reading this letter.  Your child safety may depend on it.

Although the safety tips that are listed above did a pretty good job in keeping kids safe in the 60's and 70's, unfortunately we now live in a day and age where various predators are utilize these same tips to their advantage. 

Around thirty to forty years ago, it was okay to tell a kid not to talk to strangers.  At that time, the average child abductor preyed upon conversations as a mean to gain leverage over a child. 

The Modern Day predator is much different.  His primary goal is never to abduct a child.  On the contrary, his number one goal is to remain stealth while abducting a child.  From his prospective, the less talking a child does, the better.

Why is that important for you to know?

In our society, the average child is still being taught  40 - 50 year old safety tips. 

Unfortunately, each year, tens of thousands of students of all ages suffer harm at the hands of many career criminals simply because they are unaware and unprepared.

According to the United States Department of Justice, in one recent year there were  more than 659,000 violent crimes involving student victims while at school and about 720,000 violent crimes committed against students away from school property.  That is an alarming total of 1,379,000 victims of crimes against students in just one year. 

When you break that total down to days, you are looking at about 3,800 students who become victims of violent crimes in our society every day. 

The United States Department of Justice also concludes, that many crimes are 100% preventable through education and awareness.

Unfortunately, simply telling a child not to talk to strangers generally accomplishes just that.  It usually shuts them down to the point where they don’t say anything, even at the risk of being abducted.

With 95% of all currently taught student safety tips being out-dated, it makes you wonder which ones need to be updated as well as which ones are still affective. 

For your reference, I will now go over the top 10 most commonly taught student safety tips.  As I do, I will clearly illustrate why the information in the first 9 is dangerously outdated.  I will also elaborate as to why the information in #10th is half way affective. 

THE 95% OUTDATED STUDENT SAFETY TIPS

1. Telling a child not to talk to strangers, without teaching him/her current, proven safety strategies that can keep them from being abducted.

2. Telling a kid that the buddy system works, without realizing that a variety of Modern Day pedophiles seek to abduct two or more kids at one time.

3. Telling a kid or teenager that it is okay to go somewhere as long as an adult chaperone will be present, without knowing:

a) who the adult is

b) what other adults, children or even teenagers will be present

c) if the adult is a licensed driver as well as knowing how trustworthy that person really is

d) if that person is a convicted sex offender: Free Search 

4. Telling a kid or teenager that it is okay to go somewhere as long as one of their friend's parents are going to be present. (Same criteria's of #3)

5. Teaching a kids to respect adults, without giving them particular safety parameters to avoid at all cost.

6. Telling a kid to be careful while surfing the Internet without teaching them a set of proven Internet Predator Prevention Tips.

7. Teaching teenagers to avoid drugs without teaching them how to avoid becoming unknowingly drugged with cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy or the powerful GHB (date rape drug).

8. Failing to teach and review a set of proven safety strategies with a child because he/she may live in a predominately safe community.  This method leaves a lot of children as well as teenagers unprepared, when they come into contact with someone who plans to do them harm.

9. Teaching female teenagers to avoid or leave a relationships that involves violence, without helping them learn proven, safety strategies that they can use to successfully avoid or even exit those types of relationships.

10. Helping students learn current, proven and age appropriate safety strategies from police officers, without helping them to review those safety strategies regularly.

As I mentioned above, I consider these to be the most regularly taught student safety tips. The last safety tip that I mentioned (#10), to me is the only one that still holds some validity.  Here is why:

Many people still contact professional police officers in order to obtain the best safety guidance possible.  However, as a society, where we are failing is by providing very little if any follow-up to assure that each student:

a) Understood what they learned

b) Develop a definitive, outlined plan to put into practiced what they learned

c) Regally reviews the material that they learned, so that it can be recalled it instantly if they come into contact with an immediate threat

Even as police officers, we spend months in the police academy just to learn a very core set of safety principles. 

Sometimes we spend hundreds of hours reviewing some of the material that we once learn.  We take test to make sure that we retain the information that we have learned.  In addition, throughout the duration of our careers, we spend many years reviewing what we have learned as well as learning new and improved safety tips to replace the ones that become obsolete. 

When it comes to keeping our students safety, beginning in 2008, we must do whatever it takes to provide them with the very best information, training and follow up strategies to assure that they prepared for whatever is out there. 

That is why I wrote Student Safety Tips for:1st & 2nd graders,  3rd - 5th graders,  middle school students,  high school students,  college students & the parent's guide for raising safer students.

Each book, including the parent's guide, comes complete with detailed book review outline to help each student:

a) Document the Safety Tips of The Day

b) Develop a definitive action plan so that they can put into practice what they have learned

c) Share with their parents what they learned as well as seeking guidance from their parents to help them to personalize their safety plan. 

d) The book review can also be used by educators to develop safety lesson plans as well as assigning their students extra credit safety assignments that can be done at home.

Listen to what the Mayor of Los Angeles County has to say about the Student Safety Tips series:

“These books offer highly effective safety strategies. Tony Newsom has a true passion and concern for the safety of the people in our communities as well as our students and schools." --Los Angeles County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich

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6 Important Things Every Parent Should Know

Every year, hundreds of thousands of students become entangled in all sorts of crimes and mischievous acts strictly due to their transition into (middle school, high school and college).   This usually occurs because of 6 known facts:

1) They find themselves in these new environments without having a current, age appropriate safety tips to guide them. 

2) When a student transitions from one school to another, many times they instantly go from being the most influential to the most influenced.  Because of this, many students are secretly lured into all types of dangers  

3) Many children as well as young adults do not know that they are even victims of crimes.  This is particularly true when it comes to acquaintance rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence.

4) Peer pressure coupled by easier ways to become addicted to drugs.  Here's a perfect example:

Recent studies show that the THC (the active potency level) in marijuana alone has shot up from 1%-5% in the 1960's - 15%-30% in 2007.  

Why is that so important for you to know?

In the past, it was much easier for an adolescent, who did not want anything to do with drugs, to attend a party where marijuana was being smoked.  The smell was much worse, the levels of THC were less and the desire to smoke it was not present. 

Here's were it gets tricky.  How does one become addicted to marijuana? No, it is not by smoking it.  On the contrary, It is  simply by inhaling it (intentionally or unintentionally). 

Think of it like this, THC (Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol) accounts for most of marijuana's psychoactive, or mind-altering, effects (the heighten experience). 

Because of that, many adolescence who intentionally or unintentionally inhale marijuana, now experience a 3 - 30 x's greater ability to become addicted to marijuana then those adolescence in the 60's and 70's.

5) Every year, thousands of young men exchange their freedom, paid scholarships and entire futures for a 3-10 years prison term do to their lack of knowledge concerning the  penalties that accompany domestic related crimes.  Crime prevention and deterrence is a much better strategy to reduce these types of crime.  Less people will be harmed in the process.

6) The final reason why hundreds of thousands of students become entangled in all sorts of crimes and mischievous acts is because we can never prepare our young ones to stay safe from situations that we do not believe exist.  If you are not a parent, I challenge you to read my book, Top 10 Crimes - don't be the next victim.  If you are a parent, I plead with you to get your child the best age appropriate student safety tips book and I recommend that you read The Parent's Guide for Raising Safe K-12 Students.

Listen to what a few teachers from various areas throughout America has to say about the Student Safety Tips Series:

“ I learned from reading these books that there is a time and a place for kindness. Safety comes first. I can’t wait to share this information with every child and adult that I know.” —Kathy Ridenour, fifth grade teacher, Hawthorne, CA

“ Awesome! I sincerely hope that many individuals will take these New Safety Tips to heart and in so doing, help us all work toward a safer society.”---June Scarbough, Teacher, Atlanta Public Schools, GA

The books are easy to read, easy to understand, and the safety tips are easy to incorporate into one’s daily routine.

“ Now these perpetrators have greater challenges to overcome. ” —Lisa Sanchez, elementary and high school educator, Tampa, FL

Prepare your students to be safe.  Get them Student Safety Tips!

Student Safety Tips: 40 That Every 1st - 2nd Grader Must Know!:  

Based on true stories and written by a real police officers, this  book has helped many 1st & 2nd graders:

* Learn what TO DO, if they come into contact with potential child abductors                                                                                                           * Learn how to avoid Internet Predators
* Learn how to choose friends - more effectively
* Learn how and when to call 911
* Learn about bike & skateboard safety tips

and more...

$6.99

This book also comes with a detailed book review outline.

Student Safety Tips: 45 That Every 3rd-5th Graders Must Know!

Based on true stories and written by a real Police Officers, this book has helped many 3rd - 5th graders:

* Learn what TO DO, if they come into contact with potential child abductors                                                                                                                * Learn how to avoid Internet Predators
* Learn how to choose friends - more effectively
* Learn how and when to call 911
* Learn about bike & skateboard safety tips

and more...

$6.99

This book also comes with a detailed book review outline.

Middle School Student Safety Tips:

Based on true stories and written by a real Police Officers, this book has helped many Middle School Students:

* Learn what TO DO, if they come into contact with potential dangers                                                                                                                   * Learn how to avoid Internet Predators
* Learn how to recognize scams and cons
* Learn how to identify patterns that criminals prey upon

and more...

$8.99

This book also comes with a detailed book review outline.

High School Student Safety Tips:

Based on true stories and written by a real Police Officers, this book has helped many High School Students:

* Learn how to avoid Internet Predators
* Learn how to recognize scams and cons
* Learn how to avoid/exit a domestic violent relationship
* Learn how to avoid many date rape and other stealth type drugsapists
* Learn how to identify patterns that criminals prey upon

and more...

$8.99

This book also comes with a detailed book review outline.

College Student Safety Tips:

Based on true stories and written by a real Police Officers, this book has helped many College Students:

* Learn 20 MUST KNOW on/off campus safety tips
* Learn how to recognize scams and cons
* Learn how to recognize and avoid Internet Predators
* Learn how to avoid/exit a domestic violent relationship
* Learn how to avoid plots and scams that are planned by potential date rapists
* Learn how to identify patterns that criminals prey upon

and more...

$8.99

This book also comes with a detailed book review outline.

The Parent's Guide For Raising Safer K-12 Students

Based on true stories and written by a real Police Officers, this book has helped Parents:

* Teach their children how to avoid Internet Predators
* Teach their children how to avoid potential child abductors
* Teach their children how to recognize and avoid scams cons
* Teach their children how to identify patterns that criminals look for    * Teach their older children how to avoid/exit a domestic violent relationship
* Learn how to protect themselves and their families from home invaders
 

and more...

$8.99

This book also comes with a detailed book review outline.

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A hero aims to contribute, is willing to set an example and live by the truth of his or her principles -Officer Tony Newsom is one of those heroes. My heartfelt and sincerest support, congratulations and thanks go to Tony for continuing to go above and beyond the call of duty and helping people everywhere to live safer lives." - Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power

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Also, to order these books in Spanish, click here.

Parents and schools should buy the entire series to help children learn early on how to protect themselves and reinforce these tips and additional guidelines as they grow older. These books are worth their weight in gold for the information they teach children and young adults about safety. You can’t put a price on your child’s safety and these books ensure your child is prepared for anything.

Don’t put this purchase off until tomorrow.

There are predators everywhere TODAY waiting to take advantage of your child’s innocence. Buy these books and recommend them to other parents to help protect their children.

Share this information with your child’s school as well to give them the opportunity to buy the books at substantial savings and educate many students on CURRENT safety tips. The more educated children are on these NEWLY EFFECTIVE TIPS the safer our children will be.

"This devoted police officer’s amazing journey will give you, your family and your friends safe, sound advice. Tony, thank you for such a dynamic and empowering book."
 - James Malinchak, co-author of Chicken Soup for the College Soul and Chicken Soup for the ATHLETE’S Soul. Also, contributing author to the New York Times, Best Selling Book-Series, Chicken Soup for the Soul (100,000,000 Copies Sold).

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