How can I get my children on this show?? I have a 7 year old son (stranger danger); 11 girl (bullying/cheating) and a 16 year old son (driving/cheating/bullying)...we recently moved from Il to OH and would like to see how they would respond since we are in a new city/situation

I really hope these shows continue. I plan on watching these with my son as well as my students. Please keep up the good work!

This is probably the best DateLine show ever made! (I'm staying tuned for the next episodes), Although I have no children, and am 51 years old, I remember what was taught to me by my parents, "Never take candy from a stranger"! That was the "terminology" used in the 60's. Which makes me wonder...why did the children eat the FREE ice cream? Why did the parents not have a problem with "eating free ice cream"?? That may have been as bad, or worse than a possible abduction! The police officer's daughter had the best reaction. However, NO child should eat ANY food product given to them by a "total stranger"! That being said, teach your children NOT to turn their back to their drink in a bar! (18-21+ years of age)

It's all about "Trust"! And that should be a very difficult thing to obtain. Unless your driving a really pretty "Ice Cream Truck" ö :)

I think we as parents should stop telling our kids about strangers, and focus more on telling them do not talk to, go to, or accept anything from people they do not know. This show was so important and as a parent, I felt everything those parents were feeling. Thank you thank you thank you.

I think we have to NEVER EVER LET UP in teaching them that STRANGER'S ARE DANGER....Never turn your back on them even for a second....that is all the time it takes....(KEEP YOUR KIDS SAFE....).

I just finished watching this with my children and it was very informative. Here's my issue...you have been advertising to watch this with my kids (2 girls ages 10 and 12), and too my surprise a commercial comes on for a NBC show showing a woman in bra and panties getting slammed down on a counter and a man holding a gun to her head. Then it jumps to the next scene of a woman in bra and panties straddling a man in bed. What the heck is wrong with the programmers over there who make these decisions. NBC really messed up on this one!!!

I would love to see more episodes like this one to help me keep my four young daughters safe. I would love to have them tested to see what I might need to reinforce. If I could be on the show I would be so grateful. As a parent you try so hard to keep them safe but you always wonder...is it enough? Please, please have more shows like this so my children and others can watch the different stranger danger situations that can take place. Telling them is one thing, watching is another, combined it strengthens the end result...keep our kids safe! GREAT JOB DATELINE!!!

Please re-run this episode if possible too!

Those kids would remember the lesson a whole lot better if the "ice cream man" had slammed the truck doors shut and carried them to the end of the sidewalk before reuniting them with their parents. They all got on the truck and got to have ice cream, too! What's up with that? What did the kids learn? The ones who got the lesson were the parents!

Good show. But I have to question if the parents would do the same thing if set up the same way. I suspect many adults have gotten into cars with drunk frriends. I'd like to see this same approach used on the parents before it's used on their children--the results could be just as eye opening.

I just watched the driving episode. Is there anyway to see a replay in its entirety? I would love to show this to a group of teens I volunteer with.

I hope to see more shows like this one that aired last night. Wish there could have been some teenagers by my side watching this with me. Would they have sat there and really watched it, or would they have just blown it off??

My son is almost 14. I have always been VERY protective of him and RARELY allow him to go to his friends houses. He argues a lot more now that he is getting bigger and older and feels I should let him and trust him to do the right thing. My concern is not about him getting in the car with a TEEN who has been drinking but with a PARENT/ADULT!! His father and I don't drink so how can I show him what to look for. I explained to him that if he is with his friends parents and they go to a restaurant and have even one drink he shouldn't get in the car with them. He thinks I'm being over protective but how does he know what medication they're on. How many drinks did they have before they got to the restaurant, etc.? How can he tell an adult he will not ride home with him/her because she had a drink at dinner without embarrassing himself, angering the adult, giving in, so on? What if the adult is a family member? I wish I could keep him with me every minute of everyday but I have to let him go with friends sometimes. What can I do to help him know what to do in a situation like that?

CONGRATULATIONS ON A JOB WELL DONE!!

The 'My Kid would never do that' series went above and beyond in spot-lighting situations that children are faced with every single day. In addition, it alerted parents (and in my case-grand-parent), to NEVER take for granted that children understand what we 'hope' they do!

I never miss Dateline, and when I saw this series, I decided to tape it and watch it with my grand-daughters (a 3yr old and an 8 yr old) on the Monday nights that I keep them.

I could write a book on their comments, the interest, and the questions that we were able to learn from and discuss. My 3 yr old was as interested and knowledgeable as the 8 yr old. They have shared in their own words with their parents, teachers and school-mates what they learned about 'stranger-danger'-driving, and cheating. They did not miss a beat!

As we ended the series last night, my 8 yr old said--"PLEASSSSE -just tell them to do another one for next Monday night!" When I ask what she thought was a problem in her age group--she was able to list several topics.

This series and hopefully others will be added ( as I KNOW there are many more topics of interest) should be in every home and school system in the nation!

Thank you so much, Dateline, for opening this avenue for a hands-on, visual discussion for me and my grand-daughters. It was if we were right there.

YOU made a difference!

It's so encouraging to see that some kids will choose what's right! Congratulations to all of them, and their parents!!

This program is scewed! It does not allow for open honest opinions to be expressed. It is set up by a twisted main stream attitude that America is Racist. If it we turned around from the other side it would prove even more racial bias than you are showing. This is nothing more than LIBERAL BS! Thank God your ratings are going down.

Get to broadcasting truth and then see what happens.

Disgusted

I had to comment on your program about discrimination. I was very disappointed when I watch and wondered if you realized that you only proved that peer pressure rules. Your tests were designed to fail. You created a situation in which you have 2 actors who are aware of the goal to discriminate who worked very hard to manipulated 2 unknowing victims.

Any first year sociology or psychology student would recognize the true dynamics of your experiment. Peer pressure is what caused the unknowing victims to cave. This proved nothing about discrimination. In fact the very last test with 2 actors and 3 unknowing victims proved that when the actors could no longer control the experiment that the result was just the opposite.

My point is that I expected a higher level for reporting from your program and I'm disappointed that you could not find a better way to make your point. I do believe that we all do share a certain level of discrimination but I also wonder if as humans that we may need to recognize that discrimination may also be just part of being human.

You can do better - Thanks

My daughter and I both noticed one racial stereotype that was actually reinforced tonight instead of eliminated. The judges, and particularly the actors, were never the same race as the victim, but the victims of racial prejudice were all non-white. This reinforces the idea that only white people discriminate and that white people are not discriminated against. Would a predominantly African-American panel judging a white performer, with African-American actors making anti-white racial comments, have performed any differently? This is a great show, and I don't mean to detract from it. Basing decisions on race - either for someone or against someone - is racism, and it's not limited to white people.

Can you say entrapment?!! Peer preasure? I cannot believe how you set this up! does not show predjudice. This was a ridiculous manipulated exercise! You are looking for trouble where there is none. There is enough predjudice without you creating it. Shame on you! UYour professor makes her living creating a society where there is predjudice under everry rock and that is not the case.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series and intend to use it with students, family members, and my own kids. The one thing I was discouraged by was this: there was no discussion of discrimination based on physical and mental disability. As a special ed teacher, I saw this first hand and it's a HUGE problem! From the ubiquitous use of "retarded" as an adjective to staring at and making fun of blind and deaf children behind their backs (and to their faces), I feel that this would have been a GREAT platform to address bullying and discrimination of differently-abled teens. Please bring this issue to light and do another surprising social experiment to help America reevaluate how and what we teach our children.

I am amazed at two issues. First, this type research is illegal per Federal regulations on human subjects research. Putting people in distressing situations such as this has not been acceptable since the reactions to the Milgram experiments. I am stunned that NBC would not understand that. Parental consent cannot be used as an excuse to commit ethically and legally inappropriate research. Where is the university's IRB approval? Did the investigator's IRB really buy it? Or did your "academic" forgo her obligation to submit this to her university prior to this travesty? Something is amiss here. Having minority status does not make it okay to break the rules, or set one's own. It does not excuse unprofessional behavior.

Second, it really requires an unexpected level of arrogance to think it is okay to treat people that way, regardless of the purported higher purpose (a bogus excuse). Then your staff is disconnected with reality to the point that they buy into the charade. And you broadcast attacks against bullying while implying it is okay for you? What gives you the right to abuse kids, bullying them, and reinforce stereotypes when you hold to social positions against those behaviors. Are you that self-righteous?

Did it not occur to anyone that the very thing they were pushing the kids to is what NBC fell into? Was it not such politically correct peer pressure to which you fell victim? Then have the audacity to be patronizing to the kids about it? As the poster above stated, this is not about discrimination, but about peer pressure to the point of bullying. Shame on you. "Expert in team dynamics"? Seriously? Your "experts" apparently left their expert hats at home.

I really thought better of you than that. I am very upset with NBC right now. Natalie, your own heritage did not hint that this is not right? Someone needs to be called to account for this, who is responsible? Will NBC have the integrity to answer?

But, then again, this is the network that has had to publicly apologize for yellow journalism of late. Maybe your apology was not as sincere as you tried to make it. Apparently, there are some racist bullies at the helm of your sinking ship.

I would like to use today's (Sunday, May 6 at 7/6c: Discrimination) in my classroom. Do I need permission from dateline or can I just use the link. ???

This was a valuable lesson for children as well as adults. It reminds us to work on talking to our children and teaches our children that they make choices everyday and to make sure their choices are what they think and not what others want them to think. This exercise should be implemented in every middle and high school in America. If we could practice this example we all benefit from the lesson. It could change the way people treat one another. Great Job Natalie and Dateline

So why wasn't there one scenario of a White American kid as
the best singer while the kid judges were Hispanic American, African American, Asian
American and Middle Eastern American? It would appear the directors of this
show either don’t recognize the racism against White Americans in this country
or like some of these kid judges, they succumb to peer pressure and look the
other way.

I do think this was a valuable show, however I feel very hurt that the "white" kids were always portrayed as the perpetrator and never the victim. I just wonder if NBC is trying to send one of two messages, either they don't think that racism against "white"(very racist term) people is real or they think they it is ok to be racist against "white" people? I think racism/discrimination is wrong no matter where it comes from or where it is directed. It has become socially acceptable to to attack "white" people, accusing them of being the only racist people. I find this to be hurtful. My family was the only "white" family in the neighborhood that I grew up in, and let me tell you we were discriminated against. We were called anything from, "gringos" to "white trash" and people would throw eggs at our house, just because we were different. Ever here anyone call a "white" person, "cracker"? What about the movie, "White men can't jump", doesn't that sound racist to you?