Plain or Peanuts??

As I watched my daughter make friends effortlessly at the park today I realized that I had a problem with her that I had never had to face with my son. My son will barely talk to his friends a the park much less approach a stranger. While we have warned her about talking to strangers, we probably haven't driven the rule as hard as we should. I called her over and sat her on my lap and began to talk to her about "stranger danger". She said "but mommy, these people aren't strangers, they're nice". Oh boy....I had my work cut out for me. I explained to her that not all strangers are nice and that some strangers that seem nice aren't really nice. She looked confused. I decided to teach by example instead. I asked her what she should do if a stranger tried to talk to her. She said "run to my mommy". Okay....good....we were getting somewhere. I told her that sometimes strangers act nice and then they steal little girls and boys from their mommy and daddy. Then I said, "if a lady that you didn't know offered you some M-n-M's, what would you do?" She looked up at me with her big brown eyes and said, "the plain kind or with the nuts?. Looks like we'll be spending some more time talking about strangers!