Originally Posted by GUWonder

Have all the people forgotten the lessons of "stranger danger"?

One of the kids being asked this stuff at ORD had come off my flight from Europe and was a Swedish kid on fall vacation, so perhaps "stranger danger" isn't as strong a concept there. But then again talking to strangers isn't as casual there as it is in the US, at least for adults.

Children really shouldn't be encouraged to be government informants on their parents as much as they should be encouraged to practice stranger danger. This aspect of the TSA mentality of "see something, say something" really is not all that useful and is rather sociopathic. Welcome to what kind of stuff we get from the TSA supposedly doing the TDC/travel document check.