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"Don't go in there." "Watch out!" "Look behind you! " You just wish that the main characters of horror movies could hear you saying these things to them. But they can't, so you continue to sit there, paralyzed with fear, just knowing that more people are going to die horrible, grotesque deaths by some wacko with a mask on, or some alien creature from somewhere unknown.

Considering that the characters of movies can't hear you. It's pretty much like being a Mother, because kids don't hear anything you tell them either. It's out of your control; they're going to do it anyways. Considering that some of this is what I tell my kids all the time, these are the lessons I've learned from watching horror movies that just might save your life.

Take your cell phone with you. I tell my kids this everyday, but I still find their cell phones under their dirty laundry in their rooms. Having your cell phone with you could save your butt from whatever might happen to you. Your car could die on a lonely deserted road late at night, where some creepy madman lives, whom has every kind of knife known to man.

Keep the doors locked. When you're driving or making out in your car in a strange place, (I didn't tell them this, their father did), keep the car doors locked. Keep the car windows rolled up, and use the air conditioner if it's hot out. So the car doesn't die, and you have to get out of their fast- leave the engine running.

Don't answer the door for strangers, or for machete holding whack jobs either. Look outside before you answer the door. Forget that. Don't let anybody in the house when we are not home, and that goes for Nana and Papa too. You just never know about people anymore.

Don't talk to strangers. Even the really nice looking young guy down the street could be a freak, so don't talk to him. This goes with don't take candy from strangers. Don't get in cars with strangers-especially don't pick up strangers along the road who are carrying axes, knives, or guns.

Never go to a strange town with your friends for a good time, or become a camp counselor with a bunch of strangers on an island in the middle of nowhere. Speaking of camping, don't go camping with your friends in the woods. Don't tell ghost stories late at night in the middle of the woods, when you're camping with your friends. And when the town weirdo tells everyone about someone being killed, or dying by strange means, then get out of there fast.

If birds start landing near you, and you're not feeding them, walk

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