A Texas mother speaks out after her home’s security camera recorded her children and their friends nearly being kidnapped.

Genna Skolnik first shared her door camera footage with ABC News affiliate WFAA, saying the incident happened Monday. The Dallas mother and her sons Zachary and Jonathan also spoke to “Good Morning America” ​​and recalled what happened when two vehicles pulled up next to the boys and their 9-year-old friends, who were playing outside.

“I heard screaming and I was thinking, and I could hear a commotion outside,” Skolnik said.

Zachary remembered when he thought the encounter took a new turn.

“We go out on the sidewalk and try to scurry past, and I hear the driver telling my friends to get in their car,” he said.

The camera caught the boys running, screaming and running.

“I was the first one at the door and screamed, ‘Someone is trying to kidnap us!'” Zachary said.

Video from a door camera shows a man in a white T-shirt and shorts getting out of a white SUV and running after Skolnik’s son, Jonathan.

Jonathan said the man called out to him and tried to lure him into the SUV.

“He said, ‘There’s a soccer ball in the back of the car.’ And then we were supposed to get in the back of the car. Then I said, ‘I’m sorry. I don’t talk to strangers and I ran away,'” Jonathan said.

Later, Skolnik came outside with a cellphone camera in her hand. The suspect noticed her and left the scene. However, she managed to take a photo of the SUV’s license plate, which she showed to ABC News.

The previous Monday, another near-kidnapping was caught on video just a few kilometers from Skolnik’s home.

Another surveillance video shows a teenage girl hiding behind a neighbor’s car, trying to escape being kidnapped by a man.

The owner of the car, Shane Burke, told GMA that the teenager came to his door for help.

“She said that someone she didn’t know was following her, staring at her and making her feel uncomfortable. She was deeply shaken,” Burke said.

Safety experts like Callahan Walsh, executive director of the Florida office of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, say that as children return to school, parents and educators should have conversations with children, reminding them what to do while walking and waiting at bus stops and how to stay safe.

“Children should be very cautious when approaching strangers in a car,” Walsh told GMA. “We know that the vast majority of attempted and successful kidnappings involve a car. We know that perpetrators use the same lures, like asking for directions, looking for a lost puppy or having candy. That’s why parents need to talk to their children about how to recognize these risky situations and how to avoid them.”

Experts also warn parents against printing their children’s names on backpacks so strangers don’t call them by name and confuse them. They also recommend parents limit the information about their children that they share on social media and avoid posting back-to-school pictures that show the child’s age, school, grade and other identifiable information.

Authorities are still looking for suspects in the two attempted kidnappings in Texas and say the two cases do not appear to be related.

The Skolniks say they were lucky after the kidnapping attempt.

“We were very lucky. And we are very grateful,” said Genna Skolnik.