Teaching Children Personal Safety
Here are some informational articles on child safety.
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Child Safety Basics
Rehearse with your child his or her full name, address, and phone number, including area code, and how to make emergency phone calls from home and public phones. Practice on an unplugged phone.
Teach your child to go to a store clerk or security guard and ask for help if you become separated in a store or shopping mall. Tell them never to go into the parking lot alone. And, when possible, accompany your child to the restroom.
Child Cell Phone Safety
There are some dangers associated cell phone technology. When you put a cell phone in children's hands, you're giving them access to the world and the world access to them, including when they're away from home and parental supervision. What's more, today's cell phones are not just mobile telephones. They're also Web browsers, instant messengers and e-mail terminals. In other words, just about everything you can do from an Internet-connected PC, you can also do from a cell phone.
Child Safety Game
One very useful tool to help you teach personal safety to your child is the "What If" game. In this game you come up with questions or situations and your child comes up with the answer. For example:
Parent: Let's pretend that you are home alone and the phone rings. You pick up the phone and it's someone that you don't know. They start asking you who you are and if your parents are home. What do you do?
Child Safety Rules
Make sure your child knows his/her full name, address (including state), telephone number (including area code), and how to reach the operator or make a long-distance call.
Child Water Safety
Always have an adult supervising children swimming. The adult should be poolside and observing the children in the pool. The adult should not be on the phone, or otherwise distracted. The adult should maintain observance of the children at all times when the children are in the pool.
Halloween Child Safety
Choose light or bright colored costumes and use light reflective tape.
Children shouldn't wear a mask; it restricts vision. If a mask must be worn, cut large eye holes. Make-up is much safer than a mask because it doesn't obstruct vision.
Online Child Safety Tips
Never give out identifying information — home address, school name, or telephone number — in a public message such as chat or newsgroups, and be sure you’re dealing with someone both you and your children know and trust before giving out this information via E-mail. Think carefully before revealing any personal information such as age, financial information, or marital status. Do not post photographs of your children in newsgroups or on web sites that are available to the public.
Preventing Child Abduction
Know where your children are at all times. Never leave your child unattended. Not even for a minute. Be familiar with their friends, friends parents and guardians, and their daily activities. Remind older children to call home and to come home at dark. Also you should be sensitive to changes in your children's behavior.
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Child Safety in Your Home
About 2-1/2 million children are injured or killed by hazards in the home each year. The good news is that many of these incidents can be prevented by using simple child safety devices on the market today. Here is an introduction to these child safety devices and their uses.
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Child Bike Safety
Always wear a bike helmet. The most serious bicycle injuries are to the head. Try to keep your bicycle in good working shape, especially the brakes. Always let cars and people go first. Slow down and check traffic at all corners. Keep both hands on the handle bars except when doing turn signals. Walk across busy streets and intersections. Stay off busy streets and intersections.
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