Kids Are Our Future

Child safety first

Children at this period have more independence and less adult supervision, and may be at risk for injuries from accidents because of their ignorance. Here are some safety tips.

• By traffic safety code, all children younger than 12-year-old should ride in the back seat with a seat belt fastened.
• Talk to the child early and often about tough issues like violence, alcohol and drug abuse.
• Whenever the child goes outside playing with his or her friends, parents need to know where he or she will go and when will be backing home. And ask the child write down the phone number and address of his friends’ home.

Tips

• Talk with the child about his or her friends, accomplishments, and challenges.
• Encourage the child to read every day.
• Talk with the child about his or her homework.
• Go to school events and talk to the child’s teachers.
• Encourage the child to join school and community groups, such as a team sport, volunteer activities.
• Meet the families of the child’s friends.
• Teach the child deal with some difficult situation. For example, what to do when others are not kind; when his or her friends pressure him or her to do risky things like smoking or dangerous physical dares.
• Help the child develop his or her own sense of right and wrong.
• Talk with the child about respecting others.
• Encourage the child to help people in need.
• Help the child set his or her own goals.
• Encourage the child to think about skills and abilities he or she would like to have and discuss how to develop them.
• Help the child to build self-confidence.
• Help the child develop a sense of responsibility.
• Talk to the child about saving and spending money wisely.
• Make clear rules and stick to them.
• Use discipline to guide and protect the child.
• Talk with the child about the normal physical and emotional changes of puberty.

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