How To Ensure That Your Child Is Safe When Alone?
There are different ways to ensure that your child is safe even when alone by teaching him or her below-mentioned things.
Teach them who strangers are: Most kids think bad looking people are strangers and good looking are with someone they can approach. But this is not true. Teach them that good looking people can have bad intensions too. However remind them that all strangers are not bad. In case they are lost and alone, they must approach a stranger to ask for helpSafety Circle: It's important that children approach the right person. Let them know about their safety circle that includes adults whom the child can trust. Parents, grandparents, reliable neighbours and few close and trusted relatives are the safe people to go to in any situation.
Recognizing dangerous situation: Teach your children how to recognize the situation in which they need to be alert. Situations likeIf stranger ask them for candies, sweets moneyIf someone tells to disobey your parents and go against their parent wishesAsk them to keep a secretIf someone behaves inappropriately like physical touch are example of when they need extra careful
Tell your child to make noise as that will put the attacker in a difficult situation
Awareness: As parent with a young child its important to know your child friend circle, talk them, call them for get together at home, child activities on web, check their mails ,social account and phone. Keep a monitoring eye on your child's activities.
Encourage group activities: Most adverse situation can be avoided if one is in group,alone made for easier target. Encourage your child to be with group. There's always safety in numbers. The recent incident that shook the entire nation may have had a different outcome if the child was accompanied by other children. Who knows? But we can teach our child to never venture out alone.
Good touch and bad touch: Teach your child about good touch and bad touch. You can show videos where the child is being physically abused and the child had courage to share it with her parents.
The safety of our child is in our hands, let's ensure that we teach them to be safety smart in any given situation.
