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Lessons in School Safety – Resolving Conflict: Part 10 of our 10-part Home and Personal Security Series

by admin on March 21, 2010

When your kids are out of your sight, you worry. They could be out with friends or down the street playing. What about school? It is a contained environment just like the workplace where your kids will interact with others.

School is where kids get to test those interpersonal skills that their parents taught them. For them, it is real life. They learn that everyone doesn’t think like them or look like them. It is a time of wonder and conflict.
Over the last decade, our world has seen violence in schools on epic scales. School shootings occurred on secondary school and college campuses. Kids must learn to prepare themselves for the worse.
Even before school shootings made the news, kids have dealt with difficult situations and physical bullying at school. Teaching your child to stay safe in the educational environment begins with teaching them how to deal with others. [click to continue…]

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Teaching Personal Safety to Your Kids: Part 6 of our 10-part Home and Personal Security Series

by admin on February 21, 2010

It’s never too early to teach your kids how to take care of themselves. Criminals aren’t going to wait until they are “of age” to see them as targets. Use the following tips to get the point across to your children.

1.    Help them learn where they live. While they are ticking off those ABCs, add some other helpful information as well. They might not be able to spell their address but they can memorize it. If they are ever lost, they can find help and get back to you.

2.    Teach them to say your name. They’ll only use your name when they are in trouble just like you use their full name when they are in trouble. Saying “mommy” and “daddy” isn’t going to help the police.

3.  Tell them how to answer the door. To a child, someone with a smile seems friendly. So, telling them not to open the door to a stranger might get confusing. When you are not around (using the bathroom or in the shower), a child shouldn’t let anyone in the house even if it is a family member. At a young age, this will prevent them from opening the door to the wrong person. When they are older, they can open the door to people that they recognize. [click to continue…]

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