8 tips to help parents teach and encourage good safety habits in young children?

Answer 1

Well, shoot, I wrote 10 suggestions, and I'm not sure they are really what you were looking for. Anyhow, I'll leave them, and if they are useful, great. If not, just ignore them!

Here's my 8 tips:
1. Make it fun!
2. Make it a group activity, even if its a group of you and the child.
3. Include music, rhythm or rhyme with it.
4. Make a poster including simple words and pictures the child can help with.
5. Return to the lesson daily with a "you did this so well" star and some followup discussion. Keep it simple!
6. Young children don't have good impulse control, so no matter what you teach, be aware that you have to enforce and supervise, always.
7. The simplest way to teach most safety habits is to model good safety habits (and exaggerate what you do that you want a child to learn).
8. When you do something that you don't want a child to do, such as plugging in an appliance or lighting a fire, tell them what you are doing, and ask if this is a child activity or a grown-up activity. They should be able to tell you that is a grownup activity.



Here is what I originally wrote, and decided to leave for you, if it's useful.
1. Never ever go anywhere without asking Mom or Dad about it.
2. Always go with a friend/sibling if you go into a public bathroom, and be sure Mom or Dad knows where you are. (A parent should ALWAYS wait DIRECTLY outside an opposite sex public restroom for children... and it doesn't hurt to open the door and loudly announce to the child that "Mom is right here.")
3.Explain to small children WHY they must not go with strangers. The truth is that the stranger may seem nice at first, then be very mean, and scary, and won't let the child come back to Mommy, and may hurt the child or scare them in mean ways. Be clear and honest.
4. Teach children how to approach a dog, whether large or small, and teach them why they must avoid strange dogs. This is also a good idea with cats (and any large animal).
5. Teach children not to reach up to the stove or on the counter without a step-stool to see where their hand is going, and to leave things in the kitchen alone without an adult to help them. To get their own drinks they should be supervised, as well.
6. Teach them to stay away from the fireplace, candles, campfires, and the BBQ. Show them (kindly) what happens... let them feel a very hot item, such as your coffee cup (don't burn them!), and explain that hot is very dangerous.
7. Teach children to stay out of and away from all machines, including cars, lawnmowers, farm equipment, garbage trucks, etc. With small children in the house, keep your car doors locked, even in your own garage. This keeps little ones out of the car, out of the trunk, and out of trouble.
8. Teach little children Mommy's and Daddy's entire name. Your name is not "Mom." They should be able to sing or recite from memory your names, their whole name, their address, and their phone number. They should know where you work, as well.
9. Teach them never ever to go NEAR water without a parent with them. Not another child. A parent. Teach them the same way you did with the strangers. Put a tiny amount of water in a shallow plate and show them that they can't breathe with water in their nose.
10. Teach little children how to know which way a car is going. If the white lights are on, it's coming towards you (backing up). Teach them carefully to cross the street and to walk near traffic. This is ALWAYS an adult-assisted ativity until they are older.

Answer 2

tell your infants: a million. there will be no dessert if no dinner is eaten. a million/2 the dinner eaten may be often happening. 2. now and lower back dessert is fruit! 3. No throwing your nutrition, or fiddling with it. 4. Use your serviette, fork and knife. 5. in case you particularly are not hungry, do no longer tension it down. practice your infants: 6. consume nutritious ingredients, so they're going to. in the event that they see you ingesting burgers and fries, yet you supply them tofu and peas, they're going to revolt!! 7. consume on the table as a relatives. No television at dinnertime; that's a time to speak and compensate for the day. 8. cook dinner with your infants! From as youthful as 2 or 3, they're going to take excitement in stirring and blending, or reducing out cheese or cookies in distinctive shapes. that's a reliable thank you to coach them that nutrition is to be enjoyed, and what ingredients to consume.

Answer 3

Keep doing safty drills and keep going over it with your child.

Answer 4

http://www.cpsc.gov/kids/kidsafety/