Headed Back To School, 10 Safety Tips For Your Kids!
School is back in session for most kids and even though many parents and kids are all jumping for joy, we still must make sure to keep our children safe.
As the school year begins, we need to take precautionary measures to keep students and the community safe. Both drivers and pedestrians need to pay attention to vehicles, students, and their surroundings. With many children walking to school some with groups and some alone, please alert your child about certain areas to avoid and to pay attention to his or her surroundings.
Do you know statistic tells us that many predators lurk during the hours of school time? To me that’s sickening and as a parent I know if it’s within my power to lessen the chance of anything happening to my child I will! So, that’s why I teach them important safety tips every time they head back to school! I know they may be saying, my mom sounds like a broken record because I repeat the same tips daily! I do this, so they’ll know I mean business and to make sure they know what to do in case something happens!
Here are a few tips I think as parents we all need to discuss with our children daily:
- Pay attention to everyone around you…….EYES OPEN and EARS ALERT
- Walk in Groups if doable….If not BE ALERT AT ALL TIMES
- Never talk to strangers….NEVER
- Never except a ride from ANYONE….NEVER
- Before crossing the street…..LOOK BOTH WAYS
- Never walk behind your school bus or any vehicle….NEVER
- RUN or SCREAM if you feel danger is lurking……..EVEN Equip Your Children With A Whistle
- Walk straight to school, NO DETOURING…….EVER
- Be alert around school parking lots……ALWAYS!
- DON’T Let Your CELLPHONE KEEP YOU DISTRACTED……..walk with your head UP and save all conversations until later more so afterschool!!
Remember its Back to School time, learn, be safe, and listen to your teachers!
Keep your EYES Open and Ears alert, have a safe Back to School return everyone!
~A Caring Mom
I’m going to print out your list and put it in each of the kid’s bookbags after we go over it. Over and over it that is. I worry about the kids when they’re not here. It’s just not safe anymore.
These are great tips for getting the kids back to school. We just had a talk on stranger danger!
Great tips! So very important especially right before back to school to brush up on them, and keep a reminder all year round!
Great tips! Totally agree with you on this especially #10 since most of the kids nowadays have gadgets that distract them.
So important that kids don’t deter from their normal route. I think these are all good tips to keep in-mind and to really teach our children!
Great tips, we discussed all of these with our children. We don’t let them take their phones in school.
These are great reminders to all kids and will be very helpful for their safety. Thanks for sharing it.
We live a bit too far away to walk,p to school and there’s no bus, but these rules apply to walking to parks, on trails, riding bikes and around the neighborhood too. Wonderful tips.
These are some great tips! Children definitely need to have adults who are on their side and watching out for the dangerous that are about.
It’s definitely important to pay attention to your surroundings, especially since way too many cars won’t pay attention to your kids. These are great safety tips for all parents to remember.
These are such great tips. I’ve told my kids a lot of these. I basically tell my kids to hit the person in the crotch if they try to grab at them.
I’m definitely going to go over this list with mey son the kindergartner. thank you for this! Back to school time is such a good time to go over this stuff.
It’s good to have a refresher on safety for kids. It helps to be prepared and make sure that kids know about how to be as safe as possible.
Thank you for posting these safety tips. It’s always so important for the kiddos to keep these in mind.
I have reviewed these safety tips with my kids. They do not have cell phones yet but all of the others apply to them. Thanks for sharing!
Not going to lie – reading all these articles about BACK TO SCHOOL get me VERY excited because – well, this just means FALL is coming!!!!
My grandchildren are still to young to walk to school by themselves. Never to young to start talking to them about safety. We look out for the older kids walking to school as well.
These are great tips and ones that we should follow at all times. We cannot be too vigilant when it comes to our children!
These are all great tips. All kids (and parents) need to be aware of these so we all stay safe for this coming school year.