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Safety Skills: Critical fire safety tips for families (+ a FUN scavenger hunt)

Teach your kids critical fire safety tips with this free printable fire safety scavenger hunt. Have fun with your kids and get peace of mind, too!Teach your kids essential fire safety tips with this free printable fire safety scavenger hunt. Have fun with your kids and get peace of mind, too!

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Does your family have a clear plan of what to do if your house were ever to catch fire?

It’s been just over a year since we moved into a new house. All the boxes were unpacked ages ago, and we’re slowly working through the process of furnishing and decorating the space. However, one thing we hadn’t done until this week was to make a fire safety plan.

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Safety Skills: What you need to teach your child about getting lost…how I learned the hard way

Do your kids know what to do if they ever get separated from you? Prepare them today with a simple family safety plan–seven simple things your kids NEED to know if they get lost. Child walking alone on grassToday, I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I lost one of my children…and not just for a few minutes of looking around before finding him happily oblivious to being lost. No, this was almost 30 minutes of having my three-year-old son out of my sight…in a public park that was surrounded by roads and having NO idea where to look for him next.…

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Safety Skills: How to teach your child to memorize his phone number

If your child ever got separated from you, would they know your name and phone number to give to a trusted adult? These simple activities will give your kids a key tool to keep them safe in case of such an emergency.If your child ever got separated from you, would they know your name and phone number to give to a trusted adult? These simple activities will give your kids a key tool to keep them safe in case of such an emergency.Little Man is four now, and I figured it would be a good idea to start teaching him some basic emergency skills, especially knowing a phone number to give a trusted adult if he ever got lost or separated from us in an emergency situation. I suppose it’s not exactly fire safety, but it’s essential information for kids to know.

We’ve used some time during our home preschool over the past several weeks to talk about the different helpers in our community (firemen, police men, doctors, etc.) and what we need to know for emergencies when we might talk to those helpers.

We talked about three things he might need to tell a grown up helper:…

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