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It is GREAT to involve your kids with active roles, and do it as early as possible.. Then it's drill baby drill! It really gives them a sense of responsibility ownership and makes them more apt to remember all the parts of the evac and safety plan..
This is ridiculous. There are many situations where children need to know what to do in an emergency, and should absolutely NOT always rely on the fact that someone else will know what to do.
Most children are not going to run out of emergency preparedness classes and think how they can use the information for nefarious purposes. Any teaching on emergencies is accompanied by explicit instructions to not prank 911, and why. With caller ID, payphone cameras, etc., kids will only do it once before getting caught.
Right, they will lock up a 4-year old? Police coming out only adds to the excitement. Some parents are simply too lazy, self-centered, to supervise their children while they go bar hopping. Leaving a small child alone is NEVER acceptable, regardless of the emergency instructions the child has. A child can't do an adult's job!
Right, they will lock up a 4-year old? Police coming out only adds to the excitement. Some parents are simply too lazy, self-centered, to supervise their children while they go bar hopping. Leaving a small child alone is NEVER acceptable, regardless of the emergency instructions the child has. A child can't do an adult's job!
Haven't you heard about preschoolers calling 911 when their parent passes out or worse? Why would you think the child would have to be alone to use 911 or to know how to get our of a burning building?
If you "teach" young kids the above, you're just encouraging them to play with it. they could have a grand time playing with the fire extinguisher, call 911, set off the smoke alarms, fire extinguisher, etc.
When my kids were little, they gave a 911 lesson at school. shortly after that, 911 was inundated with calls from kids. Look a small child is (or should be) always supervised by an adult. Let the ADULT do the heroics! My 4-year old son was told in pre-school he could always dial 911, from any phone, even a pay phone. So, he called 911 from a payphone in a grocery store, some other kids told me he did so. I wondered why we saw so many police going through the store as we left. Don't give them any ideas, little kids are enough to keep in line as it is!
Congratulations on being the first person I've ever heard in my life being against teaching children basic safety skills.
Right, they will lock up a 4-year old? Police coming out only adds to the excitement. Some parents are simply too lazy, self-centered, to supervise their children while they go bar hopping. Leaving a small child alone is NEVER acceptable, regardless of the emergency instructions the child has. A child can't do an adult's job!
If your child calls 911 from your house, or wherever and hangs up. 911 calls that number back to check to see what is happening. If no one answers they sent out the police. Our oldest, when he was 3, called 911 from my sister's house to wish them Merry Christmas. Even the 911 operators will tell you they would rather get a call like that from a 3 year old vs reading in the paper that someone died because no one in the house knew how to dial 911.
The one thing you DO need to teach your children is NOT TO HIDE in a fire. A friend is the fire chief here and he says that more kids die in fires because the firemen can't find them. Often they are found hiding under beds, in closets, etc. because firemen in full turnout gear are SCARY to toddlers/young children. He visits the elementary schools at least 2 times every year, brings in his full turnout gear and shows the kids that it is a person under all of that. Think of how many kids are afraid of people in costume (at amusement parks, etc.). Same thing with firemen.
If your child calls 911 from your house, or wherever and hangs up. 911 calls that number back to check to see what is happening. If no one answers they sent out the police. Our oldest, when he was 3, called 911 from my sister's house to wish them Merry Christmas. Even the 911 operators will tell you they would rather get a call like that from a 3 year old vs reading in the paper that someone died because no one in the house knew how to dial 911.
The one thing you DO need to teach your children is NOT TO HIDE in a fire. A friend is the fire chief here and he says that more kids die in fires because the firemen can't find them. Often they are found hiding under beds, in closets, etc. because firemen in full turnout gear are SCARY to toddlers/young children. He visits the elementary schools at least 2 times every year, brings in his full turnout gear and shows the kids that it is a person under all of that. Think of how many kids are afraid of people in costume (at amusement parks, etc.). Same thing with firemen.
Glad you said something about the kids hiding in closets, although I've never thought of them being afraid of the firefighters! Interesting.
But it reminded me of a sad story that happened some years ago when my sister was an ER nurse. There was a house fire, and two teenage sisters died because they hid from the fire in a closet. TEENAGERS, who didn't know any better than this? Now that is sad, and somebody didn't do their job of teaching them any better.
Right, they will lock up a 4-year old? Police coming out only adds to the excitement. Some parents are simply too lazy, self-centered, to supervise their children while they go bar hopping. Leaving a small child alone is NEVER acceptable, regardless of the emergency instructions the child has. A child can't do an adult's job!
Your post makes no sense at all. Who said anything about the please coming out for a bogus 911 call, and teaching kids to be prepared for an emergency does not equate to leaving small children alone.
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Originally Posted by golfgal
The one thing you DO need to teach your children is NOT TO HIDE in a fire. A friend is the fire chief here and he says that more kids die in fires because the firemen can't find them. Often they are found hiding under beds, in closets, etc. because firemen in full turnout gear are SCARY to toddlers/young children. He visits the elementary schools at least 2 times every year, brings in his full turnout gear and shows the kids that it is a person under all of that. Think of how many kids are afraid of people in costume (at amusement parks, etc.). Same thing with firemen.
The moms group I went to when the kids were small did a fire station visit every year, and they always dressed up in full gear in front of the kids stating, as you said, the kids were often afraid of firemen, especially when they have on the breathing apparatus.
We have a safety village here where kids in pre-k, k, and 1st grade go. They learn all sorts of good stuff about fire safety, road safety, water safety, choking, touching, strange dogs, tornadoes, chemicals and medicines, etc. There's more to safety education that dialing 911.
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Any teaching on emergencies is accompanied by explicit instructions to not prank 911, and why. With caller ID, payphone cameras, etc., kids will only do it once before getting caught.
