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TEACH YOUR CHILD FIRST!TRAINED CHILDREN ARE SAFER!
THIS IS ABOUT YOUR CHILD!A new era in child safety!SO THEY WILL KNOW!
Develop the children's minds!Safety devices and watchful parents are great but at some point in time each child with become mobile and have more freedom - therefore, they will have more potential to get into trouble and be injured. Our mission is to encourage parents to teach safety to their children, so the child can help protect themselves. In order to teach safety, so that safety is part of a child's behavior requires a method of teaching that produces results. We, at Safety Smart Kids.com, feel that we have discovered several effective methods of teaching children safety. Safety comes only from motivated kids. Our approach to safety centers on motivation. A child needs to incorporate safety into the process of daily life, or little has been gained. Children need to think about safety everyday? How do we do that? They need motivation! From our CD, "Being a Safe Kid©”, we found that children can contribute a great deal to their own safety! Our CD provides children with “safety tools”. The "tools" are "skills" that give the children both an understanding of a safety lesson and "memory tools" which allow the children to retain what they learned.
Kids, as we have seen, "Don't touch chemicals!Child safety starts here!The goal in training is results. If we can affect behavior that moves our child in direction of safety, then everything else becomes secondary. If a child doesn’t play near the fireplace because their parents have taught them it is not safe, does it matter that they understand completely the seriousness of a burn. What is important is; that they don’t play near the fire place. Teaching each child is unique. The degree of obedience varies as does their intelligence. Personalities play a roll in risk taking. Males tend to be more active than females and as a result are more likely to be injured. There are many factors affecting the creation of a child that is sensitive to the need for safety in their environments. A good approach in teaching is: 1) Establish the safety lesson first – can be only the “no” word in some cases – repeat as necessary. 2) Increase their understanding of – “why” – as appropriate for each child in the given set of circumstances – as they mature. 3) Follow through with supplemental aids to help teach the principle – anything and everything that “cements” the principle.
My kids won't obey me!
If your kids want to play in the kitchen while you are cooking, for example, then you have some training to do. Maybe you have never trained them, or perhaps they're too young to understand or there may be other considerations as to why they are in the kitchen when it is dangerous.
You, the parent, have to “pick up the banner” of "safety" and train or retrain them and ensure that: They do not play in the kitchen when you are cooking. How simple can this be? It is your job to make sure that this happens! The goal is when you start cooking the kids will, without thinking or any conversation, find another place to play. This is a major victory for your children’s well being. “If you are away from the fire it is hard to get burned”. This should be an automatic behavioral pattern whether they are at “Aunt Suzie’s house” or at summer camp. They will avoid the kitchen when someone is cooking. All children will test authority however some kids can be very difficult. If you can’t control your kids, then, before you address safety, you need to work on this aspect of parenting. This is not meant to be judgmental. Raising children is difficult and sometimes children do not respond to parental authority. There is some help on the Internet. These webs sites offer some professional help, so that you can go forward with your safety training for children. MY KIDS DON'T MIND ME!Great links for help with behavior problems!Better Behavioral WheelHelp!How To Improve Your Child's BehaviorWe teach so they will never forget!
In the CD, "Being a Safe Kid ©", children learn from the visual images. They can see the results of the accident first hand. From the visual images comes the safety message - the child has a clear image of why they should not touch the stove. They have it (the message loud and clear), they can see what happened, and they have a new respect for stove burners. We call this "step on bug" training. Even a very small child understands that what happens to a bug, when you step on it, is not good for the bug. They can also see that what happened to our friend Mr. Mel-On-Head is something they should avoid. They have a picture that is worth a thousand words. Stay away from the stove!A logical question is: "Do they comprehend what they've seen?" Does it really matter? Some children may comprehend and some will not. The measure of success is not the degree of comprehension but rather: “Will the child be more likely to stay away from the stove after training?” If they stay away from the stove, then we are successful, because they will not likely be burned. Training can come in many different kinds, but probably the most important method is when you show your child how do something in a safe way, and then follow through to ensure they understand the concept you taught them. Lead by example and make sure your child knows you are being careful so they can learn from you. We have lost sight of their innocence!In the effort we put forth, it is important to not get lost in the world of marketing to our kids. Safety is not about a pretend world that we "feed" our children. It is about reality that you as the parent must bring to the child as a serious side of life. Stop all the foolishness of the fantasy world we normally present to them and say what needs to be said. Do we, “over do” everything for our kids? Are we so caught up in making everything a “Disneyland Adventure” that we have lost sight of their innocence. A few years ago there were several successful low budget videos for children. These were “low tech”, almost home grown videos that were very popular. These videos were about road building machines or the machines at airports that carry our bags. The kids loved them. The kids don’t need a $50 million dollar production to get their attention. Don’t feel guilty for having to have a serious talk with your kids – we tend to want to make everything a “party”. The time you spend showing them how to be careful is quality time. Neither will a video game nor any movie ever replace the value of you talking directly to your children. Build a relationship of trust and teach them that it is OK to be serious when it is needed. Safety can be taught with just a few words. A few words and a hug work even better. They will learn and they will grow in their abilities so that someday, when they are on their own they will have a lifetime of safety lessons that you shared with them. Safety is for a life time. We devote our lives to our children, make sure we finish the job!Teach them how to protect themselves!
Listen closely, for this is really important!Results are the goal of our teaching!
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