Hwarang Youth Safety Program
Kids need to feel safe at home!
1. Always teach your kids to lock all doors, and do not ever open a door to talk to anyone when they are alone at home.
2. Make sure when kids are home alone to make arrangements for a family member or close friend to stop in often to make sure the kids are alright, and safe. Make sure someone calls also to check on their safety at all times.
3. Make sure the parents set-up good rules for the kids to follow, and post the rules up where they can see them each day. Parents have to set good examples, and enforce the rules of the home.
4. When choosing a good baby-sitter go through a professional service that will have a back ground check on each baby sitter, and that they are professional at their job, or use a trusted family member only. Make sure you contact their references for the baby-sitter, and listen to your kids why they don't like the baby-sitter.
5. Sit down, and talk with your kids on an equal bases, and listen to them, and their concerns.
Safety for young babies:
1. Make sure all jewelry is placed in a safe place were babies cannot reach it, babies can swallow jewelry, and choke on it.
2. Always store poisonous liquids, and materials in a lock cabinet so that a child cannot reach it, or consume it.
3. Make sure all elements on a stove are not unattended when turned on, and always turned off so the child does not reach up, and touch them. While cooking make sure all handles on pots, and pans are turned to the back of the stoves so the child does pull them down on themselves causes a major burn.
4. Make sure all sharp knives, forks, utensils with points are secured in a safe drawer even if you have to put a small lock on the drawer.
5. Make sure all windows have safety locks so the child cannot open a window, or push a screen out.
6. Put a safety covers on all electrical outlets, and plug-ins so a child does not stick their fingers in the sockets, or outlets.
7. Keep all pet foods up, and away of a small child which can make a child violently sick.
8. Do not leave babies, or kids unattended in bath tubs.
9. Do not leave toilet lids up, and open so a child can fall in, and drown.
Special safety tips for kids.
1. All kids at all ages should memorize their full name, contact number for parents, and their home address. Kids should know what state they live in.
2. Kids should know their parents full name, when leaving home with parents kids should be able to identify their parents clothing that they are wearing, they should know what kind vehicle, and color that their parents drive, and possible also know the license plate number of the vehicle.
3. Kids should know how to dial 911, should there be an emergency at home, or elsewhere in public.
4. Older youths should know to do C.P.R.
5. Kids should know the law on touching of another human being, they should know that no one has the right to touch them even with a finger, it is against the law which is called an bodily assault by touching without authorization by another, this is a felony. Their parents, and or family members are the only one who can touch them without physical abuse.
6. Kids should know that if an adult, or strangers approaches them with questions for help, or even directions, or gives them candy, gifts, or favors of any kind, or are followed should let another adult, parent, teachers, police officers about it.
7. Parents should never leave a child untended, or alone in a vehicle, or in a vehicle with a running engine no matter what age.
8. Parents should train kids to use the word 'NO', and it is OK to use it with strangers, or if they feel unsafe around other people no matter what age.
9. Parents should never drop kids off unattended at malls, arcades, movie theaters, and especially parks unsupervised by an adult. Parents should never leave a child alone in toy section of a department store. Children sitting in a shopping cart should never be left alone unattended ever, and should be secured in the shopping cart sit with a security belt at all times.
10. Kids should never walk home alone, and should walk home with a group of kids, or use the 'Buddy system'. The parents should set-up a walking route for the kids from home, and to school, and what times they leave school, and time of arrival at home that has to be a habit.
11. If the kids are to be pick-up by a parent, or family member then the school should have a list of all authorized person to pick the child up.
12. Kids should know what neighbors they can go to encase an emergency only. Get to know your neighbors.
13. Kids should know what cars belong to their neighborhood, and be able to recognize unfamiliar cars, and be able to identify them, and know how to report them.
14. Kids should learn how to identify a bad guy, height, weight, color of hair, skin, scars, tattoos, and what the bad guy wears, and how the bad guy speaks, if they smell a bad odor from their mouth, identify a vehicle the bad guy might drive.
15. Kids of all ages should know how to defend themselves in the home, and or public.
16. Parents should teach kids how to survive in a natural emergency, and have an escape route.
17. Kids should be taught bike safety, and laws when riding a bike. Helmets are law, and kids do have to wear helmets while riding a bike at all times. It is the parents responsibility to teach, and enforce the helmet laws. Parents set examples.
WEAR A HELMET WHILE RIDING YOUR BIKE ADULTS, AND KIDS.
Age has nothing to bike safety!!
Steps should be followed for missing kids.
First check, and search out the interior of the home: inside washing machines, and dryers, then check closets, in beds, and under the beds. Check all freezers, check crawl spaces, garbage cans, inside appliances, check all vehicles inside, and under, check trunks of the vehicle. Do a complete search of the property, and or where the child might hide when playing. Then check all neighbors in the area.
Then call '911' to report the child missing with what the child was wearing that day, how old, marks, scars, what medical problems, and all family members names, phone numbers, and when the child was last seen that day. Report any, and all strange activity, vehicles, people in the area during the day.
If shopping in a mall, or store report the missing child to staff members, or customer service, and manager of the store, and call '911' immediately. Do not leave the location of the store until law enforcement arrives, or the child is found.
DO NOT LEAVE LOADED, OR UNLOADED GUNS WHERE A CHILD CAN PICK THEM UP.
SECURE ALL WEAPONS, AND AMMO AROUND ALL CHILDREN NO MATTER WHAT AGE.
TEACH KIDS GUN SAFETY, AND THE PROPER USE OF A GUN. GUNS ARE FOR ADULTS!!
GUN EDUCATION & SAFETY AT ALL TIMES EVEN WITH ADULTS.
