How to Keep Your Kids Street Safe

Take steps to help ensure the safety of your children. These suggestions follow the recommendations of the FBI and the National Crime Prevention Council.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Telephones

1. Talk to your children about basic safety, such as avoiding drugs, violence and strangers.

2. Send your school a list of people to whom your children can be released in an emergency situation.

3. Get involved in a neighborhood Block Parent program, or appoint several trusted neighbors who can reach you and to whom your children can go in an emergency if you are away.

4. Get involved in a Neighborhood Watch program.

5. Offer to provide sanctuary to your neighbor's children and to contact them in an emergency if they are away.

6. Report suspicious characters loitering in areas where children play to the police, along with license plate numbers and character descriptions.

[Coach4U]

on 8/11/2009 Thanks for the information about how to keep your kids street safe.

[niknik2008]

on 8/3/2009 Great Info! 5*

[grimsleygl]

on 7/14/2009 Thanks for posting this. Our children are too precious not to take these extra precautions for safety.

[georgiarealtor]

on 6/30/2009 Great article! I look forward to reading more of your articles.

[betterbody]

on 6/26/2009 Great 5* ideas we should all think about.