How to Keep Your Kids Street Safe

By eHow Parenting Editor

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

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

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Step1

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

Step2

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

Step3

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.

Step4

Get involved in a Neighborhood Watch program.

Step5

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

Step6

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

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on 11/22/2005 Have your child carry a form of identification with him whenever he goes out on his own. Anything from an official ID card to a slip of paper with his name and your phone number on it will do. A child on a bicycle was hit by a car in my neighborhood recently, and because he had no ID on him it took the police hours to figure out who he was and contact his parents.

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