Video: How to Plan a Route for Trick or Treaters

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Trick or Treating safety is important on Halloween night. Learn how to plan your time and route for trick or treating in this free child safety video from our safe Halloween expert.

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I'm here today to talk about trick or treating safety. There are several things you are going to want to do to make sure you have a very safe Halloween before you even leave the door. The first thing you're going to do is to make sure and plan your route out in advance. It's not a good idea just to wonder out without any clear endpoints for trick or treating. You're going to have a very excitable child with you, they're not going to want to stop even when it gets past midnight. So an easy way to do this is to walk around in your neighborhood in advance and come up with a map. Have a map where you have a starting point and an endpoint and roughly how much time it's going to take. This should include what streets you feel comfortable walking with your child on and any areas you may want to avoid, being industrial areas, areas that may not have a lot of lighting, etc. It's important if you can, it's even better to walk this route during the day, at least once before hand. Hopefully you're already walking in your neighborhood and you already have a route in mind and you won't have to go through this exercise or it'll be less important. But it is a good idea to keep your geography straight before you head out with the little ones trick or treating.

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How to Plan a Route for Trick or Treaters

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