How to be Safe when Reading

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to talk to you about understanding the nature of reading. Reading safety. Safety in reading. What's that all about? You have a lovely little cookbook, a berry yummy cookbook, it looks like a lot of fun, it should be no problem, we can just open the book and your child and yourself can go into the cookbook and start cooking. Or you may have a manual on how to plant a tomato plant and you and your child can interact with that. Beware, be careful, beware. In any cookbooks, no matter what they are, make sure you start teaching your child that you're never mentioning a stove or boiling or a pan or cooking because they will think that maybe when you're not around, they're going to surprise mommy and they're going to make your favorite dish and they may decide to turn the stove on and set a fire. When you're outside and you're teaching a child how to garden or something to use shears, anything that you take for granted, they may decide, oh, I can cut the lawn too, even if daddy isn't here, and grab a pair of scissors. Be very very cautious. Reading is wonderful. Cook books are wonderful, but it's up to you as the parent to choose and to really think, anything you may be showing them, in their minds, they'd be thinking they're doing something wonderful for you. So start with sandwiches and even if you use sandwiches, where's the safety in that? What do you need to make a sandwich, even a simple peanut butter and jelly? A knife. So leave those kind of things out and when you start showing them any type of cooking or menus or anything to do with the outside, keep in the back of your mind, safety, safety, safety first, for your precious child. And that is safety in reading."