Home Safety For Kids

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A child’s home is where they will spend much of their lives. It’s where they’ll eat, sleep, play, and where they’ll hopefully grow into a healthy adult. It’s also where most childhood injuries take place. This means that parents reap the largest benefit to their child’s welfare by focusing on child safety in the home.  The information and resources contained in this area will discuss everything you need to know about home safety for kids.

Every year across the United States, children are sent to the emergency room due to home accidents, and several thousand kids will die from these injuries. Your child is many thousands of times more likely to be harmed by the things inside your house than they are to be injured by community predators. In fact, to put things in perspective, your television in and of itself is at least 40 times more likely to kill your child than any registered sex offenders in the neighborhood. Yet in spite of these basic facts, many parents spend more time worrying about unlikely dangers outside the home while often neglecting hazards that exist right under their own roof.

How to Keep Your Child Safe in the Home

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Home Safety Books & Resources for Kids

 What Bigger Kids Can Do printable book

This book teaches your older children how to keep their younger siblings safe from the dangers in and around your home. Recommended for kids ages 5 to 11.

 

Is This A Toy  eBook
A simple children’s eBook that teaches kids about dangerous items they shouldn’t touch. Recommended for kids ages 3 to 7. Free to read online

 

Coloring sheets that teach kids safety in the home:

 

Safety in the home worksheets for kids

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Home Safety Activities for Kids


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