Security for Children
- Learn about warning signs that your child might be involved with drugs or gangs – learn how you can help steer your child away.
- Spend time listening to your children or just being with them. Help them find positive, fun activities that they can take part in.
- Always know about your child’s friends, and know your child’s whereabouts, and activities. Know where your child is and when he or she will return.
- Be sure you and your child are clear on your rules and expectations for activities and behaviors – what’s OK and what’s not.
- Things Children Alone at Home Should Know
- What steps you want them to follow when they get home, such as phoning you at work or calling a neighbor or grandparent who is at home.
- Not to let strangers – adults or children – into the home for any reason.
- Not to tell telephone callers that they’re at home alone.
- That doors and windows must always be locked. Be sure your children know how to work them.
- Not to go into the home if a door is ajar or a window is broken, but to go to a neighbor’s or public phone and call the police.
- Your rules about acceptable activities when you are not home.
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