Guard a Kid

Being a parent means having to wear a number of hats around our children.  We teach them about the great things in life, but we also need to protect them from the dangers.  The FBI reports that child goes missing every 40 seconds.  Many of the children reported missing are harmed or worse, never found.  Teaching our families about child safety can help deter situations from coming up.

Children need to learn about “stranger danger” at a young age.  They need to know who “good” strangers are:  police officers, firemen, teachers, store clerks, etc. that they can turn to if necessary.  These are the people they can go to if a parent is not around, and a “bad” stranger is making them feel uneasy.  Children should avoid walking anywhere along, and employ a buddy system.

A child should be taught their name, address, and phone number if any kind of an emergency arises.  Being able to remember little details about their surroundings is also an important detail to teach.

As a parent, we should prepare our children to make smart decisions about the people around them.  We can also prepare ourselves if something should happen by creating a child identification kit.  Should a child go missing, a child ID kit is one of the best ways to arm ourselves and provide immediate information to law officials.

The kit makes it easy to create 10 digital fingerprints of your child and store them on a CD-ROM.  This program will also allow recent photographs, descriptions of physical features such as height and weight, and any other pertinent information.  Should it need to be used, the information stored on this disk can be instantly sent electronically to any law enforcement agency.

Timing is critical when it comes to finding a missing child, and having a child ID kit will aid dramatically.  The kits are inexpensive and can be created in a short time.  It is important to update the pictures and descriptions at least yearly, since children’s appearances change so often.

Teaching child safety to your family will help prevent unfortunate incidents from happening.  However, we can never play it too safe, and making a child ID kit will give everyone a little more peace of mind.