Guard a Kid

As the holiday season approaches it is important to keep your children safe.  The holidays are fun, festive and a prime season for child predators to be on the lookout for opportunities.  It takes only a few seconds for you to become distracted in a mall or other public space and for your child to be abducted.

Parents should be on the ready.  Child identification kits can help keep your child safe.  Being able to provide updated photograph and other vital statistics immediately to law enforcement and safety officials can help bring your child back quickly and safely.

When a child goes missing it is natural for the parent to panic and be unable to adequately describe their child and provide a recent photograph.  Ask yourself right now, when you are not in a panic mode how tall your child is, how much do they weigh and how accurately can you describe them.  Most parents can only give approximate height and weight information and may struggle to provide identifying characteristics, especially if they are panicked.

The Smart ID Stick is a great option for parent, especially if you have multiple children.  This one stick can contain all of the information for your child or children and be immediately handed to law enforcement in case of emergency.

Many of our franchisees also offer child identification events  and fundraisers to help all children get much needed child identification kits.  Call us to learn more or find a franchise by clicking HERE.

How often should you update your child’s identification kit?  This is  a question we are asked often.  At the very least you want to update it every year.  Think about how much your child grows in a year and how different they look.

Child identification kits include the child’s photograph, fingerprints, height and weight among other information.  Within the course of a year your child’s height and weight will change dramatically.  Most parents feel confident that they can estimate that information, however, even in relaxed situations parents are often well-off in their estimates.

At a recent child identification event in Florida, one of our franchisees compared the height and weight information provided by parents to the actual information (height and weight measurements are taken at child identification kit events).  The franchisee reported that over 70% of the parents that filled in that information provided incorrect information.  This, of course, does not make them bad parents, it simply illustrates the fact that it is very difficult to estimate that information.

In a case of an emergency, parents will be stressed and will be even less likely to have accurate information on hand.  An updated child identification kit can provide the details needed quickly and efficiently.

Make sure your child identification kit is updated every 6 or 12 months.