I'm making a picture book for children on a safety topic such as like fire safety or wearing a helmet when bike riding (but I don't want to write about these). What is another issue with childhood safety that I can make? I want there to be room for creativity and easy to write about but I can't think of anything!I was thinking of doing a spinoff of goldilocks, but rejected the idea. Then i was gonna do a story about a teenager who never did the safe thing and got punished for it, but i dont like that idea either. whats a good safety issue?
Oh god, I'm a terrible parent. We have a fire alarm and a fire escape off our balcony in our master bedroom and 3 other exits to the house, but I've never actually gone over it with my children. Actually only my daughter as she's 3 and my youngest is 5 months I feel like such a piece now :S I'll have to figure something out
another public service announcement from pdooma. ;-) kidding. actually i think it's good you do it. yes, they would. i believe we only actually practiced once but we discuss it periodically, particularly every time the fire alarm starts beeping for us to change the batteries. but i do have some concerns they might not hear the alarm. we once had the carbon monoxide detector go off, which is even louder (false alarm) and i was the only one who woke up. how anybody could sleep through that noise is a mystery to me. *fire away on those, too. i enjoy your questions as strongly as i disagree with some of your opinions, (which is saying something). no hostility intended. really. hope it didn't read that way.
Good luck with finding that out. They aren't making any more movies based on The Next Generation.
Unfortunately, she's heard ours go off a few times when I was cooking (and I didn't even burn the food, it was stuff that had spilled in the burner or the oven). She's seen me fan the area around the smoke alarm with a towel and open the door. Wow, probably not what I want her to think is the appropriate response in general. I think I'll talk to her about it. She has slept through the one in the kitchen going off while she was upstairs in bed. I hope the one near the bottom of the steps would wake her, but I don't know. We have never practiced a fire escape plan and I do keep meaning to get one of those ladders for getting out of a 2nd story. **Once last year I woke up because of smoke hurting my throat. My daughter's dad was attempting to slow cook some kind of meat on the stove and fell asleep! She and I were in the bedroom with the door closed so I was terrified how bad it must've been for the smoke in there to wake me. I touched the door and it wasn't hot, so I opened it and tons of smoke wafted in. I closed it and woke him (with a blow to the headJUST KIDDING, but I wanted to) and frantically tried to clear the smoke out. The worst, most disturbing part is that the smoke alarm never went off. I was all kinds of pissed about that. So I thank you for your PSA on the subject cause people do need to think about it! :D
I would like to think he knows. Our smoke alarm is wired into the building electrics. So you can never switch it off. I'm really paranoid about fires in the home and always close all the doors at night and double check the cooker. I have pictures of what to do and keep a little bag by the door just incase. I remember last year at Christmas i left the fairy lights on one morning and had horrible images of my place being on fire. It really does freak me out.
