How to avoid missing your child: 10 important tips

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Each parent should tell their child about these rules of conduct.

1. Learn parent phone numbers with your child

This can be the number of mom or dad, or preferably several close adults. Let the kid dial it himself on the phone, repeat it with his grandparents. This must be done even if the child has his own phone or watch with GPS. Let the baby know that he can call you at any time and you will be in touch. Train him to inform you about all his movements.

2. Come up with a code word together

Let it be the name of your favorite toy or the name of a cartoon character, a memorable combination of numbers that you both will not forget. Explain to your child that this is your secret with him and that no stranger should know this secret word. It can be useful if the baby is left at home alone, or someone from your friends has to pick him up from kindergarten or school, or for some reason you or he is calling from an unfamiliar number.

The password will help both of you make sure you are actually communicating with each other.

3. Explain that an adult will not ask someone else's child for help

We are taught from childhood to help grandparents. And it is right. But explain to your child that if any unfamiliar adult asks for help that requires you to turn off the planned route, then he should not comply with this request! You can bring heavy bags to someone else's grandmother to the entrance to the house, entrance, building, if they are on the way, but in no case can you go inside and turn off your road - too. Next, the neighbors will help the grandmother.

If a stranger asks to help someone and you need to leave the route, let the child not do this: if something really happened there, adults will be able to solve the problem on their own.

4. Communicate that a stranger, no matter how attractive, is still a stranger

No matter how kind and smiling the aunt is, no matter what she offers, no matter what she asks, you cannot leave with her. If they are trying to take the kid somewhere, then he needs to shout loudly: “I don’t know you!”, “You are a stranger!” - it will definitely attract the attention of others.

If a stranger begins to drag the child with force, he can bite, pinch and kick. If someone from friends, but not close people, offers him a ride or came to pick him up from school, you should definitely call your parents and ask if you can go or go with this person.

5. Ask your child to stay put if he gets lost

The first rule of being lost in a public place is to stay where you stand! You cannot leave anywhere and with anyone, even if unfamiliar adults promise that they will take you to your mother.

6. Tell who you can contact for help

In the city, you can ask for help from a policeman, a person who works in a public place, or a woman with a child. If something happened in the store, you can contact the saleswoman, cashier, security guard; at the airport - to those who accept baggage and check in passengers, and so on. Explain to the kid that these people can call their parents (after all, the child knows your mobile phone by heart), but even with them you cannot go anywhere in the city!

7. Ask your child to get off at the first stop and wait for you if he left alone

Let him remember the universal rule: if he is lost, then he stands and waits, and you are looking for him. If you accidentally leave him, he just stands at the bus stop.

8. Get right into the forest

Teach your child to dress in the forest in bright warm clothes and waterproof shoes. Each participant in the walk, including children, should take water, food (chocolate bar, nuts), a whistle, a fully charged mobile phone (adults - more matches or lighters and their daily tablets). Teach your child to navigate using the compass.

9. Tell your child what to do if he gets lost in the forest

Let him stay where he is, call 112, save the phone charge. The child should respond when he hears his name, even if the voice is unfamiliar.

If a stranger offers to take him out in the forest, let him agree.

10. Act immediately if the child is missing

Teach your child, including by example, to tell you when he should come and stick to the appointed time. If you are late - call. If you are going to visit a friend, let me know.

If your child went for a walk or to school, did not return at the appointed time and you cannot call him, start the search in half an hour. Call everyone who might know where he is: friends, classmates, class teacher, teachers, parents of friends, grandmothers, ex-husband, and so on.

And call the police right away. The three-day rule does not exist! After filing a complaint with the police, contact "". Our hotline works around the clock: 8 (800) 700-54-52.