It’s important to educate children, especially as they head back to school, about being street smart.
Summers around here go really fast. Too fast and, unfortunately, it’s almost time to return to the school routine. So it’s probably time to talk about keeping kids safe around our roads as the fall is nearly upon us.
Navigating a streetscape is not intuitive for children. They have the burning desire to run free, lost in the joy of their own world. At the same time, they have not gained an awareness of problems approaching them from multiple directions. It’s also important to understand is what all the signal lights mean. It’s an easy game that can be learned quickly as kids have an innate fascination with colours and lights. Teach them the meaning of green, yellow and red lights, along with the importance of pedestrian signals.
There are also some things we don’t often think about when keeping our kids safe around the road, like not sticking heads or arms out the car window. There’s the chance of catching a pole or another vehicle as they pass by but also a good chance of taking a piece of road debris or an insect right in the face at 50 km/h or faster.
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