safety programs at school?

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  • willysmama
  on Nov. 1, 2009 at 7:23 PM

• My son's school does fire safety. I have no clue how they teach them. And they do bike safety again no clue how they teach them. but the fire dept comes out to his school they bring a truck and they do fire drills at school.

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  • mamatware
  on Nov. 2, 2009 at 9:15 AM

•  One thing you can do is get luggage tags, and put a card in them that says "If you find me call my mom at 123-4567."

  

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  • singlemomme2jj
  on Nov. 2, 2009 at 10:12 AM

• My 4 year old son wandered off at the 4th of July parade this summer.  Three adults sitting there with a few kids and not one of us noticed he'd wandered off, in search of his teenage sister who'd gone to get ice cream.  Those were the five most terrifying minutes of my life.  My son fears strangers, too, and most people can't understand his words.  After that day (he was always one to stay close before), I put a sticker on the inside of his shirt or his coat with his name, my name, and my cell number.  One time, I just wrote our cell on the back of his hand, as I'd forgotten the stickers.  I show him where it is and have explained how to walk into a business and find someone with a tag on their shirt and show them the sticker.  I didn't want his name on the outside for all to see as that can attract creeps.  Hopefully, we'll never need to practice it beyond that. 

  If you want this practiced at school, have them write it into his IEP.  Remember, you have input into your child's learning goals at school, and if you want personal safety in there, make sure you voice that at the IEP meeting.  Other than that, I doubt the schools are doing much in that area any more, as we're all focused on the standards and achieving success on state assessments (I teach 4th grade).  If they do, it's a short term or one shot deal, and our kids with delays probably need a bit more repetition to get the ideas to stick.

  Contact your local police department to see if they have any programs available, or could recommend something.

  Tammy
  

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  • Stephensmom1214
  on Nov. 2, 2009 at 2:01 PM

• I know it's not a school program, but these would be good when you are out or in large crowds...

  http://www.safetytat.com/

  
  www.pattysprettythings.etsy.com
  www.tinyheine.blogspot.com

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  • KristineMP
  on Nov. 2, 2009 at 2:35 PM

• I think repetition is definitely necessary for our special needs kiddos, thanks for all the advice.

  And the safetytats are a WONDERFUL idea! I will order some and use them when we have outings in crowded places, like our trip to Disney this year.
  

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  • suz123
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 6:41 PM

• I went to Germany last summer with my three kids and we had gone to a theme park, not only could he not say my borthers name they can't speak german.  I insisted to my brother that we put his cell number on their hands. 

  But as for a program for our kids I think there is a tracking device that is like a gps system that can track them.  Also your cell phone works as one as well.  But I am not a 100% certain but I think I saw the gps system by Disney?  You would have to look into it.  If I remember correctly it looks like a watch on the child. 

  Good luck.  My son is 13 now and although can wonder off he know now how to call our cells.

   

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