How to avoid the loss of a child: 10 Important Tips
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Volunteers search and rescue team, "Liza Alert"
Engaged in the search for missing people.
1. Learn with your child the parents' room phones
This can be a room mom or dad, or preferably several close adults. Let the kid himself picking it on the phone, repeating with his grandparents. This must be done in the event that the child has their own phone or GPS clock. Let the kid knows that at any moment can call you and you will be in touch. Encourage him to tell you about all their movements.
2. Come up with a code word
Let it be the name of a favorite toy, or the name of a character from cartoon, A memorial to him a combination of numbers - that both of you will not forget. Explain to your child that this is your secret to him, and no stranger should know this secret word. It can be useful if the baby will stay at home alone, or someone of your friends have to take him out of the garden or school, or for some reason you or he call from an unknown number.
Password help both of you to make sure that you really communicate with each other.
3. Explain that an adult does not seek the assistance of someone else's child
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, which requires turn off the planned route, it does not fulfill that request must! Bring heavy bags can be someone else's grandmother to the entrance to the house, entrance, building, if they are on the way, but to go into in any case impossible, and with his road collapse - too. Then the grandmother to help neighbors.
If a stranger asks for help to someone and have to leave the route, even if the child does not do it, if there really is something wrong, adults will be able to solve the problem.
4. Convey that a stranger, no matter how attractive it may be, is still a stranger
Whatever kind and smiling nor would aunt, no matter what she suggested what would be neither requested - to go with it impossible. If the kid trying to lead somewhere, then he needs to shout loudly: "I do not know you!", "You're a stranger" - is sure to attract the attention of others.
If a stranger starts with the power to drag a child, he can bite, pinching and kicking. If someone from acquaintances but not close friends offers him a ride and came to pick him up from school, it is necessary to call parents and ask whether you can walk or drive with this person.
5. Ask your child to remain in place, if it was lost
The first rule is lost in a public place - to stay where you are! Go anywhere and with anyone you can not, even if unfamiliar adults promise that would be taken to his mother.
6. Tell me who to contact for help
In the city, you can ask for help to the police, the man who works in a public place, or a woman with a child. If something happened to us, we can turn to the salesgirl, the cashier, security guard; at the airport - to those who accept and register baggage of passengers, and so on. Explain to your child that these people can call their parents (because the child knows by heart, your mobile phone), but even with them in the city can not go anywhere!
7. Ask your child to get out at the first stop and wait for you, if it is left alone
Let remember the universal rule: if it is lost, it is worth waiting for, and, as you are looking for it. If you happen to have left him, he was just standing at the bus stop.
8. Properly gather in the woods
Teach your child what to dress in the forest you need a bright warm clothing and waterproof shoes. With a walk each participant, including children, to take water, food (chocolate bar and nuts) a whistle, a fully charged mobile phone (adults - more matches or lighters, and their daily tablets). Teach your child to focus on compass.
9. Tell your child what to do if it gets lost in the woods
Let remained at the site, calling the 112 saves phone charges. The child should respond when he hears his name, even if the voice of a stranger.
If in the woods stranger offers to bring them up, let them agree.
10. Act immediately if a child is missing
Teach your child, including by example, to tell you when it should come, and stick to the scheduled time. Linger - call. I am going to visit a friend - reported.
If your child went for a walk or to school, did not return at the appointed time and get through it, you can not start a half hour search. Call everyone who might know where he is: friends, classmates, class teacher, teachers, parents, friends, grandparents, ex-husband, and so on.
And call the police immediately. Rules three days does not exist! After submitting your application, please contact the police in "Liza Alert». Our hotline is available around the clock: 8 (800) 700-54-52.
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