What can you do to increase your children's safety?
Make sure your children know their address and phone number
- Your children should know their full name, address and phone number
Make sure your children can reach you by phone at all times
Never leave your children alone (in the car, in the house or anywhere else), even for a few seconds
- Make sure that your children always go from place to place with a friend, a family member or a trusted adult
Always know where your children are and who they are with
- Get to know your children's friends and their parents
Do not mark your children's names visibly on their possessions
Always let your children know who will be picking them up from school or daycare
- Choose a password to use if you send another adult to pick them up
- Always check the sitter's references before allowing them to babysit your children
Remind your children never to reveal personal information when they are surfing the Internet
- Put the computer in a place where it is accessible to the whole family
Remind your children of the safety rules every time they go out (for example, to daycare or to the mall)
- Always keep your children in sight in public places
- Help your children identify safe places to turn to for help
Make sure your children know the following motor vehicle safety rules:
- Never get into a car with a stranger, for any reason
- Never get close to the car when someone stops to ask for directions
- Never get into a car with someone you know without telling your parents first
- Scream and run if a stranger tries to drag you into a car. Then memorize and write down the licence plate and report the incident to your parents, a teacher or a Police Officer
- If a friend gets into a stranger's car, write down the licence plate and call their parents, a teacher or 911 immediately
Tell your children that if they need help, they should tell the first person of authority they see (Police Officer, crossing guard, school staff member, letter carrier, taxi driver)
- They can also go into a business (a corner store, for example) and tell the cashier
- They can go to a neighbour or friend's house
- They can go to a house with a Parents-Secours
Information
For further information, please consult the website of our partner, the Missing Children's Network.