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Tips for
Kids | Tips
for Adults | Parties
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Treating | Yard
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Care
Anytime a child has an accident, it's tragic. The last thing that
you want to happen is for your child to be hurt on a holiday, it
would forever live in the minds of the child and the family.
There are many ways to keep your child safe at Halloween, when
they are more prone to accidents and injuries. The excitement of
children and adults at this time of year sometimes makes them forget
to be careful. Simple common sense can do a lot to stop any tragedies
from happening.
 Help
your child pick out or make a costume that will be safe. Make it
fire proof, the eye holes should be large enough for good peripheral
vision.
If you
set jack-o-lanterns on your porch with candles in them, make sure
that they are far enough out of the way so that kids costumes won't
accidentally be set on fire.
Make
sure that if your child is carrying a prop, such as a scythe, butcher
knife or a pitchfork, that the tips are smooth and flexible enough
to not cause injury if fallen on.
Kids
always want to help with the pumpkin carving. Small children shouldn't
be allowed to use a sharp knife to cut the top or the face. There
are many kits available that come with tiny saws that work better
then knives and are safer, although you can be cut by them as well.
It's best to let the kids clean out the pumpkin and draw a face
on it, which you can carve for them.
Treating
your kids to a spooky Halloween dinner will make them less likely
to eat the candy they collect before you have a chance to check
it for them.
Teaching
your kids basic everyday safety such as not getting into cars or
talking to strangers, watching both ways before crossing streets
and crossing when the lights tell you to, will help make them safer
when they are out Trick or Treating.
Make Halloween a fun, safe and happy time for your kids and they'll
carry on the tradition that you taught them to their own families
some day!
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