I have a 4yr old DS. Looking for advice or aids (books, computer games/programs and educational cartoons all work well for him) on teaching mainly road safety, but also fire safety/level crossings etc. He knows about dialling 999. For other safety I'm mainly relying on practical experience, but the road safety is driving me mad.
Water safety and climbing/the great outdoors have gone fine, he's fairly sensible, because we can let him jump into a lake or have a small fall and find out its a bad idea. Clearly I can't let him have a minor road traffic accident although believe me when I say it is getting tempting!!! He is wilfully stupid around roads if he's in the mood to be, he'll start dancing and then dance into the road when there's a car coming, run across without looking when he knows he shouldn't. Calm explaining and shouting are equally unlikely to have effect. I think it's just one of those things where because he can't understand fully the danger for himself, he thinks we're exaggerating or making it up. Or as he really likes cars he just thinks they can never hurt him. Similar silliness in car parks. I don't want to give him nightmares, but I do want the lesson to sink in before he kills himself.
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Teaching Road Safety
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Nigglenaggle · 01/04/2016 20:57
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