Home Fire Safety for Parents with Young Children

Being a parent is a stressful job whether you stay at home or work everyday. When you got to sleep at night the last thing you want to worry about is your children’s safety. You tuck them into bed and kiss them goodnight.

If you have toddlers at home, it is very important to teach them about fires as soon as they can understand. Sadly, children five-years-old and younger are twice as likely to die in a fire. You need to take your little precious ones to the local fire department and introduce them to firefighters fully dressed in the clothing they would wear to put out a fire. We all know we would stay in a burning house until death in order to save our children. What if you are injured in a fire, and cannot get back into your house to save your child? In the dark, a child will be scared and want to hide to get away. Many firefighters find bodies in closets or under beds of children who were hiding from the fire and smoke. Make sure you tell your children they cannot hide from a fire but escape. This child will not want to come out to a strange voice or a person who looks like a monster. It will save your child’s life if he/she knows what a firefighter is.

Many fires started at home are from preschoolers are from playing with matches or lighters. Children need to be taught what damage can be done by playing with these objects and stress they are for adults only. Parents make sure, especially at night, that these things are put away to where the kids cannot get them. My children will get up in the middle of the night and get into the things and sometimes I will not hear them. I try to make sure every night that I put everything up that will cause harm to them, were parents, not perfect.