Road Safety

Road safety is preventing me from allowing my children to run off to the park next to the local primary school  themselves. It's not that far - being only a 5 minute walk from the house. My wife has let them run there themselves a couple of days ago. Yesterday however I decided to walk with them and ascertain their road safety awareness. Will8 was on his scooter and Beth5 was on her bike.

Of they went, and I managed a quick trot to keep up. Wills was way ahead, looking left and right appropriately, and crossing safety. Beth was also looking left and right, and was crossing more or less appropriately. But she lacked confidence, and when there was an approaching car, she didn't know exactly where to go - sometimes her indecision forced her to come back to the same side of the road but at a different point to where she started.

This would be more or less fine if it weren't for curbs and intersections - these are areas of concern despite my suburb being a leafy and ripe for pedestrian traffic. Unfortunately, her lack of road safety confidence makes me believe that she's not yet ready to go to the park with her brother - especially if he's not guiding her every step of the way.

Links

• Road Safety for Parents
• Road Safety for Children
• Car Safety Seats
• Traffic Safety for Children Taking Public Transport
• Child Car Safety
• Child Car Safety Around the Car
• Playground Safety

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