Leaving your kids home alone? City of Hamilton offering online safety training
Published July 27, 2020 at 2:35 pm
Is your child old enough to stay home alone?
The City of Hamilton, in partnership with SOS4Kids, is offering an online safety training program for children aged 9 to 12.
Is your child old enough to stay home alone?
The City of Hamilton, in partnership with SOS4Kids, is offering an online safety training program for children aged 9 to 12.
According to the city’s website, the program is “designed with families in mind to help prepare children to be responsible and care for themselves safely in the exciting and sometimes scary event of leaving them without adult supervision”.
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For $23 (plus tax), children will receive training in the following areas:
- Street smarts and rules of the road
- People safety; including tricky people, identifying inappropriate behaviours or tricks used by predators, avoiding strangers, and getting help from a trusted adult
- Online and internet safety
- At home safety for kids including safe snacking and safe activities
- Fire safety
- Accident prevention and removing risks and hazards
- Basic First Aid
“The course encourages families to communicate in order to gain an understanding of each other’s concerns, needs, responsibilities, rules and expectations,” reads the City of Hamilton website.
The program uses digital and traditional gaming techniques to provide a fun learning environment. It can be completed anytime within 21 days after the program is purchased and activated.
Find it here: https://www.hamilton.ca/recreation/home-alone-safety-kids
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