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Halloween Safety Tips

January 25th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

Halloween, though undoubtedly an occasion for fun, is also a time when accidents could occur. When even adults, let alone children, are excited, they tend to be less careful and allow mistakes to happen.

Simple common sense ideas could prevent your child or even yourself from being hurt or injured and avert a tragedy. Here’s a list of Halloween Safety Tips recommended by the Los Angeles Fire Department.

BEFORE HALLOWEEN:

• Plan costumes that are bright and reflective. Make sure that shoes fit well and that costumes are short enough to prevent tripping, entanglement or contact with flame.

• Consider adding reflective tape or striping to costumes and trick-or-treat bags for greater visibility.

• Secure emergency identification (name, address, phone number) discreetly within Halloween attire or on a bracelet.

• Because a mask can limit or block eyesight, consider non-toxic and hypoallergenic makeup or a decorative hat as a safe alternative.

• When shopping for costumes, wigs and accessories, purchase only those with a label indicating they are flame resistant.

• Think twice before using simulated knives, guns or swords. If such props must be used, be certain they do not appear authentic and are soft and flexible to prevent injury.

• Obtain flashlights with fresh batteries for all children and their escorts.

• Plan ahead to use only battery powered lanterns or chemical lightsticks in place of candles in decorations and costumes.

• This is also a great time to buy fresh batteries for your home Smoke Alarms.

• Teach children their home phone number and to how call 9-1-1 (or their local emergency number) if they have an emergency or become lost. Remind them that 9-1-1 can be dialed free from any phone.

• Review with your children the principle of “Stop-Drop-Roll,” should their clothes catch fire.

• Openly discuss appropriate and inappropriate behavior at Halloween time.

• Consider purchasing individually packaged healthy food alternatives (or safe non-food treats) for those who visit your home.

• Take extra effort to eliminate tripping hazards on your porch and walkway. Check around your property for flower pots, low tree limbs, support wires or garden hoses that may prove hazardous to young children rushing from house to house.

• Learn or review CPR skills to aid someone who is choking or having a heart attack.

• Consider safe party guidelines when hosting an Adult or Office Party.

FUN ALTERNATIVES:

• Find a special event or start one in your own neighborhood.

• Community Centers, Shopping Malls and Houses of Worship may have organized festivities.

• Share the fun by arranging a visit to a Retirement Home or Senior Center.

• Create an alliance with College Fraternities, Sororities or Service Clubs for children’s face painting or a carnival.

BEFORE NIGHTFALL ON HALLOWEEN:

• A good meal prior to parties and trick-or-treating will discourage youngsters from filling up on Halloween treats.

• Consider fire safety when decorating. Do not overload electrical outlets with holiday lighting or special effects, and do not block exit doors.

• While children can help with the fun of designing a Jack O’ Lantern, leave the carving to adults.

• Always keep Jack O’ Lanterns and hot electric lamps far away from drapes, decorations, flammable materials or areas where children and pets will be standing or walking.

• Plan and review with your children the route and behavior which is acceptable to you.

• Do not permit children to bicycle, roller-blade or skateboard.

• Agree on a specific time when revelers must return home.

• Along with flashlights for all, older children and escorts should wear a wristwatch and carry coins for non-emergency phone calls.

• Confine, segregate or otherwise prepare household pets for an evening of frightful sights and sounds. Be sure that all dogs and cats are wearing collars and proper identification tags. Consult your veterinarian for further advice.

• Remind all household drivers to remain cautious and drive slowly throughout the community.

• Adult partygoers should establish and reward a designated driver.

WHEN TRICK-OR-TREATING:

• A Parent or responsible Adult should always accompany young children on their neighborhood rounds.

• Remind Trick-or-Treaters:

• By using a flashlight, they can see and be seen by others.

• Stay in a group, walk slowly and communicate where you are going.

• Only trick-or-treat in well known neighborhoods at homes that have a porch light on.

• Remain on well-lit streets and always use the sidewalk.

• If no sidewalk is available, walk at the farthest edge of the roadway facing traffic.

• Never cut across yards or use alleys.

• Never enter a stranger’s home or car for a treat.

• Obey all traffic and pedestrian regulations.

• Always walk. Never run across a street.

• Only cross the street as a group in established crosswalks (as recognized by local custom).

• Remove any mask or item that will limit eyesight before crossing a street, driveway or alley.

• Don’t assume the right of way. Motorists may have trouble seeing Trick-or-Treaters. Just because one car stops, doesn’t mean others will.

• Never consume unwrapped food items or open beverages that may be offered.

• No treats are to be eaten until they are thoroughly checked by an Adult at home.

• Law Enforcement authorities should be notified immediately of any suspicious or unlawful activity.

AFTER TRICK-OR-TREATING:

• Wait until children are home to sort and check treats. Though tampering is rare, a responsible Adult should closely examine all treats and throw away any spoiled, unwrapped or suspicious items.

• Try to apportion treats for the days following Halloween.

• Although sharing is encouraged, make sure items that can cause choking (such as hard candies), are given only to those of an appropriate age.

Halloween for Kids and Dads

Halloween’s just around the corner. And while your kids are all set to have a blast, they will appreciate your effort and participation in making it a memorable day for them. Of course, some activities are traditionally dad’s domain. A fun excursion for any family is an annual trip to pick out a pumpkin, though sometimes, just picking one up at the grocery store is a good plan if you only have time to do one thing. For a tongue-in-cheek, but accurate primer on carving, go to carving your jack o’ lantern.

For patterns and carving tips, check out jack-o-lantern.com, which has downloadable PDF pattern for cutting out unique pumpkins.

While commercial costumes are always an option, it’s not difficult to create spooky costumes for your kids when they go ‘Trick or Treating.’ Helping them put together costumes from material readily available at home will be a fun exercise in creativity for them that will also save you a few good dollars. Here are some amazingly simple Halloween costume ideas that you could use or innovate upon.

When it comes to dads and their kids, often the simplest activities give the most joy. Curve a pumpkin together during Halloween is a fun activity that stimulates kids’ creative faculties. Find more about Halloween safety tips on Halloween festival.

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On the Weariness of Halloween

January 25th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

Staying in for Halloween but don’t want to waste it away? Well, if there aren’t any parties to go to, trick-or-treaters to treat (or scare), or if you just plain don’t want to get up off that couch, then you may as well make it into a Halloween-themed evening. No trouble there. Just rent the right movies and invite the right people. Costumes optional. And for those still dissuaded to participate in this supernatural time of the year (or for those who don’t believe in the supernatural), read onward for several suggestions and insight.

Halloween bears its origin from the Irish and Scottish countries. Since then varieties of it have cropped up, nonetheless all of them with similar components: masks, costumes, parties, and the presence of mortality and death. The latter quality is what makes Halloween stand out from the other national American holidays: death. It is only appropriate, then, to disseminate it into all the qualities that make up our notions of Halloween. In other words, scare the living daylights out of anyone; but don’t forget to scare yourself. That’s the real treat of Halloween.

Of course, most movies can only go so far in scaring a person. (And in all honesty, the majority of movies can only manage to startle a person; all while instilling very little actual fear). As any person would know by know, the joy of watching a horror movie is to watch it with others. Doing so might pad out the scare-factor, but boy does it make the movie more enjoyable.

The point of Halloween to exist in the modern world is to provide faux scares. That and, well, at the opinion of this writer, Halloween is a solid gold harvest for the corporations. Staying home without any legitimate fears, or even a sense of greater wonder, is the ultimate crime on Halloween night; the one and only legitimate and legally organized night to instill fear in others’ hearts. The best thing to do, inside the confines of your own home is to dress up as a creature, lie in wait behind a door, and scare family members.

Okay. Fine. So I’m all out of ideas to convince you to revel in Halloween night. You’re right then, it really isn’t worth it to go out and stay out on Halloween. They say the candied apples strangers throw into the kids’ bags are booby trapped with razors and pins. They say that vandalism goes up for one night; drunkenness, disorderliness, and delinquency…it all goes up. Most importantly, they say that ghosts and evil spirits rise from their graves and enter the physical world of the living, and that they torment any soul who doesn’t wear a mask (a ward to keep spirits at bay, just so you know).

And so, for those of you who do not intend to celebrate Halloween at all, who plan to stay inside on the one night evil spirits arise to wreck havoc, please, at my own superstitious beliefs…at least wear a mask.

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Samurai Costumes For Halloween

January 19th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

The “trick or treat” day is one fun filled day wherein we can get total strangers to give us candy or money. The sheer amount of fun and frolic on that day is one unforgettable experience.

One of the costumes which is well suited to emphasize the “trick” aspect would be the Samurai costume. After all, what better costume than that of a warrior to get the message home and that too a traditionally feared warrior?

The ability to stick out of the crowd is what can make a difference in getting the best treat, and one excellent option can be the samurai dress, which not only is different compared to the regular devils, or elves or spooky creatures, but also can emphasize that it is better to go for the treat option.

Considering that Halloween falls during the winter season, it is best to choose dress material that is a bit thick to protect from the cold.

There are a variety of Samurai costumes to choose from depending on what you would like to portray.

The basic dress is the satin Kimono which traditionally is made of two layers. The kimono can have Japanese figures painted on it or even a dragon spewing fire.

For children maybe a suitable jacket with matching elastic pants and drawings would be more suitable.

On this the Happi coat or the vest with shimmering colors of green or orange will go on to add an effect of glamour and power. The effects can be heightened by the use of different colors along the edges.

The next would be the sash, in a dual color for example Purple and red. Of course the choice can be best left to individual tastes.

Depending on the preference the head piece or cap can be combined with a face scarf to highlight the masked effect. Where the person prefers to have the face exposed, a fancy long and drooping moustache can give a weird effect to the Warrior image. One can also choose to wear a mask in order to make the intire costume a bit more realistic. Beard can be painted directly on the skin if you do not have a mask.

The Wig with pony tail is a necessary accessory. The pony tail can either be bunched up or knotted with a rope and stick on the top or can be left to hang loosely behind. Either way the effects can be enhanced by coloring the wig,

The warrior sword with sheath hanging on the back side. The ultimate fear factor! Of course the sword will be made of card! Such samurai swords can often times be bought in regular toy stores and halloween shops. Otherwise do a quick search online and you will have no troubles finding one. Most often, however, samurai costumes are bought as a set with the sword included.

Rounding off the costume would be the socks and the sandals! I guess it will only be treating; no one would dare to go for a trick!

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How to keep your kids safe on Halloween

January 18th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

While Halloween is a fun family tradition in America, it is also one of the most deadly and dangerous. Daunting Halloween injury statistics should pose the real fright to parents on Halloween. Statistically, Halloween usually competes 1-2-3 with Fourth of July and New Years Eve for the most injuries and deaths. Your job as a parent is to try and keep your kids as safe as possible. Most parents know about candy tampering. However, many parents don’t realize burns, pedestrian injuries and falls account for the majority of the injuries on Halloween. Here is how to make sure that your kids don’t become accident statistics.

A Halloween ounce of prevention…

The excitement of children and adults at this time of year sometimes makes them forget to be careful. Many of the risks children face can be avoided if parents follow simple safety tips and talk to their children about safety before they go trick-or-treating. Plan and review with your children the acceptable route and behavior. A responsible adult should always be with children while trick-or-treating.

Carving the pumpkin

Kids always want to help with the pumpkin carving. Here are pumpkin safety tips.

1. Don’t allow small children to use a sharp knife to cut the top or the face.
2. Let kids clean out the pumpkin and draw a face on pumpkin.
3. Don’t place candles in pumpkins if young children will be near the pumpkins.

Costume safety: Avoiding Dangerous Halloween Costumes

Every Halloween children are injured or killed due to dangerous Halloween costumes. Here are some Halloween costume safety tips:

1. Choose costumes that are light and bright enough to be visible to motorists.
2. Decorate costumes and treat bags with reflective tape.

3. Costumes should be short enough to prevent children from tripping.
4. Cosmetics and face paints are better than a loose-fitting mask that might restrict breathing or obscure vision.
5. Knives, swords and similar costume accessories should short with flexible and soft material. Be sure the tips are smooth and flexible enough to not cause injury if fallen on.
6. High heels are not a good idea. Children should wear well-fitting, sturdy shoes.
7. Avoid costumes with big, baggy sleeves or billowing skirts.
8. Securely tie hats and scarfs to prevent them from slipping over children’s eyes.

Don’t become a Halloween pedestrian statistic

Halloween consistently ranks as one of the most deadly days of the year for pedestrians. Here is how to avoid being run over by a car on Halloween:

1. Hold a flashlight while trick-or-treating to help maximize visibility.
2. All children should have their own flash light, with fresh batteries.
3. Be sure to remind children to look both ways before crossing the street.
4. Walk only on established sidewalks or stay as close as possible to the shoulder of the road. That way you can see approaching cars, and they have a better chance of seeing you.
5. If children are walking in a group, walk single-file.

6. Don’t allow children to skateboard, roller-blade or bicycle while trick-o-treating.
7. Make sure kids remove any mask or costume that will obscure vision before crossing a street, driveway or alley.
8. Remind children not to assume the right of way. Drivers have difficulty seeing trick-or-treaters.
9. Just because one car stops, doesn’t mean other cars will. Be a defensive pedestrian.
10. Don’t allow children to run from house to house.
11. Avoid back-over accidents by always staying in clear view of a driver and never behind a vehicle.
12. Never allow children to dart from behind a parked car to cross the street. Drivers may not see your children

Halloween Fire Safety

Fires and burns are the third leading cause of injury related death among children. Take the following safety precautions:

1. When purchasing a costume, masks, beards, and wigs, look for the label “Flame Resistant.” While this label does not mean these Halloween costume and accessories won’t catch fire, it means the items will resist burning and should extinguish quickly once removed from the ignition source.
2. Minimize the risk of contact with candles or other sources of ignition, and avoid costumes made with flimsy materials and outfits with big, baggy sleeves or billowing skirts.
3. Don’t allow children to walk near lit candles or flame.
4. Use only battery powered lanterns or chemical lightsticks.
5. Keep candles, lit jack-o-lanterns, matches and lighters out of children’s reach.
6. Review with your children the principle of “Stop-Drop-Roll”, should their clothes catch on fire.

Avoiding Halloween Falls

Cumbersome costumes and masks make walking through dark neighborhood streets dangerous for children. Here is how to avoid Halloween fall injuries to children:

1. Wear well-fitting masks, costumes, and shoes to avoid blocked vision, trips, and falls.
2. Costumes should be short enough to prevent children from tripping and falling.
3. Eye holes should be large enough for good peripheral vision.
4. Flashlights help trick-or-treaters see where they are walking to prevent falls.
5. Don’t allow children to walk across lawns with Halloween decorations or other hazards.

Keep your kid from being “kidnapped”: Halloween Safety

Child abduction is never a joking matter. Here are tips to keeping kids safe:

1. Avoid trick-or-treating alone. Walk in groups or with a trusted adult.
2. Children should go only to homes where the residents are known and have outside lights on as a sign of welcome.
3. Don’t allow children to get into cars or talk to strangers.
4. Securely place emergency identification (name, address, phone number) within children’s Halloween attire or on a bracelet.
5. Be sure to agree on a specific time when everyone must return home.
6. Accompany younger children to the door of every home they approach
7. Teach children if anyone tries to grab them to make a scene; loudly yell this person is not my father/mother; and make every effort to get away by kicking, screaming, biting and resisting.

Inspecting the Halloween loot: tampering and choking hazards

Though tampering is rare, a responsible adult should closely examine all treats and throw away any spoiled, unwrapped or suspicious items.
1. No treats are to be eaten until they are thoroughly checked by an adult at home.
2. Examine all treats for choking hazards and tampering before eating them.
3. Eat only factory-wrapped treats.
4. Avoid eating homemade treats unless you know the cook well.

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Five Important things in order to Make Your Kids Safe This Halloween

January 17th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

Halloween is the festival of the year where many young parents had a nerve-racking time. Dressing the children up in masks and after that letting the kids out on street to ask for candy from strangers might be a way for disaster if you’re not properly prepared. Halloween is the festival for the family and luckily lots of parents doesn’t get too much tension in the evening time of the festival. Halloween is time to have pleasure for you and your family. To make sure it goes that manner, here are five easy instructions to make certain your kids stay safe this Halloween.

1.    Prepared Early

The easiest thing you can perform as a parent to make sure you carry out a protected Halloween is to prepare ahead a little bit. This can be carry out by going out before the day and planning your route. In order to conserve the time that can waste while walking the entire parts of town and to arrive home at a perfect time, all you need to perform is ensure the houses before leaving. Though, if you get busy while planning on some other job and didn’t get sufficient time to go off along with your kids for trick or treat, take the help of some other parents who are moving out and make sure to understand the route and their plans.

2.    Have One Parent Along

Even if you engaged on other job but at least one parent must manage to move out with the kids for treat and treating. It’s not only safer to find where your child is, however you have to guarantee that your kid stays out without  any problem when they are left alone putting a mask on with a group of their friends.

3.    Avoid wandering in unfamiliar place

All the time try to stay nearby home in order to have a secure Halloween.  Do not walk far away from roads and houses that you know and don’t buzz any doorbells or knock on any doors that are unfamiliar. During Halloween, it is fortunate for you to have small neighbor that everybody know each other very well. If you didn’t have neighbor, you can check out for some popular spot like shopping mall.  In order to ensure those malls are the protected area to walk off with the children, many retailers give out chocolate to kids each year.

4.    Safety First

Safety and preventive measure should always be taken care and is vital, as accidents can be take place any time. Every time remember to bear a flashlight and sticks that glow for the kids to hold.  Any problem can be occurs anytime. So, always take a first aid kit and always keeps an eye on the packed road. There could be 200 kids and parents on the sidewalks until nighttime and there are cars on the streets.

5.    Put flash to the outfit

Some outfits need to be altered correctly since it can make trouble to kids.  It means that you have to add more effort and give some time to fix sparkle and reflecting tape on both surfaces of the outfits so that people traveling over there including the people driving the cars can see the costume properly. If your child is dressed up as Batman, they are indistinguishable at darkness. Make certain that there are enough reflectors on them that everyone can see them from a good distance away.

If you create nicely for Halloween, it doesn’t have to be the scary ordeal that it seems to be each year. Use common sense as well, checking the chocolate that your children brings, and not letting them wander off without you, even if there is another kid or parent with them. Taking care, spending time to plan, and not letting the little things creep up on you will all make sure a blissful, enjoyment Halloween.

Visit at http://www.cheaphalloweencostumesshop.com/ to find more on cheap Halloween costumes and get a lot of tips on how to throw a Halloween party in several ways. You will get tips on how to turn the boring party into an exciting event.

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Mistakes Parents Make During Halloween

January 17th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

Just like other holidays, Halloween night only comes once a year. Thus explains the preparations many parents do to get their kids all dressed up with their costumes as well as shop or prepare for children’s treats and of course, the family’s Halloween feast.

With all the fuss going on inside your house, you tend to forget to go through some safety talk with your kids. Safety rules are very important for you to discuss with your little ones and teens before you let them out in the neighborhood.

As guide for you in discussing safety rules with your kids during Halloween night, the following is a list of common mistakes parents tend to commit on Halloween:

Letting kids go without discussing rules.

As mentioned earlier, it is not wise to let your kids go out at Halloween night without reminding them of your safety rules. Make sure that you discuss the curfew hour with them and remind them to call or text anyone at home every one or two hours. If your kids are too young to go out at night, it is best if you go with them around the neighborhood. Do not let them go out without an adult to look after them.

Letting kids go out without any safety gear.

Do not let your kids go out on a Halloween night without any safety gear on hand. See to it that they have a hand-held flash light with them. If you are living in a big neighborhood, it is also important to give them a map that they can use if ever they get lost. Also, make sure that they carry a cellphone with them with saved contacts of family members as well as the number for the emergency hotline.

Not warning kids about accepting or eating treats.

These days, you just can’t trust everybody, no matter how safe you think the neighborhood is. There may be some bad people around who will take advantage of the Halloween night to kidnap or harm children. Hence, it is a must for you to warn your kids not to accept gifts and treats from neighbors they are not familiar with or with strangers in the streets. Always remind them not to go to a house alone and stay with their groups. Tell them not to eat unwrapped candies or loosely wrapped goodies, for these may be tampered already.

Letting children wear inappropriate costumes.

While Halloween night is the chance for your kids to express themselves, as parent you may need to supervise and check on what costumes they want to wear. Do not allow your kids to go out on skimpy outfits that show too much skin. Such costumes may be offensive to adults, especially because these are inappropriate for kids, even teenagers. In addition, take into account the convenience and comfort of their costumes. Take note that your kids will be wearing these costumes for hours, so make sure that costumes, like headdresses, are comfortable for your kids to wear and move around.

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Halloween Safety for Your Pet

January 13th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

Soon enough the season of costumes and Jack-O’-Lanterns will fill our neighborhoods with an endless parade of trick-or-treaters heading for our doorsteps. This year, be prepared to make the season a safe one for all members of the family. Here are some important veterinarian-recommended tips:

 

·      Halloween season is a time of mischief and pranks, and too often dogs and cats become unwilling participants. Keep your outdoor pets well supervised in the yard or, better yet, keep them indoors and safe from neighborhood hooligans at night.

·      If your dog has the personality and temperament to accompany the kids trick-or-treating, there are a variety of costumes available in pet-friendly sizes. Just make sure the costume doesn’t interfere with his ability to breathe, see, hear, move, or bark. Always make sure the fit isn’t constricting, and keep an eye out for signs your dog may be getting stressed out.

·      Like any other night you take your dog for a stroll, make sure he’s wearing his collar & nametag/ID. And with so many other people on the street, it’s important to keep him on a lead or leash.

·      Just as you’d make sure your kids aren’t eating unsafe candy, never let your dog get a hold of any bite-size sweets. Candy and wrappers are potential choking hazards, and chocolate is particularly dangerous for dogs – a toxin. Instead, pick up a container of baked cookies for Dogs to share or any other of your pooch’s favorite biscuits and treats.

·      No other time of year will so many strange kids in even stranger costumes be knocking on your door. This can be especially nerve-wracking for the territorial dog. With the door opening and closing all night, be careful of them darting out. You may even want to put up a temporary gate in the entranceway, or keep your pup in a separate room.

·      For especially nervous animals, the haunting screams of kids and endless chiming doorbells can get to be too much for comfort. There are a variety of calming products designed for storm- and travel-shy pets, which are also useful on Halloween.



Finally, decorations and Jack-O’-Lanterns are tempting for pets to get their noses into. Needless to say, it’s too easy for them to get hurt if left unsupervised, whether it’s in a tangle of crepe paper or a singed coat from an open flame. Always keep these Halloween favors out of your pet’s reach!

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Halloween Safety Tips for Parents and Children

January 12th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Tips To Manage

As the day for trick or treating approaches, the idea of safety should be on the minds of all, especially parents of small children.

You may not know this, but the United States Department of Transportation has issued statistics, which demonstrate that the majority of fatal collisions between motor vehicles and young pedestrians (under 15 years of age) happen most frequently between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. (i.e., during trick or treating hours!)

Also, 84% of deaths among young pedestrians occurred at non-intersection locations (indicating children are most likely to dart and dash from mid-block into the street).

Halloween also sees more than its share of automobile accidents because of the number of parties that take place (with alcohol being consumed).

Shockingly, of all the highway fatalities that take place on Halloween, approximately two-thirds of them are alcohol related.

These are certainly sobering numbers and may have you thinking about staying home instead of exposing your children to any harm.

However, by exercising some good common sense, everything will be just fine.

After reviewing the previously mentioned statistics, as well as a number of websites devoted to Halloween safety, I compiled the following list of tips, which I hope that everyone will follow.

For a safe and enjoyable trick or treating experience,

-Don’t let the excitement of Halloween allow your children to ignore the normal safety precautions: look both ways before crossing the street; cross in a crosswalk or at a corner (do not walk into the street between parked cars); walk on the sidewalk; do not talk to strangers; do not go into homes or cars of people they do not know; and do not approach animals they do not know.

-Make sure children know their name, phone number and address and to provide this information to a police officer in an emergency or if they are lost.

-Younger children should have an adult with them while older children should provide their route and when they expect to return. If possible, provide a cell phone for your children.

-Children should only visit homes that have their porch lights on.

-Inspect your children’s candy before they eat it. Although food tampering is rare, it’s safest to eat only those candies that are individually wrapped and not homemade, unless you know the families who have prepared the homemade treats.

-Have flashlights or glowsticks for children and/or for the accompanying adult.

-Adults are reminded not to drink alcohol and drive. In fact, it is safest to save the cocktails until after everyone is safe at home.

When selecting costumes for the little ones:

-Make sure your child’s Halloween costume is made with fire retardant materials and has eye holes large enough for your child to safely see out of. The costume should be short enough so it doesn’t interfere with walking.

-If your child carries an accessory, such as a fake sword, make sure it is made from a flexible material such as rubber, so it cannot injure your child or others.

-Provide a costume that uses bright color or use reflective tape, so your child can be seen clearly by drivers and other trick-or-treating families.

-Consider using makeup on children?s faces instead of a mask to allow the child to see clearly.

If all of these tips are followed, then everyone will have a much safer and ultimately enjoyable Halloween.

Be safe!

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