In our everyday life, a lot of things happen. For instance, we meet new people, new neighbours or our class fellows. We go out to play with friends or for our sports activities.

So whether you are at home, school or playing outside, safety always comes first! Never put yourself at risk socially, morally, mentally or physically. Keeping yourself safe from potential dangers is what makes you smart kids of today.

You may ask how? The answer is by being vigilant about your surroundings, the people around you, traffic and social networking sites. Though social media has made you all pretty smart, you still need to be more than just smart and Safety4kids helps you out in reminding about the areas you need to be careful at!

Safety 4 Kids is a site of a non-profit organisation designed to help kids make better decisions about their personal safety. It focuses on some important areas with four cute animals as a team — Buddy (a dog), Hazel (a hippo), Eric (an elephant), and Paulie (a panda). They separately give tips and guidelines on their pages.

The site is very colourful and quite interesting to navigate through; the main menu is at the top centre with some great tips on how to cross the road and be watchful in ‘Road safety’; keeping all your senses active while meeting new people in ‘Stranger danger’; how to say no to bullies and fight back in ‘Bullying’; swimming tips in pool safety, and also internet safety which you can view by visiting ‘Safety Zone’. ‘Fun Zone’ section is full of exciting games, such as hidden objects or hide and seek adventures. The section also has word puzzles and colouring-in images, you can fill colour and also submit your artwork to the site without the need of registration.

Safety4kids is ad-free and doesn’t need registration; the whole focus is to develop a sense of safety from a very young age. So kids, take care and remember to look, listen and stay safe — everywhere! For more: http://www.safety4kids.com.au

Published in Dawn, Young World, October 22nd, 2016