Parents are the main teachers of safe behavior on the road for their children
With the start of a new school year, parents face new challenges. For some, children are returning to school, having managed to wean themselves from heavy traffic over the summer, while for others, the child will go “to first grade for the first time,” which means he will have to get used to a new life - and a new road. Perhaps you can even overcome it yourself, without the help of adults - in any case, you will have to learn this someday. One way or another, the student gradually turns into an independent road user. What should parents do to raise their child to be a law-abiding pedestrian? How to instill in him stable skills of safe behavior on the road from the first steps of school?
The most important thing that every parent should remember: the main teacher of safe behavior on the road for his child will not be the school, but he.
School can only reinforce the skills and sustainable road safety habits that you develop in your family. So far, unfortunately, teachers are forced to retrain schoolchildren or wean them from incorrect knowledge and bad habits instilled by adults. After all, if parents consider it possible to break traffic rules, then their children will behave in the same way. They just repeat everything mom and dad do.
The main thing for parents in instilling in a child the skills of safe behavior on the road should be the principle
“ Do as I do .”
In order for a child not to violate traffic rules, he must not only know them - he must get into the habit of observing them. Even if you are late, still cross the road only where it is allowed; fasten your seat belts, do not exceed the speed limit - in a word, do not violate the traffic rules. Your example will be much more clear than the words “don’t run a red light” repeated hundreds of times.
You need to remember it yourself and instill it in your child: traffic begins not from the roadway, but from the first steps from the threshold or entrance of the house.
Walk with your child all the way to school and unobtrusively point out the most dangerous areas - an uncontrolled intersection, a narrow sidewalk, a truck approach to a store, parked cars, etc. Be sure to pay attention to the dangers that arise when boarding and disembarking from public transport. Under no circumstances should you bypass a stationary bus or trolleybus. You need to wait until the vehicle leaves and only then cross the road at the pedestrian crossing.
At the same time, there is no need to instill in children an excessive sense of fear of traffic and moving cars.
Let the child associate everything connected with school, including the road, with brightness and kindness. At the same time, you need to teach him to be attentive, and this is not an easy thing. The processes of perception, attention and reaction in a child and an adult are completely different. Experienced drivers know, for example, that sounding the horn when they see a child running across the road is dangerous. The child may act unpredictably - instead of stopping, he may rush without looking back under the wheels of another car.
Even those children who know the rules of safe behavior on the road sometimes break them. Don't take the trouble to help the children. You may have to stop a child who doesn't want to wait for a traffic light. Or help a schoolchild cross the road. Do it kindly!
