Top 5 Diwali Safety Tips For Kids

Kids

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By Anwesha Barari

Friday, October 14, 2011, 14:08

Safety tips for kids is what you would put over all your shopping and decorations on the festive occasion of Diwali 2011. If there is one thing that plagues parents even amidst the grand festivities of lights then it is the safety of their children. Every year many accidents that take place to serve as precedents. You can probably be more relaxed on Diwali 2011 if you make sure your kids follow these safety tips while they burst crackers. All you have to do is counsel them instead of threatening or scaring them.

Here are some kids safety tips to make sure your children have a damage free Diwali. Treat them more as parenting tips because it how you implement them that will determine their success.

Top 5 Diwali Safety Tips For Kids:

1. Are Your Kids Wearing Inflammable Clothes?
It is lovely to look at the little ones decked up in silk ghagra cholis and kurtas but what if those very pretty clothes become the cause of their accidents? It is a part of our culture to wear new traditional clothes on Diwali but as parents you can follow tradition only as long as it does not put your children in harm ways. Make sure your kids wear cotton clothes only this Diwali. Silk, satin, chiffon and other synthetic materials are easily inflammable.

2. Are You Kids Wearing Clumsy Clothes?
Duppatas, stoles, long skirts or long sleeves make movement clumsy. It is always better for your kids to wear simple western clothes. You can make them wear all the fancy clothes you want at home during puja but near fireworks they should not wear clothes that do not hang about loosely or restrict movement. This point and one above is in your hands to follow.

3. Are Your Kids Bursting The Right Kind Of Fireworks?
Not all fireworks are for kids. You have to take a call on what is safe and what isn't for your children. There is a government accreditation that says that all crackers for children must be burst under parental guidance but that is not always possible. However what fire crackers you buy for your kids is in your hands.

4. Do Your Kids Know How To Burst Crackers?
Fireworks for kids are exciting and in their zeal to burst crackers they throw caution to the winds. You have to teach them the tricks to burst each cracker. Its not rocket science, just the science behind lighting a rocket that you have to teach them!

5. Where Are Your Kids Burning Crackers?
Apart from firework safety, the safety of the place where kids light fireworks is also important. Let them not do it in the middle of the road or place near other inflammable. This is one of the simplest things we miss out on.

Use these safety tips for kids on Diwali 2011 and may be you will enjoy it better with a relaxed mind.