Find an opportunity to teach children safety rules

Children's pranks with fire often lead to very regrettable consequences. Due to their limited life experience and immense curiosity, little ones find themselves in dangerous situations.

And, as a rule, behind every wrong action of children lie the wrong actions of us adults. Children, like sponges, absorb all information from the surrounding world. If a mother throws a burning match into a trash can after lighting a gas stove, her child will do the same next time. If a father smokes in the presence of children, the latter will also definitely find time and opportunity to try smoking.

A charging device for a mobile phone left plugged in by adults, as rescuers assume, provoked a fire in a Moscow apartment earlier this year. As a result, a six-year-old girl sustained serious injuries and later died in the hospital. The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that the girl was alone in the apartment at the time of the fire.

The trauma and death of children cannot be put into words. The grief for relatives and loved ones, parents, cannot be measured by anything. But we, adults, sometimes not understanding this or simply hoping that "it will pass," continue to leave children alone at home, do not follow safety rules ourselves, and sometimes do not even think about how important it is to talk to children about behavioral rules.

Rescuers have long developed numerous methodological and educational materials that can be used to teach safe behavior, not in the form of moralizing, but in a playful way. These include the Ministry of Emergency Situations' animated series ("The Magic Book of the Ministry of Emergency Situations," "Special Squad 112") and visual aids (coloring books, brochures, board games, etc.), which can be found on the ministry's official website and downloaded completely free of charge. As they say, he who wants to finds an opportunity, and he who doesn't want to finds excuses.

Dear parents, teach your children the rules of safe behavior from an early age. Explain what to do in case of an emergency, where to run and where to seek safety. Memorize and learn together with your children the numbers of emergency services, explain which service to call in which situation, while reminding them about the inadmissibility of false calls. This knowledge may become a life-saving ring for your child, which will save their life.