{"id":5951,"date":"2017-08-27T08:08:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2017-08-27T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T10:40:51","slug":"tips-to-keep-your-kids-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/27\/tips-to-keep-your-kids-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips to keep your kids safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kirkland Lake Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) reminds parents that they have an important role to play in ensuring their children&#8217;s safety with strangers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The obvious conversation that parents should have with their children is to teach them stranger danger. Strangers don&#8217;t always have a rough appearance and can appear to be perfectly normal. Here are some important tips for children and their parents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safety tips for children:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know your name, address and phone number<\/li>\n<li>Learn how and when to call 911<\/li>\n<li>If you are scared of someone run to safety<\/li>\n<li>Avoid any shortcuts when you are walking\u00a0from one place to another<\/li>\n<li>Have a &#8220;call list&#8221; and know how and when to use it<\/li>\n<li>Never talk to people online without your parents&#8217; permission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips for parents:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work hard to establish trust and communication with your children<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you know how to find or contact your children at all times<\/li>\n<li>Take an active role in your children&#8217;s activities<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t ever leave children unattended in a vehicle, whether it is running or not<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ql-align-center\">&#8220;Children are vulnerable, it&#8217;s up to parents to do all they can do to protect them and ensure their safety &#8220;, says Kirkland Lake OPP Detachment Commander Staff Sergeant Rick Witty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kirkland Lake Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) reminds parents that they have an important role to play in ensuring their children&#8217;s safety with strangers. The obvious conversation that parents should have with their children is to teach them stranger danger. Strangers don&#8217;t always have a rough appearance and can appear to be perfectly normal. Here &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:07:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}