Safety tips

Our state has this program where they send a book each month to registered children under the age of 5. It's absolutely free, sponsored by some organization having to do w/ Dolly Parton. Once you reach your fifth birthday, they give you the boot. Noah has aged out but Claire and Chloe still get a new age-appropriate book each month. It's really quite cool and we've gotten some neat books.

Last month Claire got a book called "Officer Buckle and Gloria". It's about a police officer who goes around to schools w/ his police dog, Gloria, giving safety tips. It's terribly cute, and there's a little girl named Claire in it, too. On the front and back inside covers, it has a bunch of safety tips listed, such as, "Don't take other people's medicine" and "Don't talk to strangers". The first time we read the book I went thru and we talked about each one, explaining why these were good rules to follow.

Well, this book has inspired the children to come up w/ their own safety tips. They've actually come up w/ some really good ones, like "Don't stick your fingers in the electrical sockets" and "Hold your mama's hand in the parking lot". And then there are the equally valid, but a little more interesting ones. Like:

Claire
Don't put people in the oven.
Don't put nails in people's eyes.

Noah
Stay away from skunks.
Stay away from lions.
Don't drive motorcycles.
Don't stand on a rocking chair.
Watch out for cars. And leaf blowers, too.
Don't put a blanket over your head when you go night-night. (He does this every night.)
Don't stand next to Daddy when Daddy is hitting the ball. (The voice of experience?)