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What to do: Emergency and Advice Numbers

When you need advice on a specific area such as meningitis, asthma, cot death, eating disorders or perhaps allergies, there is a large number of resources, many with websites, available…

What to do: Emergency Planning with Children

Many parents will have briefed their children on how and when to dial 999 by the age of 4 or 5, but there are further steps we can take to…

What to do: Fire Escape Plan

Our article on smoke alarms and fire safety offers useful advice on fire prevention and fire detection in the home – but do your children know just what to do…

Your Child’s Personal Safety

It’s easy to overreact when you think of that dangerous world out there, but all children need to learn to become confident and independent young people. Maintaining good relationships, based…

Games Console – How Much Time is Safe?

There has been a great debate recently about how much time is safe for children to spend at game consoles and playing video games. However, like many other aspects of…

How Useful are Children’s Search Engines?

For homework and home entertainment, recipes and reviews, music and messages, children seem to use the Internet more every day. Unfortunately, the are many pages that are Inappropriate For A…

Tracking Your Children Online

These days kids think being online is a right, not a privilege. It’s how they play games, download music, and communicate with their friends. But however sophisticated your children think…

Control Keys

Here are examples of the control keys on PtS Content and what they represent. Ctrl P – paragraph Ctrl B – Line break Ctrl W – Bold Ctrl Q –…

First Aid: CPR for Children From 1 Year Old to Puberty

For the purposes of these instructions, a child is considered to be between one year to puberty. If you have someone with you, send them to dial 999 (or 112)…

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