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How you can help
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Keep matches and lighters out of children’s sight and reach. Even toddlers can use lighters and kitchen matches to start a flame |
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Teach pre-school children to tell a grown-up if they find matches or lighters |
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Teach school age children to give matches and lighters to a grown up. Praise your child whenever he or she does this |
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Teach your child how to say no when friends suggest playing with fire |
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Teach children that fire is a tool, not a toy. Talk about the ways grown-ups use tools (cooking tools, repair and building tools, and hobby tools) |
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Explain how grown-ups use matches to light candles, start a campfire or light a barbeque |
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Teach your school age child the safe use of fire. Provide opportunities for your child to light matches under a grown-up’s supervision, such as lighting the candles on a birthday cake |
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Older teenagers need to be told clearly about the risks of fire from smoking. Even if they don’t smoke they may go to parties with people who do |
Further information
Lynn Hosking
Youth Officer
01743 260 257
Chris Page
Scheme Administrator
01743 260 254
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