Toddlers Safety While Driving

Sometimes adults often forget or do not consider the risk they expose children to while driving them around in their cars. They forget the basic rules guiding driving and driving with kids. Letting them play around in the car as well as shuttling between the front and back seat is a very “normal” occurrence we witness. There are even crazier situations where parents carry their kids on their laps while driving. Let us not play with lives and not give in to temptation by refreshing our memories with some of these basic rules.

• Never carry a child in the front seat; strap then well on the back seats. Even where you have another person carrying the child, they should seat at the back seat
• Use a car seat preferably for children; the car seat is best at the backseats. However, if you have one that can be placed in the front seat, make sure the rear is facing the dashboard, while the front faces the passenger seat. This way, if there is any accident, the child would not get suffocated by the air bags and would rather be cushioned by the seat
• Always use seat belts for yourself and for your kids that could be strapped in
• Never carry kids on your laps while driving as they would distract you from driving, and once you lose concentration even for a second, the result might be drastic
• Always pin down the doors and if it is a car with auto control buttons use central lock; same thing applies to windows. Consider also installing child safety lock in the car
•  Do not leave children unattended in cars
• Always remove the car key from the ignition, as a child might be curious to find out how the car works, and could, therefore, start the car
• Discourage kids from playing with toys in the car
• Don’t eat and drive, and don’t smoke and drive as you could be distracted