[doorbell ringing] (children) ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Let's say it again.♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Now you are my friend.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪That's a word we all should know.♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪You can say it.♪ ♪Just say hello.♪ ♪♪♪ Hey!

There's Mr. Chuck!

Well, hello, friend!

Hello, Mr. Chuck!

♪♪♪ Hello, friends.

Do you know what this says?

Take a look.

It says safety.

That's because I always think about safety before I do something.

You should think about safety, too.

You know you can do that by learning the difference between things that are safe and things that are unsafe.

And pointing out unsafe things to a grownup.

They appreciate that.

Let's see how much you know about safety.

Let's play a game.

I like to call this game... because it's always a good idea to stop and think before you do something that is not safe.

I'm going to show you four things, and you decide which of these four things is not safe for you to touch or play with.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

A doll... A crayon... A lighter... And an apple.

Now stop and think.

Which of these should only be used by an adult?

Did you say the lighter?

You're right.

Only adults should use lighters.

You can get burned if you play with lighters, and you know, you could even burn the whole house down.

Lighters are not safe for children to play with.

If you see a lighter lying around don't touch it.

And then tell a grownup as soon as you can so they can put it away safely.

Next we have a ball... A bottle of window cleaner... A cardboard box... And a book.

Stop and think and see if you can tell which of these is not safe for children to touch.

Did you say the window cleaner?

You're right.

Cleaning products can be dangerous.

If you accidentally got some of this in your eyes, it would hurt and if you got some in your mouth, well, it could make you very sick.

Some cleaning products will even burn your skin if you get it on you.

If you think about safety first you'll know better than to ever play with these.

So remember... Then talk to a grownup about it.

Let's do this one more time.

Here's a paper plate... An Orange... A teddy bear... And a bottle of medicine.

Now stop and think.

Which of these things is not safe to play with?

Did I hear you say a bottle of medicine?

You're right.

Medicine can be very dangerous even if it's your own medicine.

Always wait for an adult to give it to you.

They will make sure you get the right amount and at the right time.

If you see that someone has left medicine lying around, Then tell a grownup.

That's the best way to stay safe.

(children) Hmmmm.

♪♪♪ Safety.

S-A-F-E-T-Y.

Safety.

Everybody wear your seat belt.

You better put on your seatbelt like if you were in a crash and you didn't have your seat belt - if there was a baby, no seat belt on it could go right out of the windshield and get scratched up by the windshield because you have to be like five or older to like sit in no seat belt.

You have to be like 10 to sit in the front.

But sometimes if you're older than five and you want to be very safe and look through the window you could sit in a booster.

Buckle your seat belt up.

Because if you don't you'll maybe fly out of the car and you'll hurt yourself.

Wear your seat belt.

Friends, we should always think about safety wherever we go, not just at home.

It's especially important to think about safety when we're in the car.

Right now friends I'd like for you to meet another one of our friends, Sergeant Pat Kerwin.

Sergeant Kerwin is a police officer.

Hello, Mr. Chuck and hello friends.

Sergeant Kerwin has brought his partner to visit with us.

You have a very unusual partner, sergeant.

Would you mind introducing him to us?

Yes, Mr. Chuck and friends.

This is Buddy the Bear, my faithful traveling companion.

What does Buddy do?

Well Mr. Chuck, Buddy rides in the squad car with me and when small children see Buddy, they ask questions and I say, "Well, Buddy "is riding back there in the back seat where he belongs in a child restraint seat."

And he shows them some very important things I guess, about riding in a car seat or buckling up with seat belts, right?

When they see Buddy, they know then that he is there for a reason and once they see Buddy then they know that that's the proper place to be.

Sergeant, why is riding in a car seat so important?

Well, if you don't ride in a car seat and you should have an accident, you could get hurt very badly.

Buddy is a good teacher, too.

Yes, Buddy is a good teacher.

Well thank you very much for being with us, sergeant.

Well, it's a pleasure to be able to tell our young friends about car safety.

Oops, time to go.

Bye, Mr. Chuck.

Goodbye, Sergeant Kerwin.

Goodbye, Buddy.

Remember, it's important to think about safety wherever we go, at home and in the car.

♪♪♪ ♪If you happen to see a certain deputy♪ ♪Cruising in squad car 133,♪ ♪take a really good look at the passenger♪ ♪riding in the backseat of his car.♪ ♪He's not under arrest.♪ ♪He's a special guest of Sergeant Pat Kerwin♪ ♪and they're doing their best♪ ♪to teach us how important kid safety seats really are.♪ ♪He's Buddy the Bear and he'll make you aware♪ ♪of the safest way to get from here to there.♪ ♪You got to buckle up, strap tight, sitting in the back♪ ♪right where it's best to be.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪Oh Buddy the Bear wants to make you aware♪ ♪Of the safest way to get from here to there.♪ ♪You got to buckle up, strap tight, sitting in the back♪ ♪right where it's best to be.♪ ♪You got to buckle up, strap tight, sitting in the back♪ ♪right where it's best to be.♪ ♪You got to buckle up, strap tight, sitting in the back♪ ♪right where it's safe to be.♪ ♪♪♪ You shouldn't play with matches.

(man) Why not?

Because you could get on fire.

(man) Is that true Emily?

I don't know.

You shouldn't play with matches either.

That will make a fire.

That will make a fire in the house.

Like if you put a match under some paper you could get your roof blown off.

And then when it's a tornado everybody could get sucked up.

so I never do it.

No.

No.

No.

♪Don't play with matches.♪ ♪Don't play with matches.♪ ♪Don't play with matches.♪ ♪Don't play with matches.♪ ♪Don't play with matches.♪ [laughing] (Mr. Chuck) Do you see these things?

Do you know what they are?

Well these are matches.

And these are lighters.

And this is a candle.

Do you know what all of these things have in common?

Fire.

Look at these matches.

Matches come in different shapes and sizes.

These are long and these are short.

These are made of wood and these are made of paper.

This is the part of the match that catches on fire.

Sometimes the tip is red and sometimes it's other colors but they all start fires.

No matter what they look like, matches are not safe for you to play with.

Oh, these are lighters.

These lighters come in lots of bright colors and designs but you can tell they're lighters by the shape.

This is a different kind of lighter.

It has a lid that flips up like this.

And this is the part that makes fire.

This big thing, it's a lighter too.

You may have seen your mom or dad to use one to light the bar-b-q grill.

This long skinny one here, this is used to light a fire in the fireplace.

These may all look different but they're really all for doing the same thing, to start fires .

And you don't want to play with any of them because you might start a fire somewhere you shouldn't.

You can even burn your house down.

You might also burn yourself very badly and that would hurt a lot.

Only grownups should use lighters and matches.

You should never play with matches because it might burn up something or might burn up you.

You're not to play with matches, fire or other dangerous things that parents have, like guns and arrows.

[doorbell ringing] What should you do if someone rings your doorbell or knocks on your door and your mom or dad doesn't hear it?

You should go tell them someone is at the door.

You know, answering the door is a grownup's job.

That's because the person at the door might be a stranger and you should always be careful around strangers.

What should you do if you're playing out in your yard and someone stops in front of your house with a cat and offers to let you pet it?

You should go inside and tell a grownup.

If a stranger offers you candy or gum or even if they have a really adorable kitten that you'd love to pet, stop and think about safety.

Go tell a grownup because you should always be careful around strangers.

♪♪♪ (girl) I like going to the mall.

Today I'm shopping with my big sister.

We're buying a card for our mom.

♪♪♪ I'm really good at picking out cards.

♪♪♪ Hey, this one looks very good.

♪♪♪ Hey, wait a minute.

Where's my sister?

♪♪♪ She was just here a minute ago.

♪♪♪ Did she leave me?

It could be real scary if you're lost by yourself.

♪♪♪ What should I do?

(Mr. Chuck) Don't panic and don't wander away looking.

Go into the nearest store and ask the person working at the cash register to help you find your sister or whomever you're with.

She'll call for help to let someone know where you are.

Wait there until someone comes to get you.

♪♪♪ (girl) I don't know, what does that mean?

Oh yeah, railroad crossing.

School zone.

Children crossing.

Pedes, pedest- people crossing.

What is that?

Oh yeah, it's a curvy road.

My name is Dolores Ryan.

I'm a school crossing guard.

My job is to make sure children get across the street safely when they are going to and from school.

The children wait at the corner, and when they want to cross I go to the middle of the street and blow my whistle and hold up a sign that says stop.

All drivers must then stop.

After the cars have stopped, I wave to the children that it is safe to cross the street.

I wear a bright orange vest to help make sure drivers can see me.

If you ever need to cross the street make sure you hold a grownup's hand and look both ways before you step off the curb.

Then walk quickly to the other side making sure you've crossed at the corner.

I'm a school crossing guard and I want everyone to stay safe when they cross the street.

Friends, let's play a game.

Do you know what this is?

It's a stop light and each of the colors on the stop light is a signal that lets drivers know what they should do.

There's red, yellow and green.

Do you know what each of the colors mean?

Well red means stop.

Yellow means slow down.

And the green means go.

So what kind of game will we play?

Let me show you.

Are you ready?

Yes!

Green means go.

♪♪♪ You can try this at home you know.

♪♪♪ Yellow means slow down.

♪♪♪ Isn't this fun?

♪♪♪ Red light means stop.

Green light!

♪♪♪ Yellow light.

♪♪♪ Red light.

[children laughing] Green light.

♪♪♪ Yellow light.

♪♪♪ Red light.

[children laughing] Let's give yourselves a hand.

You did real great.

[cheering] I hope you enjoyed that, too.

(children) Red means stop.

Yellow means slow down.

Green means go.

If you're a parent you've learned that children can find new ways to hurt themselves almost every day.

Ways that may never have occurred to you.

It's impossible to keep our children safe from every conceivable danger in the world but it's not impossible to prevent many unnecessary accidents from happening.

Today on Parent's Corner we have Susan Helms, a child safety expert, to talk about some of those childhood dangers.

I don't think I can stress enough how important making safety a part of their everyday activities is.

All too often children are hurt and they really didn't have to be.

Most of the injuries and even the fatalities that happen to children are preventable.

One of the first ways to start is when we talk about child passenger safety.

Nothing is more important than buckling up your children on every single ride, starting with that first ride home from the hospital.

Children from birth up to age one need to be in a child safety seat that is in the back seat that is rear facing and on a slant.

And that's because their neck muscles are not yet sophisticated and if there's going to be a crash the brunt of the crash will be on the back of the car seat and not on the front of the baby.

When the baby is one year old you can turn them around.

From one to four they can be sitting again in the backseat more upright and they can be in a seat like this all the way to age four.

At age four they could technically sit on the seat of the car but they're probably not tall enough and that's why you might want to consider using a booster seat.

The booster seat elevates them and then they can use the shoulder strap at the shoulder and the lap belt at the hip and they're protected.

What you want to do is make sure that they're tight and they're not going to go anywhere on a sudden impact or a crash.

It is the most important thing.

And the second most important thing to go along with that is that you need to buckle up as well.

Your example is so important and your life will be saved as well.

We can talk about a whole lot of things.

I'd really like to talk about the possibility of keeping choking away from your children.

One of the things that's so important to think about is keeping rubber balloons away from children whether they're blown up or they're pieced.

Children can put this in their mouth and kids explore their world as young ones by putting everything in their mouth and a piece of this could get caught in their windpipe and breathing will stop.

So it's important to keep these away from children until you know they're not exploring their world by putting everything in their mouth and if you're really not sure about the size of things, just take a common household roll of toilet paper and put the object through it.

If it goes through it's way too tiny to have around young children.

I don't think I can stress enough how important it is to think and practice safety and making safety a habit in your home.

You need to instill safety habits in your children so they will instill it in their children.

Safety habits predict the future.

We need to do all we can to keep our kids safe.

Today we've talking about lots of different ways to stay safe and there is a lot to think about when it comes to safety.

Learning the safety rules is important and always remember to talk about safety with your parents, especially if you're unsure about something.

They can help you learn the safe way to do things.

Well, that's about all we have time for today friends.

So until next time, always stop and think about safety.

So long.

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