12 Days of Christmas Giveaway-Day 10
December 11, 2007 · Print This Article
Imaginif you could keep your kids safe just by reading them a story. You can! It’s called bibliotherapy. Megan over at Imaginif Child Protection became Serious Business knows a bit about this sort of stuff because she is a child and protective behaviour specialist. Add to that, Megan actually wrote the TWO books we’re giving away today: Bitss of Caramel Marmalade on Toast.
Although written as a tall tell-tale and endearingly stirring children’s read, this junior fiction chapter book sensitively addresses important protective behaviour strategies aimed at protecting children from hidden harms.
The story gives children in the 8-12 year old age group an opportunity to growl against those seemingly sweet monsters that hide within our utopia but who may really want to change ripeness for life into a rancid, rotting mass of fly blown waste (for a little more story description, read a blurb over at Imaginif’s Protective Play shop).
Bitss of Caramel Marmalade on Toast is definitely a book to include in the discerning child’s or adult’s Christmas stocking. If you care about keeping your child safe from bullies and predators, then this is the competition for you to enter.
To win one of two copies of Bitss of Caramel Marmalade on Toast
Imaginif wants you to enter their Child Safety tips Christmas competition. But…you leave your child safety tip here. Megan will collect your tips to include in the Imaginif competition (cash prize too by the way: final amount corresponds to number of tips) and I get to pick two winners from here based on whether I think your child safety tip would help keep my kids safe. I’ll be judging your tips over the weekend.
But wait…there’s more. Imaginif also donated a Kookaburra Hand puppet for women bloggers who participate in our All Women Blogging Carnival. If you are included in next Monday’s All Women Blogging Carnival then you will be in the draw to win the Kookaburra hand puppet.
And last but not least, Imaginif wishes you all a safe Christmas and offers you a FREE copy of their protective play tutorial, “Parent Sense” (here’s my tip – print this tutorial out and read it to help generate some good child safety tips – it gets the creative protective play juices flowing).
RRP of Bitss of Caramel Marmalade on Toast is $15.00 and Kookaburra hand puppet $18.00.
For your chance to win…
- Entry is open to WorldWide
- Leave a comment below, sharing with us your child safety tips, be sure to use a working email address or website where you can be contacted.
- Competition is open from 12am Wednesday the 12th of December until 11:30pm Friday the 14th of December AEDST
What a great prize!
My tip is to encourage older, unsupervised children wanting their independence in the bath/shower to sing so that you can hear that they are OK and haven’t slipped over or anything in the bath or shower without you hearing them..
When using the stove, remember to keep all pot and pan handles turned toward the back of the stove.
After filling the bath, turn the cold tap on full for a second or two. This will cool down the faucet so the children won’t get burnt if they touch it.
Never leave any of the children unsupervised in the pool area. Also, when swimming is finished, we always make sure we take the ladder off (so little ones can’t climb in) and secure the gate properly.
Never let children ride their bikes around the streets, if they do want to go around the block or to the corner store, jump on your bike and go for a ride with them. oh and never ever is it acceptable that children use their bikes, skateboards or scooters without a proper fitted helmet.
We live in a country area and it’s easy to get a little too lax about how safe it can be for our children. We don’t assume anything AND make sure that we provide written notification to our bus driver about any changes to their usual routine. Once they got left at school based on a mis-communication. We also communicate diligently with the school so that they know exactly what is happening at all times. I would rather give them more information than they need than not enough. Hopefully then, anything suspicious or out of the ordinary would cause alarm bells to ring rather than the wrong assumption being made that everything is alright. It’s sad but you just can’t be too careful when it comes to the safety and wellbeing of children and teens.
When making up the cot for your baby always short sheet the bed i.e make the bed down the end of the cot with the blankets and sheets shorter.This will help to ensure your baby does not wriggle down under the covers and potentially suffocate.
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