6 tips to teach road education to children
In addition to teaching your child to cross when the "lord" turns green, or put on the seat belt as soon as you get into the car, you must not forget another series of road safety habits, both for your safety and to respect others . An adequate road behavior, that is, a correct use of public roads, is one more piece of citizen behavior, which demands its corresponding educational form.
The road education is promoting a series of good habits and civic behavior, many of them related to "good education" and respect for others, such as knowing that you should not stop on the sidewalks in a way that prevents the passage to others, unless it is unavoidable to cross a pedestrian crossing or to board a vehicle.
Tips for parents: how to teach road education to children
1. In addition to ensuring the safety of your child, road safety standards teach manners. For example, they should help those who need them on the sidewalk, such as the elderly, disabled or with reduced mobility, or not to run on sidewalks because they can annoy others.
2. Remember that they imitate what they see. It is important that parents give example to your children in terms of road behavior refers to: put on the belt, do not cross with the "pedestrian" in red, do not get angry while driving or green the driver next door etc ...
3. If you want your children to be prudent future drivers, you must start by being your first driver. Respect the traffic rules and the indicated speed, as well as the use of the mobile phone inside the vehicle.
4. Your children should always know that until the belt is put on, the car will not start. It is not a mania of dad or mom, explain that there are many children who die or become disabled because they do not have their belts in a traffic accident, and those who are saved, is to wear it.
5. They should also be aware that the car does not play, we talk calmly, without fights or fuss. The tranquility of the driver is very important. You can simulate inside the garage or at home with chairs and what would happen if dad or mom are distracted by the bustle they put together.
6. Your child should know that it should never be done.
Children and young people: risk groups in traffic accidents
Statistical analyzes of accidents related to trafficking made by the countries of the European Union, show that one of the main risk groups is children and young people between the ages of five and seventeen, often due to imprudence , ignorance of basic safety rules or simple oversights. These same data show that the highest percentage of accidents happens using the public road as pedestrians, increasing progressively, especially after the age of fourteen, when these children and young people are involved in those as drivers of bicycles and mopeds.
In view of these perspectives, International Institutions such as the Council of Europe and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, studied their causes in depth, in order to determine relevant measures that would affect the aforementioned risk group, determining road education objectives that would serve of base to develop programs of Road Safety according to some parameters of action:
1. Ensure their own safety and behavior in a responsible manner, taking into account other users.
2. Prepare future bicycle drivers, mopeds and cars.
3. Learn and use the means to improve security of the current system.
4. Respect all traffic regulations, even those that are not safety rules in the strict sense.
Therefore, the Road Safety programs acquire a double dimension: road education is both a problem of general social and human education, and a problem of teaching certain behaviors and rules. To know a little more about what your children know about Road Safety, propose to do this test.
Alejandra Márquez
