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Calm, practical safety — for reading together, not tracking

This is a library of stories, printables and grown-up guides that help families talk about staying safe. It is not an app that watches your child.

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Timely tips & alerts for your family

For United States, in November — autumn. It all follows the country you pick here. Nothing on this page tracks where you are.

  • Heating goes on before the alarms get checked

    Test every smoke and carbon monoxide alarm before the first cold night, not after it.

Emergency numbers · United States

Make your family contact sheet

Seasonal tips

Autumn safety for your family

Based on the season where you are in North America. Quick things worth doing this month.

Test your heating before the first cold snap — dust off heaters and check cords for fraying.

Walk through your home in the dark to spot trip hazards you miss in daylight, before the clocks change.

Refresh your power-outage kit — torches, batteries and a charged phone power bank.

Clear dry leaves from gutters and around the home before storm season arrives.

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Safety stories to read together

Gentle picture books that open a conversation without frightening anyone.

Printable resources

Fill them in together and keep them on the fridge — a family screen-time agreement, an emergency contacts card, and a "My Safe Adults" worksheet.

How to print your emergency contact list

Four quick steps and it comes out the right size, crisp on standard printer paper.

  1. Step 1

    Pick what to print, then download

    In the contact list builder, choose a fridge sheet or a bag card and your paper size, then press Download PDF. The file opens in your browser's PDF viewer.

  2. Step 2

    Match the paper you actually have

    A4 is standard in most of the world; US Letter is standard in the US and Canada. Pick the same size in the builder as the paper in your tray, or the sheet will be scaled down.

  3. Step 3

    Print at 100%, not “fit to page”

    In the print dialog set Scaling to 100% or Actual size, and turn off “fit to printable area”. Choose default margins, plain white paper and the black & white option if you want to save ink.

  4. Step 4

    Make it stay put

    Print the fridge sheet on plain paper and tape it at eye level, or laminate it. Cut the bag cards along the faint crop lines, fold, and slip one into a school bag or wallet.

Printing a bag card? Print it on thicker paper (around 160 gsm) so it survives a school bag, and use the colour option on the first copy so the numbers are easy to read in a hurry.

Guides for grown-ups

Online safety and stranger awareness, in plain language, with no scare tactics.

Online safety

Online safety for little ones

Screens arrive earlier than most of us planned. Here is how to set a calm, workable family agreement — and what to say when something upsetting appears on the screen.

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Stranger awareness

Stranger awareness without fear

Teaching safety without teaching fear. The three ideas that work with young children, and the worksheet that makes the conversation concrete.

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Online safety

Talking with your child about online safety

How to start the conversation about screens and strangers online without making your child anxious — and what to agree on together.

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