KiddiesGames.com is proud to present its new Fire Safety online computer game for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, in English, Spanish and French.
KiddiesGames.com is proud to present its new Fire Safety online computer game for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, in English, Spanish and French.
This Fire Safety game is designed to be fun and engaging, whether you’re a computer-savvy preschooler, or a computer-debutant baby. The simple but serious lessons exposed by the game include:
In the case of smoke or fire, get out of the building immediately. Tragically, this is not the first instinct of small children, who have been found hiding in beds and closets.
A reminder to caregivers to install smoke detectors. Incredibly, this is not mandatory in all places, leading to very sad tragedies when there is not enough time to save everyone in a fire because the fire has advanced so much before people wake up and start to take action.
A fire safety game for children is particularly valuable, because statistics (such as quoted at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/kids/parents-teachers/about.shtm) show that children are particularly at risk of not surviving a residential fire, especially children 5 years old and under. All KiddiesGames encourage caregivers to play the computer games with their small child in their lap. Thus, the game’s reminder about installing smoke detectors will reach its target audience – adults.
The KiddiesGames.com Fire Safety game was based on the recommendations of local Montreal firefighters who specialize in teaching fire safety to small children. Following those recommendations, the game features a clever little teddy bear to imitate, who is able to go to doors and windows and open them to get out. Although small children usually cannot open doors and windows, these firefighters tell children to do that nonetheless, because they have found hiding children too late, while they have found unconscious but alive adults at doorways where they were overcome by smoke on their way out. With this game, KiddiesGames thus joins a small, select group of websites that offer such potentially life-saving games. Sesamestreetworkshop.org is another such site.
KiddiesGames.com offers other fun, educational safety games for small children, about traffic lights and practising dialing emergency on the telephone. As regular players of KiddiesGames come to expect, a small child can control the Fire Safety game and make things happen, which makes the game a responsive, open-ended exploration activity, or can sit back passively and watch the game unfold, learning educational concepts along the way.
To actually play this new free Fire Safety game, follow the following links.
We don't have to like their hairdos, the earring in the nose, or their strange-looking shoes. Our love for them does have to be something they can count on, something they know will always be there, even when they are in trouble and we'd probably rather not be there. Being there when they are resting comfortably in our arms, smiling up at us for the first time, is easy; being there when they are cutting teeth, colicky, and crying through the night is not. Being there when they learn to ride a two-wheeler is easy; being there when they have wrecked the family car is not. Being there when they are performing in the school play is easy; being there when they call from the police station is not.
quoted from "Kids are worth it! Giving your child the gift of inner discipline" by Barbara Coloroso, page 11-12
Small children should be supervised by a caregiver when at a computer,
to ensure no accidents occur that could hurt the child and that no equipment gets broken.