Home Safety Presentation: Health Promotion for 3-5 Year Old Children

This presentation on home safety emphasizes the importance of creating a safe home environment for children between three and five years old, a critical age when children become more independent and explore their limits. It highlights that most home injuries are predictable and preventable by addressing potential hazards in various rooms, including the living room (candles, photo frames, televisions), bedroom (windows, cords), kitchen (access, cabinets, stove), and bathroom (faucets, wastebaskets). The presentation references research on child development and parental safety practices, promoting awareness and proactive measures to minimize risks and ensure a safer upbringing. Desklib offers a wealth of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to further support students in related studies.

Home
safety
PRESENTED BY-

Home safe home
 The place of safety
 First environment children are exposed
 Home can be pace children getting
injured.
 Children proofing is necessary for

Home safety
Home safety is the concept of making
home environment accidents
eliminated.
 Injuries occurring at home.
 Most injuries are predictable.
 Most injuries are preventable

3-5 years children
 Children becomes independent.
 They try their limits
 Improved gross motor skills
 They like active activities
 Improved fine motor skill
 They understand language and
conversation
 They understand emotions
 They can build sentences

Living room
 Candles and matches out of sight and
reach
 Keeping photo frames up and away
 Mounted television
 Covered fireplace

Bedroom
 Guarding the windows
 Cordless Window blinds
 Dresser should not be locked

Kitchen
 A gated kitchen or a kitchen with
door
 Protected lower cabinets
 Locked dishwasher
 Microwave kept out of reach
 Stove knobs safely guarded

Bathroom
 Tab faucets covered securely
 Without liner wastebasket
 Appropriate door closure

References:
Mangin, K. S., Horwood, L. J., & Woodward, L. J. (2017). Cognitive development
trajectories of very preterm and typically developing children. Child
development, 88(1), 282-298.
Morrongiello, B. A. (2018). Preventing Unintentional Injuries to Young Children in
the Home: Understanding and Influencing Parents’ Safety Practices. Child
Development Perspectives.
Palaiologou, I. (2016). Children under five and digital technologies: implications for
early years pedagogy. European Early Childhood Education Research
Journal, 24(1), 5-24.
Tyler, D. (2017). ‘Setting the Child Free’: Teachers, Mothers and Child-centred
Pedagogy in the 1930s Kindergarten. In Gender matters in educational
administration and policy (pp. 49-67). Routledge.

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