Protect your kids during this festive

During this time of the year, incidents of crime including rape, are very high. It is thus, therefore, parents need to be responsible and make sure that their kids are always playing in a safe environment.

Here are some of tips that can play a significant role when it comes to protecting children during the festive season:

• Never leave your kids with a stranger
• They must not play in the streets at night
• Children must avoid walking alone in quite places, especially at night.

Parents need to communicate with their children, teach them about dirty tricks that are used by criminals or rapists to get their attention such as asking for directions, offering them gifts and they must not ask for lifts from strangers because they might be raped or fall victims of child/human trafficking and transported to other countries where they will be sex slaves.

Parents also need to provide their children with emergency numbers like your 10111 so that it will be easy for them to contact police if they experience problems that are related to sexual abuse or crime.