Safe winter holidays

The long-awaited and much-loved winter holidays are just around the corner! To ensure that children are rested, healthy, and safe, it is important to remember a number of rules and conditions when organizing their holidays with parents, relatives, and friends:

1. Instill in children personal safety skills.

2. Hold discussions with children, explaining important rules, adherence to which will help save lives.

3. Be constantly aware of where your child is and with whom, monitor the whereabouts of children, and regularly remind them of the rules of conduct in public places.

4. Prohibit children from being near bodies of water and going out on the ice.

5. Remind children of traffic rules for pedestrians in the winter period.

Remember that children are naturally careless and trusting. Children's attention can be scattered. Therefore, the more often you remind your child of simple rules of conduct, the more likely they are to remember and apply them.

What should children know and remember?

– be extremely careful during icy conditions;

– do not walk on frozen ice on bodies of water, even if you are confident that the ice is strong;

– matches are not toys;

– do not play with pyrotechnics;

– it is not recommended to walk near buildings to avoid falling snow and icicles from roofs.

We draw parents' special attention to the use of tubing by children. If safety rules are not followed, tubing becomes uncontrollable and deadly dangerous. To ensure that tubing is enjoyable, demand that children use it correctly.

Therefore, it is necessary to remember:

– use tubing that is the correct size;

– you should only ride on specially equipped slopes, this is the most important rule, which should not be neglected;

– do not go down the hill "in a train" or one after another. If one tube overturns, the others will follow, which sharply increases the number of injuries;

– do not ride two people on one tube! Only individually and only sitting down!!!

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know that unlike sleds, tubing can reach speeds of up to 100 km/h, and there is no braking device.