How to Help Children Find Their Address in an Emergency
If you’ve ever called the emergency services, you know that one of the first things people ask you about – often even before you even said why you are calling – is your location. So when you teach your kids to dial emergency numbers on their phone, make sure they know their address too. A sticker might help.
The CDC recently tweeted about the hacked address : stick one of the return address stickers on your phone. I remember address stickers from the days of landline phones, and it’s still handy to see the address sticker on your phone, which you might need when ordering pizza from the office, for example. But you can use this tip for mobile phones too.
Just print or write your address on a sticker, or use one of those address labels that you accidentally receive in the mail and attach it to the back of your cell phone. (Don’t want to show your address to the world? Open your phone case and stick it in there. Just make sure the kids know about it.)
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Now it may seem silly to expect that a child who is old enough to read an address label may not remember their own address, but this happens, especially if they do not need to give people their address very often and are not in the house. exercise.
While you are doing this, consider asking grandparents and other caregivers to use the address labels on their own – either over the phone or by posting your address at a known location in the home. That way, if a child ever needs to call their grandmother’s house in an emergency, they’ll know where to find the address if they remember it from memory.