Wednesday, April 25, 2012

How to Keep Your Kids Safe Even When They are Home Alone

By Mark Mahaffey


There is no doubt about it: parenting is hard in our age of high crime. But what is a parent to do? When a family needs two incomes in order to make ends meet, it is likely that the children will be home alone at least occasionally, because both parents have their own work schedules to follow.

If you are a parent who finds himself in this situation, you surely want to do everything you can to keep your children as safe as possible while they are in the house by themselves. One of the best things you can do for your kids is to install a home alarm system.

Although anything could happen to children who are left alone at home, the biggest concerns for their safety are fire and burglary. If either of these things happens during the time that the children are without adult supervision, they could get hurt badly.

However, a home alarm system can help you avoid disaster. If you install a home alarm system with monitoring service, then your children will never be truly home alone: they will have other adults watching over the house, making sure that nothing is amiss.

If a fire breaks out in the home, the monitoring service will get the alert and can have the fire department on the way to the house quickly-maybe even before the children realize the danger! Likewise, if an intruder trips the alarm while attempting to enter the home, a siren will alert not only the neighbors, but the monitoring company will also know, and can call the police.

Consider how wonderful it would be to know that other people are watching out for your children, even when you cannot be at home with them!




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