Alison, I think if I turned my own smoke detector on in the middle of the night and tried to get out of my house in a minute, it would freak ME out, much less a two-year-old!
Would it help somewhat to just practice in the daytime how long it takes you to both get out of bed, get the baby out of the crib and get outside? In the daytime, the sound might not scare the baby as much. And to plan what you would do if the hallway was blocked, etc?
This page from KidsHealth.org seems to focus on kids once they are in actual beds of their own -- it says that kids will often try to hide from a fire, under their bed or in the closet. So at the age where they are in a bed of their own that they can get out of on their own, they need to know where they are supposed to go if they ever hear that sound, just like at school:
And here's an interesting experiment that was done by the National Fire and Protection agency and a Minneapolis TV station with four families, all of whom had children:
http://www.homefiredrill.org/400words.htm
It'll be interesting to see what other families with young children do in this regard.
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Alison, I think if I turned my own smoke detector on in the middle of the night and tried to get out of my house in a minute, it would freak ME out, much less a two-year-old!
Would it help somewhat to just practice in the daytime how long it takes you to both get out of bed, get the baby out of the crib and get outside? In the daytime, the sound might not scare the baby as much. And to plan what you would do if the hallway was blocked, etc?
This page from KidsHealth.org seems to focus on kids once they are in actual beds of their own -- it says that kids will often try to hide from a fire, under their bed or in the closet. So at the age where they are in a bed of their own that they can get out of on their own, they need to know where they are supposed to go if they ever hear that sound, just like at school:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/home/fire.html
And here's an interesting experiment that was done by the National Fire and Protection agency and a Minneapolis TV station with four families, all of whom had children:
http://www.homefiredrill.org/400words.htm
It'll be interesting to see what other families with young children do in this regard.
March 6, 2009 - 10:13amThis Comment
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