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Holiday Safety Part 3: Essential Safety Rules for Kids! 🚨

The holidays should be filled with joy, not worry.

These three rules will help keep your kids safe and empower them to make smart choices:

✅ No closed doors – Keep everything open to foster trust and transparency.

✅ No secret-keeping – Surprises are fun, but secrets can be unsafe.

✅ No private screens without permission – Set boundaries to ensure online safety.

✨ When kids know the rules, they thrive in safe environments!

💬 Watch my SECRETS SAFETY MASTERCLASS here! 

One of the most essential safety skills your child should learn is the difference between secrets, privacy, and surprises. I mean, have you ever thought about it? Do you even know the difference? And more importantly, do your kids?

When I had my first child, I used to think I knew the difference, but it turns out I didn't. And that's okay because it's never too late to learn and educate ourselves as parents. Here's a little story to illustrate my point.

So, I have three kiddos, and when my oldest was potty training, I read somewhere that giving them a little treat, like a chocolate chip, every time they successfully used the potty could be a good idea. And let me tell you, it worked like a charm! But, of course, I didn't want the other two to feel left out or start asking for treats too. So, I told my child that we had to keep it a secret between us so that no one else would know about the chocolate chips.

Looking back, I realized that was a big mistake. Secrets aren't good...