{"id":468,"date":"2014-10-31T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/?p=468"},"modified":"2014-10-31T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T12:52:39","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2014\/10\/31\/halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main\" class=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"post-1056\" class=\"post-1056 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-au-pair-tips tag-acton tag-au-pair-in-america tag-fall tag-halloween tag-lexington tag-melinda-brooks tag-october-events tag-patti-estabrook tag-sudbury\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h1><strong>Goblins and Ghosts stay safe!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/10\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1135\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/10\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"141\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Make sure to inspect the children\u2019s Trick Or Treat candy to make sure everything is in a sealed wrapper and appears safe.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Small children should not eat hard candy because of chocking.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Children should be supervised when they go Trick-or-Treating.\u00a0 Many parents will come home early from work on the day to go with their children.\u00a0 Check with Host Parents about this.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Halloween Safety Tips for Drivers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Halloween is a wonderful holiday, but because of increased foot traffic and that Trick-or-Treaters are out at night, the potential for automobile related accidents with young pedestrians increases four times on this night according to a CDC (Center for Disease Control) study.<\/p>\n<h3>Streets are literally crawling with all sorts of witches, ghosts, goblins, vampires and all other sorts of costumed people. This makes for added responsibility for drivers to make sure that they drive safer than normal.<\/h3>\n<p>In many areas, people drive their kids into subdivisions and let them out to walk from house to house. Usually the parent follows behind in the car. This can cause traffic jams in small areas and much confusion as kids dart between cars on the streets going from house to house. A driver is already distracted because they are trying to keep an eye on their own kids and usually aren\u2019t paying attention to much else.<\/p>\n<p>Children and adults tend to be preoccupied and may not pay as much attention to safety as they should. They may not see your vehicle or just assume that you see them automatically.<strong> Stay on the defensive<\/strong> and you shouldn\u2019t have a problem while driving on Halloween night<\/p>\n<p>*<strong> Don\u2019t use a cell phone <\/strong>or other electronic device while driving on Halloween night. You shouldn\u2019t be doing this anyway, the rate of cell phone related auto accidents has jumped dramatically since the use of cell phones and texting has risen so high. Some states have already made laws concerning this and others are working on it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Make sure your child carries a flashlight<\/strong>, glow stick or has reflective tape on their costume to make them more visible to cars. Left them know if they carry a flash light to never shine itin the eyes of a driver. This can cause blindness on the drivers part temporarily and they may not see\u00a0 your child<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goblins and Ghosts stay safe! <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/10\/images.jpeg\"><\/a> Make sure to inspect the children\u2019s Trick Or Treat candy to make sure everything is in a sealed wrapper and appears safe. Small children should not eat hard candy because of chocking. Children should be supervised when they go Trick-or-Treating.\u00a0 Many parents will come home early from work  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2014\/10\/31\/halloween\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,94,126,127,175,218],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-au-pair-tips","tag-au-pair","tag-halloween","tag-kids","tag-kids-safety","tag-safety","tag-safety-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Halloween - Bettina Velona&#039;s Au Pair Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2014\/10\/31\/halloween\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Halloween - Bettina Velona&#039;s Au Pair Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Goblins and Ghosts stay safe! 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