Child Safety by Boy (reflections from an 11 year old)

Article by Boy

 

Child safety is a very important piece of the human life. If we didn’t have child safety the world would be a very bad place. But, thanks to people who wanted their kids SAFE they made a Bill of Rights for children. This Bill of Rights tells us what we should be working towards to keep all children in the world safe.

My view of child safety is not only keeping all kids safe but also helping children in need of help. Usually the kid doesn’t talk much if there is something wrong. It is up to adults to see if kids need help. I need my parents to make my world safe and look out for me.

Child safety is different to child abuse. Child safety is about keeping kids safe from badness and harmful things. Child abuse is about adults doing bad things to kids. Child safety stops adults from hurting kids and doing bad things to them and it also stops bad things in the environment from mucking up a kids life – like real bad sunburn that makes sun cancer or not eating enough fruit and vegetables.

I think the world would be a better place with out drunks, drugs, wars, homelessness, poverty and weirdoes on the internet. If I had one wish in terms of child safety it would be no bad things happening to kids (and more chocolate).