Why Should Road Safety Education Be an Integral Part of a Kids’ Learning? | IRTE
Road safety education should be an integral part of a growing child’s education, be it at home or school. It is vital to drive home the importance of obeying traffic rules and regulations early in life.
Teaching kids and young adults the basic traffic rules and inculcating in them a habit of road safety will help in driving a positive change in the society at large.
Importance of Road Safety Education for Children
We cannot accompany our kids everywhere and must teach them to become alert and be conscious of their safety. One such area where we should educate them is road safety.
From a young age itself, we must explain the importance of a few fundamental road safety rules to them.
Sadly, kids can longer cycle without a care on the streets. The increasing number of cars, buses, scooters, cycles, motorcycles, people etc. has led to jams, errant driving and an unsafe road environment. Poor road traffic management, roads in a dismal state, lack of proper signage are crucial reasons to teach our kids road safety.
This is where road safety education comes in. It makes the children aware of the importance of safety on the roads from a young age. Parents, schools, community outreach programmes, media and peers are all critical partners in teaching road safety rules to children. They are taught the traffic rules and other lessons on road safety according to their age and understanding level.
Young kids are impressionable and tend to look up to their parents and teachers for guidance. However, just bookish teachings won’t do, and there should be interesting ways to teach these to the kids. Most important, kids learn the best by observing. So, as adults, we must ‘lead by example’.
Road safety is our collective social responsibility, and right, to ensure that our roads are safe, both for us, and our fellow road users.
Author: Rohina Chawla
Teaching kids and young adults the basic traffic rules and inculcating in them a habit of road safety will help in driving a positive change in the society at large.
Importance of Road Safety Education for Children
We cannot accompany our kids everywhere and must teach them to become alert and be conscious of their safety. One such area where we should educate them is road safety.
From a young age itself, we must explain the importance of a few fundamental road safety rules to them.
Sadly, kids can longer cycle without a care on the streets. The increasing number of cars, buses, scooters, cycles, motorcycles, people etc. has led to jams, errant driving and an unsafe road environment. Poor road traffic management, roads in a dismal state, lack of proper signage are crucial reasons to teach our kids road safety.
This is where road safety education comes in. It makes the children aware of the importance of safety on the roads from a young age. Parents, schools, community outreach programmes, media and peers are all critical partners in teaching road safety rules to children. They are taught the traffic rules and other lessons on road safety according to their age and understanding level.
Young kids are impressionable and tend to look up to their parents and teachers for guidance. However, just bookish teachings won’t do, and there should be interesting ways to teach these to the kids. Most important, kids learn the best by observing. So, as adults, we must ‘lead by example’.
Road safety is our collective social responsibility, and right, to ensure that our roads are safe, both for us, and our fellow road users.
Author: Rohina Chawla
Always loves your posts. Spreading awareness and creating a sense of responsibility among our careless generation.
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