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Show Halloween Safety Tips To ensure Halloween is a safe, as well as fun, holiday for your children, parental vigilance and neighborhood neigh-borhood cooperation are essential. Experts at M&MMARS, the leading confectionery company in the U.S. , offer these precautionary tips for the occasion : Make sure your neighborhood neigh-borhood is continuously supervised. Take turns with other parents keeping an eye on the block. Provide your children with a list of names and addresses where they can safely trick or treat and discourage visits to strangers' strang-ers' homes. Escort young children in particular from house to house. Encourage trick or treating during daylight hours. Allow your children to eat only the pre-packaged treats. Inspect even those to see that no one has tampered with the wrappers. wrap-pers. Discard all fruit, cookies and anything else that is unwrapped or homemade. home-made. Dress your children in light-colored costumes to protect them from nighttime night-time hazards, or attach reflector tape to visible parts of their clothing. And re-emphasize to them the importance of walking on the sidewalks and crossing the streets carefully. Heed these hints and a safe and pleasant Halloween can be in the bag. |