Driveway Safety

[5 Little Monkeys]

I haven't heard of this incident but wow, so sad!! is the child okay?

In my contract, I specify that only one vehicle (plus mine) can be in the front and if it's full, they must park in our backlane spots (we live on a provincial road so no parking on the street is allowed). I put this in place just so that a parent wasn't holding up another in case they had somewhere to be...never even thought of the safety aspect if it but it's a valid concern!!

Thankfully, from what I've seen, parents with multiple children put them in the vehicle at same time and than buckle them in. This is how I do it as well on field trips. It just seems silly to me to have children out of the vehicle when your inside it buckling up others. When I unload, I unbuckle them all first and than get them out. If I do have children out of the vehicle waiting, they MUST place one hand on the car and they can not let go! There's always the potential for an accident but hopefully this decreases that chance a little bit!