Got your back

When dealing with teaching the boys about road safety in and out of the car, we usually take on the method of making them overly cautious to the point of being very scared of moving cars. Like crossing the road holding our hand or at least being close to us, or making sure they have their seatbelts on otherwise we tell them they can get very badly hurt or even die. We would much rather them be scared of that than what can happen with young kids and cars, its horrible to even think about it. This scare tactic has definatley worked with seatbelts as demonstrated the other day.

I was driving the boys to the shops and half way there on a busy 80km/h road Sam yells out "Ooorhhh Dad! Lucas has his seatbelt undone!" I turned around to see him trying to climb over his seat into the back with only one strap done up. In the mean time William was trying to reach him from the front seat and pull him back down whilst demanding I pull over and fix it! and Jacob was getting so panicky and cross it sounded like he was going to burst into tears telling Lucas to sit back down. I found a safe place to pull over and strap him back in, to mine and most definatley the boys relief. It was so cute to see how much they care about Lucas's safety, although Lucas couldnt have cared less, he actually thought it was all very funny. Much more scaring to come for him I think!

The boys will often bicker, argue and fight, but when it comes down to it hopefully they will always have each others back and make sure they each remain safe.