Child Safety: Top 5 Child Location Devices

If you do a lot of travelling with kids, especially young children, you should consider purchasing a child location device.  These child safety products can help you from keep track of your kids in a crowd and prevent them from being abducted.  Kids tend to wander off when you're not looking, and these child safety products could help you locate your child much faster in the event that your child is missing.

THE KID KEEPER CHILD SAFETY HARNESS: When you're out with your kids, it's difficult to keep your eyes on them at all times especially if you're in a crowd. That's where this child safety harness comes in. I know what you're thinking - "I don't want to put my child on a leash", but young children tend to wander and always manage to do so the moment you're distracted. This child safety harness helps to ensure your child's safety by keeping him or her with you at all times.

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MOMMY I'M HERE CHILD LOCATOR: This is one of my favorite child safety products. If you're worried about losing your child in a crowd, you should consider buying this inexpensive child locator. Just attach this child locator to your child's shoe, belt or clothing. Then keep a key chain transmitter in your purse or pocket. If you lose site of your child, just press the button on the child location device and a high-pitched beep will sound to lead you to your child. This child locator works at distances of up to 150 feet and even through concrete walls.

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HEALTH AND SAFETY PASSPORT: This child safety kit contains your child's picture, description, fingerprints, DNA sample, health and dental history, and emergency contacts. In the event that your child goes missing, you can give the authorities this "passport" that contains all the information they need to locate your child.

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IDENTAKEY: This is an outstanding and convenient child safety product to have when traveling with kids. It's similar to the Health and Safety Passport, however, this product stores all of your child's important information including photos, medical records and even fingerprint scans all on one tiny USB drive that you can keep on your key chain. This child safety product comes with built-in software that helps you gather and organize all your child's information. You can even use it to create ID cards and missing posters. Stores information for 6 to 8 family members - even pets.

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BRICKHOUSE CHILD LOCATOR: When traveling with kids, it is extremely important to be able to find them quickly if you lose them in a crowd. And the child safety locator from Brickhouse is well worth the money. This device is not a GPS child locator, but rather a homing device that leads you to your child if he wanders too far away. This child locator works by attaching a small homing tag to your child. Then the child locator alerts you the instant your child leaves the safety zone. The tracking device will beep, vibrate and visually lead you to your child. It even has an extra safety precaution that allows your child to press a Panic Button to alert you of an emergency. The Brickhouse child locator works at distances of up to 600 feet!

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CHILD SAFETY TIPS

• Keep children with you at all times while shopping.
• Accompany and supervise children when using public restrooms.
• Remind children to stay in the area where they became separated. Alternatively, you can plan a designated meeting spot ahead of time.
• Teach your children to look for people who can help if they are lost such as a uniformed security officer, salesperson or mother with children.