Why Texting while Walking is Dangerous and How can you Prevent it

Would you like a call from an unknown caller saying, “Your child’s just got hit by a car, he’s bleeding profusely… we are taking him to hospital…” or a neighbor running toward you to give the same bad news?

Unless you’re a hard-hearted savage you aren’t going to like any such incidents happening in the real. Of course, you love your child, don’t you?

Then, why aren’t you checking if your child is walking through the roads the safe way or is getting into unsafe ways?  The accident cases involving kids are increasing almost exponentially. Kids are exceptionally accidental in the way they move through the city roads. They don’t need cars for being accidental. Even a kid on feet is unsafe. Yes, you’ve read it right.

The main reason behind such accidental handling of daily journeying through the city roads is the carelessness with which most kids take to the roads and their addictive digital device usage. Even if it is to take just a few simple turns and walk a couple of straight roads from home to school/college; kids keep texting all through the time.

You can always find a kid enjoying music right in the middle of some congested road just the way you enjoy at home. With earphones inside the ears, you simply can’t expect a kid to listen to all the noises around them. Vehicles easily pass by blowing horn one after another, but kids just don’t care to bother. In fact, they don’t even care to give way to the vehicles.

Just like non-stop music listening habits; texting while walking is another dangerous mix-and-match which is leading kids to life-threatening accidents.

Some of the dangerous consequences of this crazy habit include –

Crashing into people and things in front

An average child text chatting over the phone almost forgets that he has to look in the front and not at the mobile screen all the time. It is an obvious to crash into anything when you aren’t looking in the front. Kids busy with messaging often crash into people and things in front. This gets dangerous when there’s a vehicle rushing from the other side of the road and the child doesn’t pay any heeds to it.

Getting run over or hit by vehicles

Kids not just turn blind to the vehicles in their front but also turn complete deaf to people asking them to get side and even to the people inside the vehicles badly blowing horn. Sadly, this kind of attitude puts them into fatal situation. And sometimes they just get hit or run over by vehicles that they don’t take care to check.

Falling into uncovered sewerage systems

Funny but true, there have been hundreds of such silly accidents in which a mobile phone user has either fallen from a bridge or slipped into an open or uncovered sewerage system or manhole. It is not just an embarrassing experience but also dangerous as one can get stuck into the sewer or get injured.

Can parents help in this?

Yeah, they can. And they should. If you are a parent reading this on your screen and you have no idea about how your child’s texting habits are; you also need to do something to know your child’s texting habits and to inculcate safer digital device practice in your child.

First, explain your child how the dangers are real things and they can really take place in anyone’s life. The word “explain” means you got to hit it strong into your child’s head. Use related data; examples of such incidents taking place around you; news reports; videos; and so on for explaining it well.

Second, be safe while you walk and avoid texting, calling or using your cell phone in any other way as your child is going to learn from you.

Third, watch over your child’s texting and cell phone usage habits. Track kids text message by setting up parental monitoring software on your child’s cell phone. This will let you know whenever your child sends or receives a text message. Now, if your child has just walked out of home and your tracking software says that your child has just sent a message, you know that your child is texting while walking.

The latest cell phone monitoring systems let you track the location of your child; this will be further helpful in making out if your child is texting when in motion as your software will help you locate your child’s complete route history. So, you’ll know if your child was in motion while texting or had stopped for a while at some safe place.