Family With Young Children Pack

A calm, practical plan for babies, toddlers, school-age children and teens when normal life is interrupted.

A plan your whole family can practice, for every age group.

TWO PDFs IN ONE DOWNLOAD

- Quick Pack (11 pages): the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in. Open this one first.

- Full Guide (53 pages): the reasons, worked examples and sources.

WHAT YOU GET

- A family plan with roles, two meeting places and a simple script children can follow.

- Practice drills you can run in about 10 minutes without frightening anyone.

- Baby guidance on feeds without power, safe preparation, safe sleep in cold or heat and diapers, with a baby go bag table.

- Toddler guidance on supervision, comfort items and disrupted toilet training, with a toddler go bag table.

- School and childcare planning, including reunification, pickup lists, memorized numbers and real roles for teens, with age-banded kit tables.

- Plain guidance on keeping children warm or cool safely, with a carbon monoxide and fire warning, plus water and food for children.

- A children's medicines information sheet that sends dosing questions to your child's doctor or pharmacist, not to guesswork, and a 'get help right now' table.

- What to say to children about disasters, by age, how to limit the news, and activity and routine ideas for an outage.

- Leaving home with children: car seats, floodwater safety, keeping together, shelters, and pets and children.

- After the event: recovery, stress, and when to ask for help.

- Printable forms: a wallet-size Child ID Card, a full-page Child Information Sheet, a Pickup Authorization sheet and a Family Contact sheet. The card is for a pocket or backpack. The sheet is for your go bag, and for school or a trusted adult.

- Sources listed at the end, so you can check any number for yourself.

WHO IT IS FOR

Parents, grandparents and other caregivers of babies, toddlers, school-age children and teens.

GOOD TO KNOW

- Print it, or keep it on your phone or tablet. US Letter, prints on A4 too.

- Digital download: read the free sample first. We cannot refund a guide once it has been downloaded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email hello@afternormal.co and we will fix it, replace it or refund you.

- General educational information, not medical, legal or emergency advice.