How much do you trust your children? How much do you want to trust them?

Before you answer either question, consider the following:  a house guarded, in part, by a security alarm system is only as safe as every mature member of your family allows it to be.  If, for example, you’ve recently installed a home security system but haven’t instructed your children on its use, do you really safe as you thought you might?  Probably not.

That’s precisely why you need to instruct your children on how to arm and disarm the system, especially if one or more of them arrive home ahead of working adults are left home by themselves even for short periods of time.

Here are a couple of additional reasons why children should be taught how to work home security systems:

Fosters Mutual Trust

If your kids are like most, they want to be trusted and feel a closer connection to home and family when they are.  Giving them your home security password and having them practice arming and disarming the system under your supervision is vital to that process. By demonstrating your trust and confidence in them, you’ll be earning even more of theirs in return. Experience, after all, is still the best teacher.

Children become security conscious

Is there a part of you that thinks telling your kids about the importance of and reasons for having a home security system is to rob them of some measure of their childhood innocence?  If so, consider the following: school age kids already know plenty about the world around them, and probably more than you realize.  And ultimately, isn’t it far better to have them aware of security concerns than to expose them to the dangers that benign ignorance can cause? The point is, teach them to be aware without being afraid, and that having a home security system gives everyone another reason to feel secure.

Prevents False Alarms

What if you were to set your security alarm and then leave the house not expecting your children to arrive home before you, but one or more of them does without knowing how to disarm the system.  And now you have one more very good reason to give them that added trust and responsibility.

Here at Now Security Systems, your family’s safety and security mean the world to us. That’s why we invite you to contact us if you’re not confident that your current security system is completely adequate for your current needs, or if you don’t have one at all.  We’ll come to your home, size up your needs, explain your options and give you a free new system quote, complete with our 24/7 monitoring services.  You’ll be safer yet when you choose Now Security Systems.