All aboard Train of FORT. It’s Road Safety Week. Turns out the trick to teaching kids road sense isn't dragging them across the street. It's making the street worth watching.

Ask

Which traffic light are you?

Big feelings are clumsy things to describe. But everyone knows what a red light means. Framing emotion as a street signal gives your child a shortcut to saying the unsayable and you a quicker route to hearing it.

Create

Place a big sheet of paper on the floor, or just tape a few together. Cut roads from scraps and watch the neighbourhood unfurl: main streets, side alleys, zebra crossings. Add some road markings too.

Next add houses, shops and iconic landmarks. Your home, the school, the corner shop, the park where five more minutes means an hour.

Raid the toy box to bring it to life: blocks become houses, coasters into roundabouts, and toy cars take a test drive.

Just watch. Once they draw their own zebra crossing, they’ll start noticing them everywhere.

Explore

Introducing the Car Colour Census!

Head outside. Set a timer. Place your bets.
Tally every car colour that crosses your path.

House rules: double points for yellow.

Reflect

Notice how often we hustle our kids across the road. Wrist gripped, "quick, quick." But rushing teaches urgency; slowing down teaches awareness.

Treat every crossing as an intentional pause, not a race against traffic. The street becomes a lesson only when you stop sprinting past it.

Those bumpy yellow slabs at every crossing? They're called Tenji blocks — invented in 1965 by Seiichi Miyake so a friend could navigate the city safely. A quiet piece of thoughtful design, working for all of us every single day.

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