Halloween Safety Apps
10 iPhone Apps to Keep Kids Safe While Out Trick-or-Treating!
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Keep your kids safe on Halloween! The holiday is a childhood favorite filled with costumes, loot bags, and tons of candy. But before heading out on your evening adventure, download a few safety apps to your phone to ensure everyone has a safe and successful trick-or-treating adventure.
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1 Family GPS Tracker and Safety Center
The Life360 — Family Locator, Messaging and More (free) allows mamas to track their location at any given time. The app also offers a monitoring service to identify sex offenders who may be living in the area.
2 Kids ID Lite
Create an electronic identification for your child before heading out to the ghoulish night's activities. With Kids ID Lite (free), all of your little one's vital information will be in one place. The app allows parents to send the information directly to law enforcement agencies if a child goes missing and includes a checklist of actions to follow.
3 Trick or Tracker
Available only for Android phones now, Trick or Tracker (free) allows parents to keep track of multiple kids through their smartphones. The app offers several methods for checking in, such as "on demand" — when a parent wants to know where they are now — and preset times, when the child's phone is alerted that the parent is checking in. On the kids' side of things, there is a simple "distress message" button that can be pressed if they find themselves in trouble.
4 Pocket First Aid & CPR From the American Heart Association
That lollipop may have looked safe in its wrapper, but hard candy can easily lodge in a tot's throat. The Pocket First Aid & CPR From the American Heart Association ($2) features the latest up-to-date emergency information including CPR and first aid for choking, scrapes, and more serious injuries.
5 Offender Locator
Keep your kids away from predators with the Offender Locator app ($1). By compiling data from all 50 states' Registered Offender Databases, the app allows mamas to keep their kids safe on what can be a frightful night!
6 Ghost Radar
There will be plenty of costumed ghosts running through the neighborhood on Halloween, but what about real ones? The Ghost Radar app (free) will alert moms to any possible paranormal activity.
7 The Weather Channel
Not sure if the weather will hold up until your neighborhood's 5 p.m. trick-or-treating begins? The Weather Channel app (free) can give Mama hour-by-hour forecasts.
8 Smart-ICE4family
Keep your family's medical history in one easy-to-read location with the Smart-ICE4family app ($3). In addition to being a filing center for the information, the app will also dial emergency services, send a current location to EMS, and email doctors a signed HIPAA privacy statement.
9 FDA Recalls
Before digging into that loot bag full of sugary sweetness, check the FDA Recalls app ($1) to make sure the goodies really are safe!
