Home & Safe
Everyone deserves to feel safe where they live.
Home & Safe is a show about how you actually get there. If you own a house, rent an apartment, run a shop, or are just tired of wondering whether that package will still be on the porch when you get home, this is for you.
One clear question per episode, answered in plain language. Because feeling safe at home isn't a luxury, and it shouldn't take an expert to arrange it.
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Home & Safe
Is Your Kid Ready to Be Home Alone?
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It's 3:12 on a Tuesday in late August. Your sixth grader is coming up the driveway with her own key, and nobody else is home for another two and a half hours. For 7.7 million American kids, that's just what an afternoon looks like.
In the first episode of Home Safe, host Mackenzie takes the after-school plan most families improvise in four minutes on a Sunday night and rebuilds it on purpose — without the hand-wringing.
Covered in this episode:
- Why there's no legal age that answers "is my kid ready" — and what HHS and Safe Sitter look at instead
- The three readiness buckets: your child, the circumstances, the safety skills
- Five house rules that actually matter, including the phone script and the delivery-driver problem
- The number most parents don't have programmed
- How a smart lock and one entry camera answer the only question you're really asking between 3:00 and 3:20 — and why every setup should be shown to the kids on purpose, out in the open
- A realistic two-week rollout, plus why the readiness answer moves again by October
Sources named throughout: Afterschool Alliance's America After 3 PM, the Child Welfare Information Gateway (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services), Safe Sitter, and Illinois's parent resource.
Home Safe is from Deluxe CCTV — the practical side of keeping a home and the people in it safe. deluxecctv.com