Explain To Your Kids How To Use A Dumpster

If your apartment complex, home or business uses a dumpster, it is vital that you teach your children how to be safe while around a dumpster. Here are a few things you need to teach your children in order to ensure that they know how to act safely when near a dumpster.

Explain To Your Kids How To Use A Dumpster

First, you need to explain to your kids the purpose of a dumpster. Explain to your children that a dumpster is basically a big trash can that businesses use for all the trash that they generate and is often used to clean up big projects where a lot of trash is created.

Second, explain that how trash should added to the dumpster. Explain to them how all the trash cannot just be piled up on one side, it has to be spread out over the length of the dumpster. Also, emphasize to your kids that you have to be tall enough to see into the dumpster in order to know where to put the trash so that its evenly distributed throughout the dumpster. …show more content…
After they answer, follow up and ask if they think they should throw trash into the dumpster based on what they know. Next, ask your kids what they should do if they want to throw something into the dumpster. If your kids struggle with the answer, let them know they should ask an adult for help. These questions your kids think through and apply what you are telling them.

Third, explain to your children that dumpsters should never be so filled with trash that you can see it over the top of the dumpster. Let them know that is unsafe and if they see a dumpster with trash spilling out the top, they should stay away because the trash could fall out and the dumpster could be unstable.

Teaching your kids how to use a dumpster will help them understand that a dumpster is not a toy or something for them to play with. It will help your kids appropriately categorize what a dumpster's purpose