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The first twenty minutes, and the rest of the afternoon
Badge 3 of 7 · At Home Safety
Lesson 3 of 6 · Step 16 of 43 in the course
Watch, then decide. The next step only opens when you have it right.
Step 1 of 3
Step 1 of 3
The first twenty minutes
- Lock the door. Message your parent. Something to eat and drink. Sit down.
- A routine is boring on purpose. That is not a weakness of it — it is the entire point.
- Something you do without thinking still works on a day when you are upset, or tired, or something has just gone wrong.
Watch, then answer this
What makes a routine worth having?
Step 2 of 3
What is allowed, and what waits
- Every family draws this line differently, and that is fine — but it has to be drawn before you are standing in the kitchen deciding for yourself.
- Stove, oven, microwave, kettle, toaster — which of these, if any.
- Whether anybody can come over, whether you can go outside and how far, bath or shower, screens and for how long.
- Rooms or cupboards that are off limits.
Watch, then answer this
A friend turns up and wants to come in. What is the easiest thing to say?
Watch what happens
Then go back and pick again.
Step 3 of 3
Leaving the house again
- Pack what you need, and check you have your key.
- Message your parent that you are going, and where.
- Lock up behind you. The last thing is the same as the first thing.
Watch, then answer this
What is the last thing you do on the way out?
That is this lesson.
You watched it, you made the call yourself, and you got it right. That is the whole lesson — nothing here was read to pass.
Now do it
Off the screen, before you leave this page
Watching is not the same as being able to do it. Stand up and work through these. Nothing here is marked and nothing is sent anywhere — the ticks are yours.
Accessibility
Read what happens in each clip instead
Step 1 — The first twenty minutes. Door locked, message sent, milk and an apple, sat down. Deliberately uneventful, which is exactly the point.
Step 2 — Agreed in advance. A parent and child at a kitchen table going down a list together, ticking and crossing. The film is the conversation, not the rules — the whole point is that it happened before the afternoon in question.
Step 3 — Same rules, in reverse. Backpack packed, key checked, text sent saying where he is going, door locked. Ends on the lock, matching the opening beat of the lesson.
Every film on this page is narrated and carries a caption track, supplied as a sidecar and never burned into the picture.