Your home is a haven where you and your children should feel safe and secure. As a single parent, you may feel worried about the sole responsibility you carry to ensure the safety of your home. There are a number of ways you can increase your home security, with the inclusion of essential tools, security systems, safety practices and preparedness. Here are the best ways you should empower yourself to handle any security situation within your home:

Lighting

Brighten the outdoor perimeter of your house with motion detection flood lights. The lights will sense movement of any sort and illuminate any visitors or intruders, in the dark night. Make sure you place lights on all sides of your house, rather than just near the entrances. You can also illuminate the paths around your house or your gardens with lights. This is a nice landscape design touch and will also create more visibility around the exterior of your home. The addition of outdoor lighting will deter intruders and will provide you with visible reassurance. If you have a two-story home, purchase light timers for both stories. A light timer will make it look as though someone is actively in your house and will deter any burglars.

Cameras

Equip your home with security cameras, so you can see everything that occurs in and around your home. Place cameras near the exterior entrances and within the main rooms in your home. For extra assurance that your little one has eyes on them, at all times, place a camera in his or her nursery or room. The Lorex WiFi security cameras connect the monitoring system to a wireless network, which lets you watch security footage of your house from your smartphone. The cameras are weather durable, vandal resistant, equipped with night vision and record 25 frames-per-second.

Security Standards

Make sure you always keep your doors and windows locked, even when you are home. Also keep your blinds and curtains shut for privacy and protection. Utilize a home security system, while you are asleep or out of the house. Ackerman can help provide customized home security systems that will give you peace of mind. You can control your home from your smartphone or web-enabled device, which allows you to lock your doors, arm your security system and receive security notifications in the event of an intrusion. Create a neighborhood watch, within your community, so you have security support. Neighborhood watch programs deter criminal activity and keep everyone aware of safety threats.

Emergency Training

Create a break-in plan, for yourself, so you can quickly respond to a home intrusion. Lay out the safest spots in the house and the measures you could take to protect yourself from an intruder. You could make your child’s room the safekeep of the home, where you keep an emergency telephone, gear for protection and tablet that will help you set off your security alarm. Also, equip yourself with self defense knowledge. Take a self defense class that will teach you how you can effectively defend yourself from an attacker. Classes are generally offered through community centers or at a local martial arts instruction center.

Be safe!