The Safety Nest Home Alone · ages 9 to 12

For kids 9 to 12 and the parents deciding they are ready

Ready to be home alone. Actually ready.

A workbook for the plan, an app for the practice, and a free pair of pages you can print tonight.

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★ 5.0 on the App Store

Selected for the ATS Hub Ideas Challenge Discovery Phase, funded by the Institute of Education Sciences

Start with two free pages

The emergency contacts sheet and the house rules page from the Home Alone Safety Workbook. Print them, fill them in together tonight, and put the contacts sheet on the fridge. Ten minutes, one real win.

Both download straight from the page, with no email required.

Emergency contacts sheet House rules page

Both, plus the rest, live on the free pages.

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The Home Alone Readiness Workbook

Thirteen printable pages, nine short sections, filled out together on a calm afternoon. It ends with the Ready & Steady certificate, signed by both of you. A plan made on a calm afternoon beats a decision made in a scary moment.

  • The readiness check and the family rules
  • The fridge emergency sheet and the fire escape plan
  • Word for word scripts for the door and the phone
  • Storm rules, kitchen rules, a plan for scared and bored
  • First aid and the Ready & Steady certificate

$19.99 · printable PDF · instant download

Get the workbook

Prefer a real book? The paperback edition and our other family planners are on Amazon.

The Safety Nest: Home Alone. Now on the App Store.

The workbook is the plan on paper. The app is the practice: choice based missions where kids rehearse the knock at the door, the smoke alarm, the storm, and more, one calm decision at a time. The core skill is free forever. Membership adds five more skills and a monthly mission pack for $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year, with a 7 day free trial.

Private by design. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Everything stays on the device.

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