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Kids in Control A Kid’s Guide To Being Responsible College of Agricultural Sciences • Cooperative Extension Table of Contents Part 1: Know The Rules 4 Part 2: Handling Emergencies 10 Part 3: Get It Together 18 Part 4: Keeping It Together 32 Part 5: Parent Pages 36 18 U.S.C. 707 A 4-H youth development program designed to build responsible behavior in youth who may care for themselves occasionally or daily. This publication was extensively revised and updated by Patricia Wells, extension associate, The Pennsylvania State University; and James E. Van Horn, Certified Family Life Educator, professor of rural sociology/family sociology, The Pennsylvania State University. Kids in Control was originally prepared by Janice Stoudnour and Amy Walters Klimas, Penn State Cooperative Extension agents in Bedford and Fulton Counties, and a parent- teacher advisory committee from the Saxton Area Elementary School. Portions of this publication were adapted for use in Pennsylvania from an Oregon State University Extension Service publication, Home Alone and Prepared, EM 8661 (March 1997, 36 pages), which contains materials adapted from University of Georgia, University of Illinois, and Iowa State University Extension publications. Original llustrations by Thomas Laird, Penn State Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences research, extension, and resident education programs are funded in part by Pennsylvania counties, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension Work, Acts of Congress May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Pennsylvania Legislature. T. R. Alter, Director of Cooperative Extension, The Pennsylvania State University. This publication is available in alternative media on request. The Pennsylvania State University is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to progr