Help A Child With A Neck Lanyard
You don’t generally think of neck lanyards and children going together since lanyards are typically found in corporate environments or at conferences. However lanyards make a good way to securely give a child a key and not worry about the key getting lost. Young children seem to have difficulty in keeping track of things, not usually because they aren’t responsible, but because children are normally more into action and not thought and don’t realize when they have lost things until well after the fact.
A lanyard that a child wears around his neck would decrease the chance that a needed key would get lost because it’s securely held to the lanyard. Lanyards have several methods for holding keys securely and a couple of good ones are a split ring that is exactly like a key ring that spreads apart to install the key and then the key slips around the ring until it is held fast. The split ring itself is held to the lanyard via a small loop of lanyard that is then sewn together or fastened with a metal clip. Unless the entire lanyard assemble is lost the key isn’t going to go anywhere the lanyard doesn’t go.
Another method is a snap-hook. Many snap-hooks are too stiff for a child to operate so once the key is snapped on by an adult; the child is not going to be able to remove it without help. A snap-hook works well for holding keys that need to be shared among several children, as the ease with which an adult can remove the key makes it easy to share it between several different lanyards.
It is the nature of children to be careless and not worry about keeping track of things as they have better things in mind. Playing with their friends, riding bikes and swinging at the park fill their minds. Help them learn responsibility by making it an effort to lose important items. Hang them from a neck lanyard.
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