Designed to help parents make good choices concerning farm-related activities that their children participate in and warns of the most serious risks farm children face. This video depicts several scenes in which school-aged children are left home alone on the farm or in a rural setting. This safety film covers a wide variety of hazards encountered by youngsters in both town and country. A puppet named Sawdust learns these safety lessons by pretending to be a real boy. The farm setting for the story makes the film appropriate for rural children.
Topics covered include playground and bicycle safety, livestock and other farm hazards.
A farm safety film developed especially for families with small children. It presents the case of a young boy and a new tractor that ends tragically.