What prompted you to get involved with Safekids? It was a great opportunity for me as a new mum wanting to learn more about this job of parenting and to support Dave. Not to mention preventing child injury just being a cool thing for the whole family to get involved in. Did you take much convincing to come on board with this? Not really. And Dave would have been quick to change my mind if I’d had any doubts. Having the cameras around has taken a bit of getting used to. What’s it like being the mother of boys? Fun, exhausting fun. But we’re pretty organised and like being on top of what we’re all doing. The data tells us boys tend to have more injuries than girls – why do you think that is? Perhaps some natural inclination to take more physical risks, it must have something to do with that or what we grown-ups are suggesting to them without really knowing it. Q&AWITH; KOREEN LETELE Over the last three months Koreen and her husband Dave and their three children have been delivering child injury prevention message through Safekids Aotearoa’s Facebook page. Koreen’s experience as a new mother is giving Safekids new connections and new insight. She and Dave have a presence and style that has helped Safekids reach more than 40,000 people in the three months it has run ‘Safety Tips with Buttabean’. HOW COMMON IS COMMON SENSE? “Not very, but maybe it just takes a moment... check out the information Safekids has to offer and share it around.” safekids news | September 2018 ISSUE No 80 11