Child Safety at Home: How to Prevent Common Accidents
We would all say we stand for child safety. Yet every year, the CDC[1] tells us, approximately 12,000 children and young adults, ages 1 to 19 years, die from accidental injuries. Thousands more are sent to emergency rooms with other injuries. For parents, those numbers are staggering. What can we do to keep our children from becoming one of those sad statistics? Let’s look at how and where … [Read More...]
Car Seat Safety: How Much Do You Know?
Do you know how to safely use your child’s car seat? That one parenting skill can save her life. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)[1], car seats saved the lives of 328 children ages 4 years and younger in 2016. In addition, compared to using seat belts alone, properly used child safety restraints reduce the risk of injury to children by 71 - 82%. Those sound like good reasons … [Read More...]