Safe Kids
Hammer TV offers safety tips as ‘reality TV’ with meaning, message
Each day, Americans are “hammered” with visual messages on TV and the Internet. But how many are trite, and how many are truly useful? Do we really need to know whose kitty can play the piano? Or do we need to know which defective drugs or injury accidents threaten our loved ones?
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Parents can help teens tackle driving distractions, reduce car accidents
With a national summit on distracted drivers set for this week, studies due today from the journal Pediatrics show that parents can have a huge effect on how effective — or distracted — their teen drivers become.
Conducted by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA and given funding by State Farm Insurance Co., the studies show that [...]
Don’t let playground child safety slide; tips to guard against hazards
Kids and play — an unbeatable combo. But not always. Sometimes, playground safety hazards can turn a carefree day into a traumatic trip to an emergency room.
Safe Kids USA, an organization supported by Jim Adler, founder of Jim S. Adler & Associates, knows the numbers. Safe Kids finds that 200,000 children yearly wind up in [...]
July 4th traffic deaths, drownings show liberty needs responsibility
July 4th weekend is a time to celebrate America’s liberty. Yet our liberties don’t include driving while impaired, a misjudgment which claims almost one third of all traffic deaths yearly, and an even higher 40 per cent of all traffic deaths on the mid-summer holiday.
Alcohol abuse by drivers crosses all geographic and socioeconomic lines. But [...]
Non-crash car accident child deaths must end
Enough is enough. Too many children have died when parents or guardians left them unattended in cars. As summer’s heat rises, such neglect, in effect, is a death sentence. Wake up, America, and don’t ever leave small children behind in a hot vehicle, which one emergency physician says is like “leaving your child in a [...]
Tyson daughter’s death begs for child safety resolve
Again, tragedy has struck down an innocent child — and again, the tragedy was avoidable. Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter has died, a day after strangling on a cord left dangling from a treadmill at her Phoenix, AZ home.
The treadmill wasn’t turned on, but clearly the cord was still dangerous. Normally such [...]
Car accident tragedies kill more kids than any other danger
Most parents are extremely protective of kids. But anytime they take them in a car or other vehicle they’re exposing them to the No. 1 killer of America’s children. Indeed, child safety advocate group Safe Kids USA reports that car accidents and other motor vehicle mishaps are the chief cause of child deaths between ages [...]
Even a car seat may not be enough protection
The tragic news of an infant death in a stalled car on the Galveston Causeway Sunday lends a sobering reminder that simply doing the right thing by buying and using protective car seats may not always be enough. Car seat safety is no guarantee of survival.
Child safety seats are far more common today, now that [...]
