Baby Safety
Baby Proofing Your Home
Before your little one begins to crawl, it is important to baby proof your home. Babies and toddlers learn by touching and tasting everything in the world around them, so making your home safe from hazards is crucial.
First,...
Baby Crib Safety Standards
Choosing a crib for your baby is the first of many important decisions you
will make concerning your child. While shopping for the crib may be fun and
exciting it should also be taken quite seriously. Each year many childr...
Car Seat Baby Sitter
When is it okay to leave your kids in the car when running errands? When you're just running in the store for a jug of milk? Picking another child up at preschool? When they've fallen asleep and they haven't napped yet? These ar...
Baby Proofing: Hidden Dangers
On New Year's Eve, I attended a party at the home of one of my friends. She and her husband had recently moved into this home and was eager to give me the grand tour. As she led me up the stairs and into her young son's room, I ...
Household Choking Dangers
Safety Pin Fever
Imagine my surprise one day when I looked into the mouth of a coughing four-month-old boy and found an open safety pin stuck in the back of his throat! When his parents brought him to the ER for cold symptoms, t...
Infant Car seat Carriers - A Practical Purchase for the Busy Parent
Infant car seat carriers are a wonderful convenience. They are affordable, can go anywhere and can be used in so many ways. Use them to carry your baby from the house to the car, then the supermarket, without disturbing your pre...
Safe Swimming for Infants and Tots
Swimming is the number one family recreational sport -- a year round activity enjoyed by every member of the family regardless of age. Unfortunately, drowning is also the leading cause of accidental death of children under age f...
Car Seat Safety
Everytime I load my three sons, ages 5, 3 ½ and 2 in the car, I feel like I am engaging in a ritualistic form of exercise. Since I do not have the luxury of a minivan or some other mega-vehicle, I have one car seat and two booste...
Have a Safe and Happy Summer Summer Safety Tips
Summertime is always such a special time. The warm, long days beckon us outside to seek adventures long hidden by the dreary winter season. The living is free and easy -- or so it seems. Despite the carefree lifestyle summer seem...
Preventing Drowning
Did you know that drowning is the second most common cause of death from injury for children aged 1 to 4 years old? Children under four are at risk beause they move very quickly but are not always aware of the dangers around them....
