Should you get an ATV for your child? My opinion: NO!
I remember when I was a kid, whenever my parents would get out of the car, I’d scoot over into the driver’s seat, put my hands on the wheel and pretend I was driving — with appropriate sound effects, of course.
Almost all children dream of what it would be like to drive a car like [...]
Fewer Drunk Drivers?
I read a headline this morning that drunken driving was down in Maryland. It turns out that the headline was citing a study that surveyed people and asked whether they had gotten on the road after having had a few drinks in the last 30 days. The more accurate headline would have been that fewer people admitted to driving while drunk, [...]
Safety Gates Aren’t Always Safe
Safety 1st Stair Gate Recall
What are parents scared of when they have an infant or toddler moving around? Stairs! Keeping infants and toddlesr away from dangerous areas such as a flight of stairs is hugely important. Enter the stair gates. We all use them to prevent our children from reaching these hazardous areas.
Unfortunately, one of those gates has now [...]
Drunk Driver Kills Two Year Old and Grandmother
On Friday, a two-year-old boy was killed, along with his grandmother, when a man who had decided to get drunk and then drive slammed into the back of their car in Prince William County. How does anyone make any sense of that.
Gloria Delgado had done everything right to protect her family. Her little boy, Jonathan Wade-Ortiz, was [...]
Daycare Center Shut Down
Last week, I wrote about a young child who died in July from heat exposure after being left in a van for seven hours. The van was driven by an employee of Yellow Brick Road daycare center. The driver “forgot” the child was in the van and the daycare center did not call the parents by [...]
The Loss of a Child
There is nothing more devastating than the loss of a child.
Period.
Chuck Collins, a fellow member of the Fairfax Bar Association, wrote a book and created a website, both called Holding Onto Love. Both are full of resources for grieving parents, and the website offers an exchange of coping ideas and comments from others. Chuck and [...]
Is Your Child at a Safe Daycare Center?
No parents should have to get the news that the place where they took their child was responsible for the death of their child.
In Richmond, about six weeks ago, a 13-month-old baby was left in a van for over four hours. He died from heat exposure. He was left in the van by an employee at [...]