Tips for buying safe home play equipment
It can be so confusing when you go out to buy play equipment for your own backyard. You want to provide a safe and fun environment for your children and their friends to play on, but there are so many decisions. What size is right? What should be included in the equipment? What materials should [...]
Is Your Home’s Play Equipment Safe?
Children ought to have safe places to play. And, if they’re on playground equipment, it should be safe for them to climb and swing and slide on. A child should not be injured or killed because of unsafe playground equipment.
A four-year-old boy died on backyard play equipment three years ago when he fell from monkey bars [...]
Ask “Who, What, Where, When” when it comes to school bus safety
We usually associate the “who, what, where, when” questions to reporters. Traditionally, those are the questions reporters asked and then used as the basis of their reports.
Those four “W” questions are great questions for parents to ask when their young children, or children with special needs, start riding the school bus.
Here are 12 questions by Terri Mauro [...]
TVs That Hurt
We buy and use TVs for entertainment and relaxation. We allow our children to watch shows that have our approval. TVs are a common part of our everyday lives. But, do we ever think of how dangerous TVs can be?
Recently, researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, released the results of a study on childhood injuries [...]
Beware of School Buses in Parking Lots
Has your child’s school designed a safe system for dropping off and picking up children? Does it have enough adult supervision to make sure children are walking where they are supposed to be walking?
Last January, in a small community in southern Virginia, after school had been in session for months, a young pre-kindergarten student was [...]
Should A School Bus Driver Be Allowed to Use A Cell Phone While Driving?
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want my child on a school bus being driven by a driver who is talking on his cell phone — even if he was using a hands-free device. A school bus driver’s job is hard enough. There are plenty of distractions sitting behind him in the bus. Allowing [...]
Little Tikes Clubhouse swing set recalled
We often see reference to “some assembly required.” However, when the manufacturer doesn’t give you instructions on how to do it, disaster could happen.
No assembly instructions came with the Little Tikes Clubhouse swing set (sold at Toys R Us and Wal-Mart) for the swing set harness. If the harness is not properly assembled, the seat [...]
Teen trapped when swimming suit gets caught in grate
Yesterday, I read an article about a lawsuit filed by the father of a young teen who was injured last summer in a city swimming pool.
Every year, children are injured or drown in swimming pools because of improper grates over drains at the bottom of the pool, even in the shallow wading pool area where young [...]
Dangerous Circo Booster Seat from Target
Booster seats are supposed to make our children safer, not fling them around inside the car and cause injury. The buckle on any child seat, whether it be a stroller, high chair, or booster seat is supposed to keep wiggly children from falling out of their seat.
A booster seat sold exclusively at Target has been recalled [...]
Will your child be safe in and around school buses?
The days may still be long and temperatures hot, but it’s time for school to start in many areas.
The beginning of school is always a little scary for children and their parents. Of course, one fear we have is for the safety of our children going to and from school.
Have you checked out the school [...]