Celebrate Poison Prevention Week with These Tips for Safety

By Editor
March 14, 2023
A child tries to open a medication bottle.

National Poison Prevention Week (March 19-25) is a great time to add some simple safety tips to your parenting toolkit.

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Devices Down

By Gary Karton
April 14, 2014
Teen driver behind the wheel

This month the National Safety Council is observing Distracted Driving Awareness Month and giving us all an important reminder of the potentially tragic consequences to driving while talking or texting. The Council is asking all drivers to stop using cell phones while they drive.

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Tags: national safety council, distracted driving awareness month, road safety, in and around cars, distraction

Safe Kids Day New York

By Editor
April 12, 2014
Little girl at Safe Kids Day New York

On Saturday, April 12 hundreds of families and kids of all ages swept through the Highline Stages in New York for Safe Kids Day – a day to celebrate kids, prevent injuries and save lives.

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Tags: safe kids new york, safety, kids, child safety

Hollywood Celebrates Safe Kids Day

By Editor
April 7, 2014
Ciara at Safe Kids Day LA 2014

On Saturday, April 5 more than 450 families and kids of all ages swept through the Lot in West Hollywood for the first ever Safe Kids Day in Los Angeles to help celebrate kids, prevent injuries and save lives.

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Tags: safe kids day la, hollywood, drew barrymore

Rules of the Game

By Editor
April 7, 2014
Boy playing Baseball during Sports Safety Month

Did you know that in 2012, 1.35 million children were seen in emergency departments for a sport-related injury? And every 3 minutes, a child is seen for a sport-related concussion.

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Tags: national youth sports safety month, sports safety, pre-participation physical exam, CPR, dehydration, ACL injuries

If Kids Could Float

April 1, 2014
Becca and Thomas Cunningham

Here's the information I want every family to know. Children are falling from windows at an alarming rate – more than 3,300 kids five and under go to the emergency every year. Window falls are a completely preventable.  All windows should have window guards, child safe window stops or 4-inch window opening limiters.  We recommend Guardian Angel window guards, KidCo window stops or KidCo mesh window guards because these all meet ASTM safety standards.

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Tags: falls, window safety, home safety

A Window to Safety

By Gary Karton
March 31, 2014
Smiling Boy

From the moment our babies start to crawl, the world is a magical place filled with new adventures and discoveries. We want to create an environment where kids have the freedom to explore and discover and have fun. That means taking a few precautions around the house to minimize the risk of serious injuries.

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Tags: window safety, window guards, safety tips, window safety week, falls prevention, home safety

The Course of My Life

By Kerry Chausmer
March 31, 2014
A child properly strapped into a car seat

Sometimes we do something and have no idea what the long term consequences might be.

I took the Child Passenger Safety Certification Course in 1998. It was one of the original courses offered and I traveled all the way from Louisiana to Texas to be one of the first people to get certified to correctly install and check car seats.

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Tags: child passenger safety certification, car seat technician, car seat safety, car seat check ups, car safety

What Every Grandparent Needs to Know

By Rennie Ferguson
March 12, 2014
Medicine bottle to illustrate medication safety

Grandparents are playing a bigger role than ever before in raising their grandkids. More than 7 million grandparents in the United States live with their grandchildren, and 13 percent of grandparents are relied on to be a trusted caregiver.

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Tags: medication safety, medicine safety, grandparents, research, up and away, safety tips

Interview with an Expert

By Lindsay Hansen
March 5, 2014
Teen baseball player

Our partners at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) recently released new guidelines about overuse injuries and burnout in youth athletes. Safe Kids had the chance to talk with Dr. John P.

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Tags: interview with an expert, sports safety, overuse injuries, american medical society for sports medicine

Incredible Shrinking Parents

By Margarita Kofalt
February 26, 2014
Safe Kids staff demonstrates an oversize model kitchen

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to experience the world as a toddler again? I, for one, have gotten so used to being an adult that I completely take for granted how enormous the world must seem to little kids.

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Tags: home safety, cooking safety, Kitchen Safety, international, global health, germany, Qatar

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