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Video 7 in the Start Safe Fire video series: It isn't hard to prevent fires and burns at home. Watch this video for simple steps parents can take.
Video 8 in the Start Safe Fire video series: Kids have fire drills at school; it is important to practice at home too. Watch and learn how.
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As a longtime member of the Safe Kids staff I was pretty familiar with child safety, long before I became Stephen’s dad 17 months ago, Back then, I didn’t realize the impact Safe Kids would have on my new role as parent.
The worst news you can hear involves the death of a child. It's only more upsetting when that death might have been prevented.
This spring, Nedao Abdelghani of Bridgeview, IL died after a relative backing out of a driveway backed over him. He was three years old.
"Back-overs" and "front-overs" are not new. When I was in high school, our neighbor ran over her daughter while she was sunbathing on the driveway. She was hurt very badly and, to this day, has a memory just as painful. Hard to call her "lucky," but families who have lost a child this way would.
I feel lucky to be involved in yet another Child Passenger Safety Week. This is my 25th celebration! It is a time when the nation’s 34,000 car seat technicians rally around the issue, especially on Seat Check Saturday (September 24), when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) encourages us to offer car seat checkup events in our communities on the same day.
It’s been an interesting week at Safe Kids Buckle Up! It’s National Teen Driving Awareness Week and we don’t usually get involved in teen driving issues. This year is different though, because of the Safe Kids Countdown2Drive campaign. We now have something pretty cool to talk about. Countdown2Drive (C2D) is a program targeted to parents of teens 13-14, and to the teens themselves; who are getting excited about driving in the near future.