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This is National Childhood Injury Prevention Week, which means it’s a great time to brush up on a few of the easiest things parents can do to keep their kids safe.
When it comes to safety for your children, you already know the basics: buckle up, wear a helmet, learn to swim, look both ways. Here are some lesser-known – but just as important – tips to help keep your family safe.
1. Tug on your kid’s car seat where the seat belt goes. If it moves more than 1” at the base, tighten it up. Need help with your child’s car seat? Watch for more tips:
As parents, our children’s safety is always at the forefront of our minds. We share so many amazing and exhilarating moments with them, but in an instant we can encounter frightening situations that call for a brave face even though the storm of uncertainty is brewing within us.
Washington, D.C. – As part of National Child Passenger Safety Week, Safe Kids Worldwide released today “Buckle Up: Booster Seats,” a new study that finds an alarming number of parents are allowing kids to use a seat belt alone before they are big enough.
I’m a state trooper, a certified child passenger safety technician and a father of four kids under the age of 11, so I understand the importance of safety seats. I’ll never forget the day in March 2014, when I saw for myself just how important they are.
I was volunteering at a car seat inspection at the Fabius-Park Township fire department, just outside of Three Rivers, Mich. The forecast that day was for rain and snow. Ice had already started covering the roads.
This week, as part of Child Passenger Safety Week (September 14-20), we’re teaming up with the General Motors Foundation to help keep kids safe while riding in the car.
Safe Kids found that one in five parents whose children carpool say they “bend the rules” when driving, letting kids ride without seat belts and without the car seat or booster seat they would normally use. Watch this quick segment from the Today Show, and visit Buckle Up: Keeping Your Kids Safe in the Car to learn more.
"Mommy, I have a great idea. After school, you can pick me up and we can walk to town and get some ice cream."
My 4-year-old son, Winston, says this nearly every day during our morning commute.
It sounds so Mayberry, doesn't it?
Mind you, my family lives in a suburb of DC that has 1 million people and growing. And my husband and I live a pretty hectic life (as do most parents, I think). We both work outside the home and our days start early and end late.
This autumn, Safe Kids is teaming up with MOTRIN® and Kelly Ripa to celebrate moms everywhere and the things that make them unstoppable. Visit the MOTRIN® Facebook page to share your best mom tips from now until December 31st. As official charity partner, Safe Kids will receive $1 for every tip posted.*
If there is one thing I know about myself, it’s that I am not the most coordinated person. I know this because I ran cross-country in high school, and I still have the scars to prove it. Even the smallest branch or bump in the road used to be enough to bring me tumbling to the ground in spectacular fashion.
Every hour of every day, a teen pedestrian is killed or injured in the U.S.
Washington, D.C.– New research released today from Safe Kids Worldwide revealed alarming news: 40 percent of teens have been hit or nearly hit by a car, bike or motorcycle while walking.
The report, “Teens on the Move” made possible with support from FedEx®, explores walking behaviors of 1,040 teens ages 13 to 19.