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Apparently, I am now the father of a “bigger” little kid. Recently, my daughter made this distinction perfectly clear to us, not with her words but by testing and expanding her boundaries (and her parents’ anxiety). And, they both get pushed to their limit.
But, through this new period in our child’s exploration, we learned that, though we had done a good job of preparing our house to keep her safe so far, we had to take our home safety prep to another level, quite literally.
This blog was written by David Strickland, the Chairman of the Safe Kids Board of Directors and the former Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
As Chairman of the Safe Kids Board of Directors, I am pleased to announce that, after an extensive nationwide search, Torine Creppy has been named the president of Safe Kids Worldwide.
Some say it is overly ambitious to think we can reach a goal of zero road fatalities involving people on foot and bikes. When it comes to keeping kids safe, there should be no other goal. There is nothing worse for a parent than losing a child. The tragedies are all the more devastating when they are a preventable injury. Things like fires, falls, drowning and car crashes. It’s a child not buckled up correctly in a car seat. It’s an 8th grader with headphones hit by speeding driver or a bicyclist hit by a teen driver who wasn’t required to have adequate on-the-road practice time.
New Research Reveals How Kids Get into Medicine and How to Help Protect Them
Washington, D.C. – Ask parents if they know it is important to store medicine out of children’s reach and sight after every use and 9 out of 10 will agree. But accidental medicine poisoning sends a child under 6 to the emergency room every nine minutes, and every 12 days, a child dies.
Our new infographic shows what parents and caregivers need to know about storing medicine safely in the home.
Nearly 9 in 10 parents agree that it’s important to store medicine up high and out of reach of children after every use, but nearly 7 in 10 report that they aren’t actually doing so. Watch our new video, made with the support of Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc.
In our latest Gary on the Street video, Gary talks to parents about medication safety and medicine in their home.
Every 12 days, a child under age six in the United States dies from an accidental medicine-related poisoning. Every hour, a child is hospitalized for that same reason, and every nine minutes, a child goes to the emergency room.
When it comes to keeping kids safe around medicine, parents and caregivers are the first line of defense. But while most parents say they know how important it is to store medicine out of reach and sight, they aren’t always doing so. Sometimes parents underestimate how quickly their kids can get into medicine. Other times they think child-resistant packaging is childproof. Still other parents aren’t always sure what “out of reach and sight” really means.
So what can parents do?
This blog was written by Alisha Yan, Safe Kids Public Policy spring intern.
What if every time a police officer stopped you while driving, he or she gave you a high five and a Starbucks gift card? Instead of punitive fines and violations, would positive reinforcement do a better job in making our roads safer—especially in a time when car crashes are increasing for the first time in decades?