The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children has partnered with Duracell batteries to produce a website called Power Of Parents which includes child safety tips, teaching tools, as well as a child safety handbook to aid you in having age appropriate conversations with your children about safety. Also included is a great storybook for younger children that addresses child safety on a fun level that makes learning interactive for them. The storybook, child safety handbook, and other resources can be found on PowerOfParentsOnline.com.
In honor of Child Safety Week, MotherProof.com is hosting some great how-to videos on how to properly instal child safety seats in your car. Topics covered include questions about car seats forwards or backwards, safest place for a car seat, and top 3 mistakes made by parents in car seat installations. Check them all out over at MotherProof.com.
Blinds and other window coverings can be a very dangerous place for a crawling baby or small toddler, who may become tangled up in the cords used to raise and lower the coverings. Seeing the need to educate the public on the hidden and unknown dangers, the WIndow Cover Safety Council created a series of webisodes to alert caregivers to this important issue.
"The first thing so many new parents do these days is go online to get parenting information," said WCSC Executive Director Peter Rush. "We wanted to create webisodes about home safety that would appeal to this demographic; to provide them with safety information that is both educational and entertaining."
SuperBaby is part of the Window Covering Safety Council’s ongoing effort to inform parents and caregivers about the potential hazards of window coverings. Many adults are unaware of the potential strangulation hazard of the window cord. According to information provided by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, since 1990 more than 200 infants and young children have died from accidentally strangling in window cords.
A great child safety resource for parents just won an award for it’s years of dedication to the cause. The Safe Kids Buckle Up campaign won a Peter K O’Rourke Special Achievement Award from the Governors Highway Safety Association for all of their work in becoming the largest child passenger safety program in the country. SafeKids.org is a great resource for parents to read about child safety regarding auto, fire, toy, and water safety. About SafeKids.org:
Safe Kids USA is a member of Safe Kids Wolrdwide, a global network of organizations whose mission is to prevent accidental childhood injury, a leading killer of children 14 and under.
More than 450 coalitions in 16 countries bring together health and safety experts, educators, corporations, foundations, governments and volunteers to educate and protect families.
It is the unthinkable. Not being able to see your child when you are backing out of the driveway and striking them. But it does happen, and is something that needs to be taken very seriously.
The incident underscores the importance of parents knowing where their children are at all times, according to child-safety experts who work to minimize instances in which children are injured or killed after darting into traffic, are run over or are left in hot cars.
Young children often go out the door, without their parents knowing, to see where their parents have gone. It is known as the "bye-bye syndrome," said Janette Fennell, founder and president of Kids and Cars.
