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Car Seat Inspector - About Pediatrics
Are you using the right car seat and are you using it correctly? Many parents aren't, so use this car seat inspector to help you find the right car seat for your child.
Childproofing a New House - Keep Kids Healthy
Before your child is crawling, walking and becoming a lot more mobile, it would be a good time to childproof your house. Get down on all fours and search the house for potential hazards to your child.
Where should preschoolers ride? - About Pediatrics
Learn how your preschool and school children can ride safely in your car.
Safety Quiz for Parents - Keep Kids Healthy
Accidents are the leading causes of death of children. Do you know as much about keeping your children safe as you should? Take our Child Safety Quiz to see how much you know about child safety.
How Safe Is Safe? - About Pediatrics
Can your child be too safe? Remember that the more chances you take, such as by not using a car seat, having a gun that is loaded and unlocked in the house, or not having a smoke detector, the more likely your child is to be injured or killed by an a
Childproofing the House - Keep Kids Healthy
Before your child is crawling, walking and becoming a lot more mobile, it would be a good time to childproof your house. Get down on all fours and search the house for potential hazards to your child.
Stranger Danger Quiz - About Pediatrics
Can your kids recognize strangers? Using our Stranger Danger Quiz, you can test your kids to see if they know how to recognize strangers. Will they just choose people who look mean or strange? Or will they recognize that a stranger is anyone that they don't know?
Stranger Awareness - Keep Kids Healthy
Stranger Awareness is important to protect your children from being abducted. Do your kids know what a stranger is? Do they know what to do if approached by a stranger?
Hidden Dangers - Childproofing the House - Keep Kids Healthy
Your kids may not be safe unless you have considered many of the hidden dangers that many parents overlook, such as anchors to keep furniture from tipping over, covers over power strips, window gaurds, etc.
Car Seat Safety Quiz - About Pediatrics
Take our car seat safety quiz to see if your children are safe when riding in a car.
Car Seat Poll - About Pediatrics
It is estimated that less than 10 percent of children who should be restrained in booster seats ride in one. When did you move your kids to regular seat belts?
Guide to Preschool Food Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
a discussion of food safety in preschool children and how to prevent foodpoisoning
Walking and Biking Safety for Toddlers - Keep Kids Healthy
Dangers for young children on the move include darting out into traffic from the middle of the block; playing in or near the street; riding a tricycle or bike in a parking lot, driveway, or street.
Taming Twin Toddlers - Keep Kids Healthy
Think that taking care of a toddler is tough? Try two. Learn about how to keep you twins safe, happy, and healthy as they enter the toddler years and begin the terrible twos.
Air bag safety - Buckle up everyone - Keep Kids Healthy
Air bag safety: Buckle up everyone! Children in back! An infant or child riding in the front seat can be seriously injured or killed by the inflating air bag.
Is your car safety seat secure?
A child safety seat must be held securely against the vehicle seat back. If the lap part of the safety belt is not tight or the safety seat slides around on the vehicle seat, your child may not be protected.
Safety for Children
Safety Information for children, including tips on babysitters, preventing SIDS, car seat safety, plus gun and pool safety.
Summer Time Safety Tips to Keep Children Safe
Summer time safety tips, including water and sun safety, fireworks safety, summertime food safety and use of insect repellants.
Children's Car Seat Safety Guide
Car Seat Safety Guide. Learn to avoid the factors that contribute to preventable injuries from car accidents, including carseats used incorrectly or not used at all, children being placed in the wrong type of car seat, and moving children out of a car seat or booster and into regular seat belts at too early an age.
Harness straps: your child's link to safety
The harness holds your child in his seat to protect him in a crash. Some safety seats have just a harness; others have a harness attached to a shield.
Child Safety Seats Get Safer for your Kids
Read about the newest breed of car seating systems with LATCH that keep kid passengers more secure and makes installation a snap.
Hazardous Recalled Toys
Learn to be on the lookout for recently recalled toys and children's products that pose serious safety threats to youngsters
Where should your child ride?
The back seat usually is safer than the front, because head-on crashes are the most common kind. There must be one belt for each person.
Poison Control Centers
Poison Control Centers - find your state poison information center so you are prepared for accidental poisonings.
CPR and Kids
CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is an important skill for parents to learn. Learn where you can take a CPR class.
Car Seat Mistakes
Learn to avoid common mistakes parents make when placing their child in a car seat.
Swimming Safety for Children - Keep Kids Healthy
Healthy Swimming behaviors are needed to protect you and your kids from recreational water illnesses, like diarrhea, and will help stop germs from getting in the pool in the first place
First Aid and Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
First aid treatments for children, first aid kit, allergic reactions, burns, bleeding, animal bites, drug reactions.
Kids in Hot Cars - Keep Kids Healthy
Learn about the danger of leaving kids alone in a hot car, which can lead to heat stroke and death.
Babysitter Checklist - Keep Kids Healthy
Whether you occasionally hire a babysitter to watch your children or you have full-time in-home childcare, this baby sitter checklist covers everything a caregiver needs to know so she can keep your kids happy and safe when you're not around. Before you go out, fill it in, print it out, post it on the fridge, and rest easy as you head for the door.
Bunk Beds Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
Learn about using bunk beds safely with children. Each year, thousands of children under age 15 receive hospital emergency room treatment for injuries associated with bunk beds. Most of these injuries are fairly minor and occur when children fall from the beds.
Burn Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
Burns are a common cause of preventable injury. Learn safety tips to keep your children safe from burns.
Kids and Firework Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
Instead of letting your kids play with fireworks, make plans to attend a public fireworks display, conducted by trained professionals, and watch the fireworks at a safe distance.
Fire Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
Fire safety precautions can help to prevent death and injury from fires. How safe is your home from fire?
Fire Safety Tips - Keep Kids Healthy
In addition to working smoke alarms, a fire escape plan and home fire drills can help make sure that all family members can get out of the house safely if there is a fire.
Gun Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
Gun Safety is important to keep your children safe. If you must have a gun, keep it unloaded and locked with the bullets locked separately.
Spa and Hot Tub Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
Spas, Hot Tubs and Spas can cause injury and death from drownings, hair entanglement and bodypart entrapment. High hot tub temperatures can also cause problems.
Hurricane Safety Tips - Keep Your Kids Safe - Keep Kids Healthy
Safety tips and warning of the dangers from generators, candles, and other products that might be used if a hurricane knocks out electricity.
Backyard Pool Safety for Children - Keep Kids Healthy
Backyard Pool Safety tips to prevent drownings in your children and promote water safety when swimming around pools and spas, plus info on diving safety.
Toy Safety for your Children - Keep Kids Healthy
Learn about how to choose safe and age appropriate toys for your children, which don't have to be expensive or trendy.
Trampoline Safety for Children - Keep Kids Healthy
Here are the steps you can take to help prevent serious trampoline injuries, especially sprains, fractures, scrapes, bruises, and cuts.
Water Safety for Children - Keep Kids Healthy
Water Safety tips to prevent drownings in your children and promote water safety when swimming around pools and spas.
Window Guards and Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
New safety standards for window guards that will help parents protect their children from window falls.
Food Safety Guide for Children - Keep Kids Healthy
Food safety guide to learn how to prevent food poisoning in children.
Back To School Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
As children are now back in school, it is important to learn to help them get to and from school safely.
Halloween Safety Tips - Keep Kids Healthy
Halloween is a fun time for kids, but it is also an important time to be extra vigilant for possible safety hazards so that your children have a fun and safe Halloween. Read tips on costume, trick or treating, and candy safety.
Heating Systems Inspections - Autumn Safety - Keep Kids Healthy
As the weather turns colder throughout much of the country, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) urges consumers to have a professional inspection of all fuel-burning heating systems - including furnaces, boilers, fireplaces, water heaters and space heaters - to detect potentially deadly carbon monoxide (CO) leaks.
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