Parents can certainly learn a lesson from some of these accidents and tragedies, such as that a mild winter equals thin ice on most ponds, which means you shouldn't go for a stroll on the ice with your family. Also, gun powder and kids aren't a good mix.
- a 6-year-old who drowned, and has still not been found, after falling into the Clackamas River in Oregon as the family was visiting the area to see the snow
- a 14-year-old in Tremonton, Utah who died when a miniature replica cannon blew up as he was examining it to figure out why it hadn't fired and shrapnel hit him in the face. Although the cannon was "just a toy," the teen would reportedly fire pieces of gun powder wrapped in tin foil from the barrel.
- a 17-year-old in Red Jacket, West Virginia who suffered life-threatening injuries and was air-lifted to a hospital after losing control of his ATV
- a 1-year-old baby who survived a second story fall through the bars of a balcony, which may have broke, in an apartment in Lake Worth, Florida
- a 3-year-old and his parents who were rescued after falling through thin ice at Spy Pond in Arlington, Massachusetts
- a 13-month-old twin boy who died in a house fire in Trumann, Arkansas
- a 6-year-old who has bites on his face and leg after being bitten by a Rottweiler-lab mix in Huntington, West Virginia
- a 5-year-old girl who died after she became strangled by her jump rope on some play ground equipment at a Wichita Falls, Texas apartment complex in what is being described as a "freak accident"
You don't have to wait for an accident to think about preventing a tragedy though.
What do you or your kids do that isn't safe?
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