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Hidden Dangers

Although parents often think about common safety measures, like using car seats and installing gates on stairs, they often overlook 'hidden dangers' that can harm their kids.
Hidden Dangers That Compromise Child Safety
Many parents are unaware of child safety hazards that exist beyond drownings, car accidents, or house fires. Shopping cart injuries, TVs that tip over, and accidents on trampolines, ATVs, bunk beds all add up to common sources of injuries and deaths for children. Learn how to protect your kids from the hidden dangers that can compromise child safety.
Chemicals in your Child's Environment
Learn about the hazardous chemicals in your child's environment that you should avoid, like mercury in fish, VOCs in paint, and radon, and other things that you may be confused about, including your child's from things like BPA and phthalates in the plastic products they use.
Hidden Summer Dangers
Although you should make every effort to keep your kids safe year-round, it is especially important in the summer when most kids are out of school. Review these summer safety tips to help keep your kids safe this summer.
Winter Coats and Car Seats
During the winter, when many kids wear extra clothing, including sweaters and heavy winter coats, these extra layers can pose another 'hidden hazard' as you try to use your child's car seat correctly.
Shopping Cart Safety
Learn how to keep your kids safe when riding in a shopping cart, although according to the AAP, you should look for an alternative to using a shopping cart if you really want to keep your kids safe.
Falling Televisions Hazard
Learn more about the 'hidden hazard' of kids getting injured from televisions falling on top of them and how to secure your furniture and TV so that your kids are safe.
Think Safety First
In addition to the confusion of having a lot of people around, the breakdown in your usual safety plans can put your kids at great risk when you have visitors, like at a pool party or birthday party. Review how to keep your kids safe in these types of special situations.
How Safe Is Safe?
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 accident.
Kids in Hot Cars Alert
Review the hidden dangers of gets being left or getting trapped in hot cars, which can lead to heat stroke and death.
Backover Safety Alert
Review the problem of rollover injuries and deaths that are caused by the large rear view blind sport that large SUVs and minivans have and what you can do to keep your kids safe in your driveway.

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