Child Safety

Childproofing Your Home
Keep your home safe for your children by installing child-resistant covers on electrical outlets, hiding dangerous chemicals, using safety belts, shortening shower curtains and blind cords, using corner bumpers and furniture and fireplace-hearth edges, placing houseplants out of children's reach, keeping lighters and matches out of reach, keeping fire arms locked away, avoiding household water hazards, learning CPR and first aid, testing your home for lead paint, removing the plastic end caps on doorstops or replacing the stops with a one-piece design to prevent choking.

ChildSafetyExperts.com
This site from Child Safety Experts.com has half a dozen articles on ways to make your home safer for your child. Every child deserves a safe and secure place to grow up. Start with the article on how to choose the proper safety gate. Safety gates are necessary to keep children from wandering into rooms where they shouldn't and to keep them from going up and down dangerous stairs. But not all baby gates are created equal and this article helps you spot the good ones and shy away from the bad ones. Next is a complete guide to baby-proofing your home, filled with tips and hints that you might otherwise overlook. Next is a guide to buying the all-important baby monitor. Your baby monitor is much too important to get stuck with a lemon. Next choose the perfect crib and mattress. Your baby will spend a great deal of time in the crib, so learn what to look for in a good one, and what to avoid in a bad one. Next is a printable list of emergency numbers, and finally there is an excellent and helpful article on helping you to know when your child is old enough and mature enough to be left home alone.

Secondhand Smoke
As a childcare provider, you play a critical role in the lives of the children in your care. An important part of that role can be protecting children from secondhand smoke. You can ensure them a smoke-free environment while in your care and can introduce information and actions that can be taken at home to reduce children's exposure. Creating and encouraging a smoke-free environment for children contributes to their safe and healthy development and overall well-being. The ABCs of Secondhand Smoke Training Module for Child Care Providers has been developed to serve as a resource for reducing children's exposure to secondhand smoke in the home. Reducing children's exposure to secondhand smoke means changing the behavior of adults. Website contains more about the training module.

Government Food Safety Information
Links to plenty of web sites that offer information about kids safety, safety lessons, food safety for babysitters, county fairs, food detectives, food safety for packing summer camp lunches, back to school food safety, steps to fight bacteria, food safety for children crossword puzzle and word scramble, field investigations, vibrio vulnificus health education kit, health safety curriculum and guides for teaching food safety to children, food safety coloring books and more resources for kids and teachers.