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- The first parenting advice we'd like to offer involves the number one preventable cause of child fatalities which is auto accidents. It is not enough to put your child in a child safety approved car seat. You should buy a new, approved, appropriately sized for your child, car seat. Do not buy a used car seat, and our important baby parenting tips include buying a car seat that is the proper size to properly protect your infant or baby. Position the car seat, rear facing for as long as possible for the best protection and in the center position of the rear seat. Parenting tips for toddlers include driving defensively, especially through intersections and don’t use a cell phone or text message when you are behind the wheel. If you are driving multiple children in the car, insist that they do not distract you while you are driving the car. If necessary to ensure child safety, pull over, address the distraction and then resume driving. Ensure your toddler or small child is always securely restrained whenever anyone coming or going in an automobile around your home, at the home of another person, or in a parking lot. Many child safety failures involving toddlers and young children occur in driveways and parking lots when the driver did not realize the young child was in proximity to their car.
- The second leading preventable cause of children's death that you'll want to include in your parenting skills tool box is drowning. Do not use a babysitter that has a pool whether or not the pool is gated. Childproof your home and whenever your child is at another home, and not in your arms, inspect the home for potential hazards like buckets, toilets or bathtubs that have water in them. Never permit your child to attend a party or event when it is in proximity to a body of water without attending yourself, if you have a child under 5 years old, or an older child that cannot swim. Whenever you are around a body of water with your child, it is an important child safety practice to never allow group accountability for your child. Also, never assign the responsibility of watching your child around water to another person, other than the other parent of your child. Children drown regularly at family events right under the noses of family members. If you have a pool, employ multiple layers of child safety protection to safeguard your child from drowning: a pool fence, pool alarm(s), and door alarm(s). Never leave your baby or young child in the tub unattended for any length of time for any reason. Learn CPR and specifically infant CPR if you have a baby.
Young children under five years old are very vulnerable to accidental death and serious injury. The best parenting advice we can offer to improve your parenting skills regarding child safety is to learn about the causes of accidental death so you can prevent them. Scroll our Tragic Headlines page to read about real life tragedies. Babies and toddlers are too young and vulnerable to anticipate the dangers associated with automobiles, water, poisoning and other dangers. You should employ these baby parenting tips and parenting tips for toddlers along with using safety products for added layers of protection “just in case”. The pain and anguish of loosing a child to a preventable accidental death is a lifelong heartache for any parent. By learning parenting tips about child safety and employing child safety practices and products you can ease your worry about your baby or young child.
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