Kids and Guns
Guns in the home would be 100 percent safe for kids — if the guns were always unloaded, locked away, and never touched. But as soon as a bullet enters the chamber and a hand nears the trigger, guns become a serious hazard to children. According to th…
Learn MoreChildproofing Your Home
How can I make my home safe for my child?Parents worry endlessly about how to protect their children from everything — from ill-intentioned strangers to random bullets and stray dogs — but many overlook one of the biggest threats to their children’s…
Learn MoreFood Safety for Kids
With all the news about contaminated food, is there anything I can do to lower my child’s risk? There’s good reason to wonder. Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, and other potentially dangerous germs can be transmitted in food, causing illness and, in ver…
Learn MoreDaycare Workers
Theresa Quillen, a day-care worker for the last 20 years in Philadelphia, deeply loves children — even the one who sent her to the hospital.
The 3-year-old boy didn’t mean to hurt her. He just happened to be standing around when another 3-year-old wa…
Bicycle Helmets
Why should my child wear a bike helmet? Every year about 25 children an hour are rushed to hospital emergency rooms with injuries from bicycle wrecks — many of them head injuries that can cause brain damage and life-long disabilities. But these injur…
Learn MoreChildren’s Medicine Safety
Anyone can make mistakes taking medication, but kids are especially vulnerable. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, half of all kids don’t take their medicines properly. Of course, no one should expect a 6-year-old to read and follow the …
Learn MoreLead Poisoning On the Job
It wasn’t that long ago that a California man in his mid-30s walked into a doctor’s office with such astronomical levels of lead in his blood that he was barred from returning to work. Alarmed, health officials began looking into his workplace, the Al…
Learn MoreChoosing an Eye Doctor
Why do I — or members of my family — need to see an eye doctor? Sooner or later almost everyone will need to use eyeglasses. Vision problems are generally divided into two categories: nearsightedness (being able to see clearly only when things are c…
Learn MoreHarry Potter and Divorce Among the Muggles
We were listening to a tape of the most recent Harry Potter volume, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, on the way back from the beach, my three children and I. It was late, and everyone was sunburned and sandy, stunned into peaceful silence. T…
Learn MorePoisonproofing Your Home
If you have toddlers or small children, you may have already poison-proofed your house. If not, the sooner you get started, the better.Children between the ages of 1 and 6 years old are at the highest risk for poisoning because they are mobile, curiou…
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