7 Tips for When Your Child Stays Home Alone

Ways to Keep Your Child Safe When Home Alone

As parents, we never want to leave our children home alone, but sometimes it is unavoidable.  Here are a few basics to keep in mind when your child must be home alone.

1.  Discuss any fears your child might have. Start by talking to your child honestly about how they feel about being home alone. Your child’s fears may be calmed with information about simple safety procedures in the house, such as locked windows and doors. Sometimes it’s the unknown that frightens a child. If your child knows he or she won’t have to answer the door or the telephone, that may be enough to put their mind at ease. That’s why it’s so important to get to the bottom of your child’s fear by discussing what’s behind it.

How to Teach Kids to Avoid Dog Bites

How to Prevent Dog Bites

10 Things We Can Teach Our Children to Prevent Dog Bites

Did you know that children are the most common victims of dog bites? Many dog bites that affect children happen during everyday activities and with familiar dogs.

May 18 – 24 is National Dog Bite Prevention Week and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has great ways to help parents and their children understand how they can prevent dog bites, so you can help your kids – and dogs-stay safe and happy!

5 Infant Safety Tips

5 tips for infant safety

5 Tips for Infant Safety

Having a newborn child in the house should be a time of joy for new parents. These easy-to-follow tips can alleviate some of the natural worry of infancy and help you keep your child safe in the home.

Product Recalls Websites


Websites That Inform Parents about Product Recalls

Guest post by Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academies

From safe eating and outdoor life, to prescriptions and travel, child safety applies to almost every area of a child’s life, including any products that parents purchase for use with or for their child. Keeping up with product recalls is important. Fortunately, there are helpful websites that provide valuable product recall information.

Below is a useful list for parents, day care providers, and childcare centers. If you see a product listed on one of these websites, read closely to see what suggested actions are recommended.

National Car Seat Check Saturday Sept. 21st

National Seat Check Saturday

Keeping Kids Safe in Car Seats

During Child Passenger Safety Week (September 15-21, 2013) many communities will have certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians available to provide free, hands-on, car seat education and inspections. The week concludes with National Seat Check Saturday on September 21, when certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians will be available at car seat events across the country to offer advice and instruction. To locate a car seat inspection station near you, click here.

Ohio Kidnappings: What Should We Teach Our Children?

Mom talking to daughter

How to Talk to Your Children About the Ohio Kidnappings

“Amanda Berry turned 17 on the day that she was abducted, Gina DeJesus just barely a teen at age 13, Michelle Knight, the oldest of the Ohio trio kidnapped and held captive for over a decade, was a mere 21,” Powell-Lunder wrote on GalTime.com.

“As a parent it is hard to know what to think, let alone what to say to your children. This story has many angles, many themes.