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Child Safety & Injury Prevention
Keeping kids safe is every parent’s first job. More4Kids has shared practical child-safety guidance with families since 2006 — browse by topic, or scroll down for the latest articles.
- Online & Internet Safety — Keeping kids safe online: social media and screen time, cyberbullying and sexting, monitoring, and teaching smart internet habits.
- Home Safety — Baby-proofing and child safety locks, fire and poison prevention, choking and suffocation risks, and accident-proofing your home.
- Stranger & Abduction Safety — Teaching kids about strangers, abduction prevention, recognizing predators, and what to do if a child goes missing.
- Outdoor & Play Safety — Playground injury prevention, bike safety, and choosing safe toys (and watching for recalls).
- Child Abuse Awareness — Recognizing the signs of physical and emotional child abuse, and understanding how to help.
- Seasonal & Holiday Safety — Trick-or-treat and Halloween safety, holiday shopping, hurricane and natural-disaster prep, and cold-weather risks.
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Most Recent Safety Articles
The story is unfortunately all too common. A 13 year old boy commits suicide after a cyberbully torments him relentlessly. An 18 year old girl kills herself...
by Stephanie Partridge What is Your Teen being Exposed To? This is the first in a series on social networking sites. These sites have become so popular, so...
by Jennifer Shakeel GPS tracking devices are one of the newer devices that parents now have to decide whether to use or not use. Although there are many...
by Stephanie Partridge Emotional abuse is not only hurtful, it attacks and decimates a child’s self esteem. It is particularly damaging to the...
by Jennifer Shakeel While the internet is a beautiful thing it is also a very dangerous thing, especially to our children. For years we as parents have feared...
As a parent and someone who spends a lot of time online for my job, I know and understand the importance of teaching internet safety to our kids. In this...
When you have kids, it’s so easy to suddenly have an accident happen. Of course you aren’t going to be able to protect your kids from everything...
If you are a parent in an area that is known to experience extremely cold temperatures and snow, it is important to know first aid for children with frostbite...
Christmas is just around the corner and no doubt you are going to be going Christmas shopping for your kids soon. Sure, you are probably going to find some...
