Fire Safety and Children – 5 Tips
Hundreds of deaths per year are caused by children who get a hold of matches or lighters and start fires. Children younger than 6 years of age are usually responsible for starting those fires and are most likely the ones who die from them.
- Don’t leave matches or lighters out where a child can get them.
- Never play with lighters or matches around children.
- Buy lighters that have child-resistent features.
- Train your children to get an adult if they see matches or lighters and to not touch them.
- It is best not to have matches or lighters in a bedroom or a room where children are not always supervised.
This post provides great safety tips. I work with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and wanted to share a website, AfterTheInjury.org, that I believe every parent should know about. As scars begin to heal and crutches are finally put aside, many parents naturally focus on their child’s physical injury and can overlook the fact that a full recovery is both mental and physical for their kids. AfterTheInjury.org is provides a wealth of information from cast care tips, to helping kids with their emotional reactions to injury, to how to take care of yourself, as a parent, when your child is injured.