Parent CentralWelcome to Parent Central, where injury prevention experts from Pro Consumer Safety, provides parents with safety tip pages in the home, toy safety, bicycle safety, hiking safety, boating safety, beach safety, summer camp safety, winter sports safety, holiday safety and resources for parents.
How do injuries happen?
While products such as baby furniture, swimming pools, toys, household cleaning products, etc. have regulatory safety requirements and recommendations, preventable injuries still happen. Often unintentional injuries from the use of various products occur, such as drowning from exposure to swimming pools, falling from stairs, poisoning or suffocation, for example. These injuries among children, generally occur from a slight gap in supervision near swimming pools, stairs or hot surfaces in the kitchen, to the lack of using equipment such as bicycle helmets or car seats properly. Injuries also happen from intentional mechanisms such as violence and abuse. However because it is natural for children to model behaviors from their parents and caregivers it is common that patterns of behaviors, some healthy and some unhealthy, have been learned and practiced by parents today. Many behaviors that parents model to their children now are often those that were patterned. This is what is observed in abuse patterns. We offer awareness, solutions and programs to help parents so they can model positive, healthy behaviors to their children.
How can injuries be prevented? With proper layers of protection, safety equipment and healthy lifestyles can significantly reduce the risk of injury and keep your family safe. See the pages to the right for preventive measures.
Get expert advise then shop online Injury prevention experts from Pro Consumer Safety are available to answer questions you may have. For your convenience you can shop for these safety products at our Baby Store here on our site, by Amazon. From home improvement, baby safety products and sporting equipment we can provide you with resources on where to purchase equipment, clothing and items needed to keep you and your family safe.
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