Complete Idiots Guide to Child Safety

By Miriam Bachar Settle

A total guide to making the home safe for children. The text covers everything from childproofing and fireproofing a home, to steps for preventing toxic poisoning and playground injuries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028636309
• ISBN13: 9780028636306
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Macmillan Distribution
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Complete Idiot's Guide to Child Safety

Parents receive so much information about possible dangers to their children and what they can do to protect them that they find it difficult to know where to draw the line. What safety measures should they insist their child and other caregivers observe? Which ones are less important? This book helps them focus on what is most important. As manager of Texas Children's Center for Childhood Injury Prevention and the local Safe Kids coordinator, I hear many stories from parents about what problems might have been prevented if they had only known . . . Since we can expect each year for one child in four to be injured badly enough to need medical care, this is a most needed reference for parents.

Keep Your Kids Safe!

Keeping kids safe sounds scary, but this book offers some simple solutions. The authors not only educate readers about safety at home and school, in the car and on the bike, they also tackle safety and sports, pools, and even farms. Did you know that falls from shopping carts are a major reason why kids visit emergency rooms? The authors explain how to keep your kid secure in the cart. Do you when your child is old enough to cross the street alone? The answer surprised me. Do you when your child is mature enough to be home alone? They offer a quiz to help you decide when your child -- and you -- are ready for that big step. I recommend this book for anyone who watches kids between infancy and age 14. After all, keeping our kids safe and secure is just as important as letting them know they are loved.