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With a Shortage of Lifeguards, Here’s How to Keep Children Safe
A national lifeguard shortage this summer is causing thousands of public pools to close or cut back hours, leaving many beachgoers to swim at their own risk. Parents should be extra cautious about kids and water.
Keep Kids Safe This Summer
Many summertime activities carry health risks for children. Help them avoid these hazards with some simple precautions.
Baby's Teeth Coming In? You Can Relieve Teething Pain Safely Without Medicine
Six simple solutions to give your baby teething pain relief without using any medicine -- either prescribed or over-the-counter.
Getting the Best Protection From Your Child’s Car Seat
It can be a challenge for parents to figure out the right time to graduate a child from a rear-facing infant car seat to a forward-facing car seat, then to a booster seat and finally to no child seat at all. Learn when to switch the seat.
Best Tips To Protect Your Youngster from Common Choking Hazards
As curious young children discover their world, they learn to enjoy new foods and new experiences. But what they put in their mouths can become a choking danger.
Best Bike-Riding Rules To Help Keep Your Child Safe
Bicycle riding is fun and a great way for kids to get exercise and be independent. But it’s important to remember that a bicycle is a vehicle, and not a toy – and it’s important to teach your children some basic safety tips when they start to ride.
The Truth About 'Dry Drowning' – And What Parents Need To Know
It’s more useful to think in terms of fatal or non-fatal drowning – and imperative for parents to recognize the signs of respiratory injury after their child has been under water.
Best Ways to Avoid Infection, Illness When You Swim
Whenever you wade into a lake, pond, creek or swimming pool to splash and cool off, you run the risk of encountering microorganisms that could make you sick.