Posted by safeBABY on June 2, 2008
Today’s Wall Street Journal featured a story about parents paying to baby-proof their dogs. One trainer had a woman walking through the house with a stroller, playing a CD of “annoying” baby cries and tugging on dog’s ears and tail the way a toddler might. The concern, of course, is dog bites … the WSJ reports that dog bites affect more than 4.7 million people each year - the majority of them children … Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by safeBABY on April 18, 2008
The Consumer Product Safety Comission says 90 percent of U.S. households have smoke alarms installed, but, sadly, that 20 percent of them don’t have working alarms. That amounts to 1 million American households without functioning smoke detectors!
That’s why changing the batteries (and those in your CO2 devices) is today’s Quick Fix: a safe and wellness task that’s easily done. If you’re concerned about monitoring battery life, consider a long-life smoke alarm - the lithium batteries are said to last 10 years.
Quick fix. Ten years peace of mind.
[Photo: by Eat at Joe's via Flickr]
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