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Summer Home Safety Tips to Keep Kids Safe
5 Tips from The Home Safety Council
By Melinda Copp
"Safety labels are usually there because someone else suffered a tragedy," Appy says. "Take that seriously."
5. Drowning
Water is synonymous with summer – pool parties, learning to swim and wading pools are all popular summertime fixtures. If your child is invited to a pool party, offer to help the host parents out with the poolside supervision. And if you throw a pool party yourself, enlist as many adults as possible to watch over everyone. Know CPR, and make sure you have proper lifesaving equipment within close reach. Also, if you own a swimming pool you should put a 5-foot-high fence around all sides so the pool is completely isolated. Wading pools and baby pools should be drained after each use. "Realize that if you can't put a fence around it or drain it, you have something very dangerous on your property," Appy says.
Children can never be left alone around water. You should be within an arm's reach of your child in the tub, around any type of pool and even around the mop bucket.
Safety This Summer and Beyond
Although the hands on approach to home safety may seem like a long list of things to check and replace, all you have to do is get started. With each item you tick off the list, your home is a little safer for the people you love the most. "Just start," Appy says. "You can make sure your family is safe in the place you want them to be safe."
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