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The Purpose Of How To Help Your Child Avoid Our Accident Epidemic Is To Keep Your Child Safe By Giving You The Information You Need To Develop A Customized Personal Safety Plan For All Activities.
Let's discuss the bad news first.
Our Accident Epidemic
A few years into the future, a new drug-resistant virus suddenly appears in the United States, striking indiscriminately: newborns and senior citizens are felled; it takes a particularly heavy toll on teenagers and young adults. About 120,000 die each year, and millions more are disabled, some permanently. A person will leave home in the morning and, later in the day, a loved one will receive the terrible news that he or she has died or is seriously ill.
The disease quickly becomes headline news. There is no cure, but preventive measures are found and publicized. As these are developed, organizations create elaborate plans to inform their employees.
Still the disease rages. It is usually contracted as the result of an individual’s failure to take proper precautions. Worse, many people are infected as a result of others’ failure to follow the preventive guidelines.
This fictional virus would surely stir a national effort to find a cure. Yet today, something is causing widespread death and injury, and the response is surprisingly muted. We're talking about accidents, and our apparent willingness to tolerate such a huge casualty toll year after year, when good safety habits, practiced consistently, could save thousands of lives each year.
The only acceptable grade when it comes to safety is 100 percent.
Child Safety
Children and youth are the most vulnerable members of society. A combination of inquisitiveness, lack of knowledge, and feelings of invincibility contribute to this vulnerability. As kids grow up, they face new hazards every year.
It is up to adults to protect children in their early years, and then to guide them in forming good safety habits as they acquire the knowledge to make decisions on their own.
Unfortunately, much work needs to be done as accidents are the leading cause of death from ages one through nineteen.
The principal causes of accidental deaths to children and youth (birth through age 19) are:*
Motor Vehicle
7,650
Drowning
1,050
Suffocation
850
Poisoning 750 Fire 550 Choking 200 Falls 200 Firearms 150 All Other 800 Total 12,200
*From the National Safety Council 2008 Injury Facts publication
Under the age of fifteen, 16.1 percent of boys, and 12.1 percent of girls visit an emergency room every year due to an accident. From ages 15-19, the percentages increase to 21.7 percent for males, and 16.2 percent for females. Some of these injuries are life-altering.
(Source - 2005 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Latest statistics available.)
It wasn’t too long ago that children rode their bikes through the streets without wearing safety helmets. Car seats for children were flimsy contraptions that offered no protection. Potent medicines didn’t have safety caps to guard against curious children rifling through the medicine cabinet, and few parents gave serious thought to childproofing their houses.
Safety awareness has come a long way since then, yet most families still lack a systematic approach to safety. The information that is available comes to you in a variety of ways - magazines, newspapers, TV, and the School of Hard Knocks.
Rather than the traditional piecemeal approach, How To Help Your Child Avoid Our Accident Epidemic will give you and your family an organized and comprehensive way to address child safety issues.
Here's the good news!
Studies conducted by the National Safety Council,
and organizations such as DuPont and the U.S. Navy, show that
a proactive approach to safety will significantly reduce accidents.
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A unique feature of the Child Safety Booklet is the use of
light-humored illustrations and true stories to help get the points across.
Chevy Chase is paid to look foolish in a theme park. Tom and Debbie did it for nothing. From the minute they arrived at Disney World with son Michael and his pal, David, they lost control of the day. Chalk it up to too much adrenaline, and not enough planning. First, Debbie wore the wrong shoes. Cute but painful. Two hours later she's hobbling from blisters. Danny's parents didn't say he was allergic to hot dogs, or that he sunburned easily (and badly). And then there was the two hour episode when everybody got separated from one another and wandered aimlessly trying to link up because they hadn't established a meeting place. Thank goodness they weren't on a real African cruise. They would have ended up as crocodile bait.
The safety tips in the booklet came from hundreds of safety experts based upon years of observations. Every tip was recommended because someone was in a serious accident when that tip was not followed.
There are safety tips on 41 primary topics, plus additional tips on 17 topics.
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More About The Booklet And The Author
John Myre is the author of the award-winning family safety book, Live Safely in a Dangerous World. From 1992-2002, he was the editor and publisher of Safety Times, an off-the job safety publication for businesses and organizations. He founded the publication in 1992.
His prior experience includes thirty-four years as a financial and risk management executive with Southwestern Bell Corporation. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, he has achieved the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation. He has been a speaker at several safety conventions, has written articles for safety and risk management publications such as Professional Safety magazine and Business Insurance magazine, and is the author of the off-the-job safety chapter in Safety and Health Management Planning (Government Institutes, 1999).
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The updated topics in this booklet were originally published in the book Live Safely in a Dangerous World.
Awards for Live Safely in a Dangerous World
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Live Safely in a Dangerous World
is a proud winner of the 2006 Parent to Parent Adding Wisdom Award,
the only award program to ever be honored by Disney.com.
In the 2003 Independent Publisher Awards competition, which included more than 1,500 books, Live Safely in a Dangerous World was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Books of the Year. It won the award for the category “Most Likely To Save The Planet.”
The book also received an Honorable Mention award in the 2003 Writer’s Digest 10th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards competition, in the Nonfiction category. The book was one of 68 books honored. Over 2,100 books were entered.
In addition, a Chinese-language edition has been published in China.
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