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WHAT'S YOUR HOME SAFETY IQ?OPEN THE DOOR FOR CHILD SAFETY!
A new era in child safety!
CHILDREN'S SAFETY DEMANDS EDUCATION!
What you don't know, will hurt you!Safety Physics - to enable us! The biggest prize of all - a safe child!With “remaining alive” as the prize - you would think most people would be concerned with safety. Wrong! Why is something so that is so important ignored by so many people? We all need to connect to the professionals on the Internet! The experts will help you to make your home safe. So please visit several of the safety web sites available through our SAFETY LINKS!COME HERE TO LEARN ABOUT SAFETY!There is no easy answer, however for many adults, “ignorance is bliss” and if someone doesn’t “know better” they continue on with life until something happens. For those who do have limited understanding of the potential dangers in their environments at home their safety is provided by "luck". Children's safety improves with training!Even if a person has no formal training, they can apply "common sense" in their efforts to avoid injury. For example if a "safe" is being lifted into a 3rd story window, they may decide; they should not stand underneath the safe. “Common sense" is necessary but it will only carry you so far, for many dangers are hidden.For others, they may live in a "fantasy world" created in their minds to provide a "comfort zone". Addressing danger can be an unsettling experience. We all do it, denial, to some extent but it can be a serious error. Danger doesn't go away simply because we don't acknowledge it! MANAGE DANGER WITH INTELLIGENCE!!Egos can induce stupidity! The notion that "I won't be hurt" comes from a human condition that allows our "self importance" to interfere “intelligence". In our youth, there is prevailing notion is that death is something happens to older or other people. Managing our "self importance" is affects professionals including pilots.
We should learn from our mistakes!When we have an accident occurs, our resume' doesn't matter. It is all about energy and physics. A fall from the top of the ladder will produce the same results based on how high you are, how you land (on your head), and what you land on (concrete) for either a doctor or a homeless person. When something does happen, many people look philosophically at the accident as "just part of life." We have all heard comments like, "He was at the wrong place and the wrong time!" ...into the side of an "18 wheeler"!What about the possibility that the accident occurred because "the victim" was never taught fundamental safety principles, including the affects of driving his motorcycle into the side of an "18 wheeler"? We as a society don't gain anything if we can't understand why the accident happened and what we can do to prevent another. Fortunately, safety has improved either by governmental actions or through the efforts by concerned corporations like Ford Motor Company (1956 - seat belts and a padded dash). The "general public" have been the benefactors of these advances. Such things as locking medicine caps, seat belts, child seats, and on and on – are things which help everyone including those who disregard safety. 
We need some lights to come on!Somethings cannot be replaced!Adults sometimes just don’t think that safety applies to them in a certain situation. This attitude can prevail for years and then one day it all catches up to them. “I have always done it that way before and nothing went wrong!” is the typical response! Safety is no game. There are rules that we need to follow and if we don’t - expect the worst. Sometimes the lesson comes too late!However, when it comes to your children, all these factors are different. They deserve protection from you and the training so they can protect themselves. There are no guarantees even with training but parents must still make training mandatory along with remaining their "watchful guardians". Child safety training should never replace our basic responsibility to; "protect our children”. The “human element”, a resistance to safety, is one of the great barriers for safety. Humans don’t like to be told what to do and we tend to be stubborn. Sometimes an accident will become the motivator to change a person. This is not a good way to learn for sometimes the lesson comes too late! Motivation gives meaning to safety!
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