Keeping Your Young Ones Safe In and Outside The Home

With Halloween upon us, many parents are thinking about how to keep their children safe. And while precautions like staying on sidewalks, carrying a flashlight and sticking to familiar neighborhoods are important, parents and caregivers should also be concerned with potential hazards inside the home.

That’s why a new series of online public service announcements has been created.

Besides making sure all of your electrical outlets are covered and baby proofing your cabinets, the PSAs were created in an effort to educate parents about the potential hazards of window cords. According to information provided by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, since 1990 more than 200 infants and young children have died from accidentally strangling in window cords.

“The first thing so many new parents do these days is go online to get parenting information,” said Window Covering Safety Council Executive Director Peter Rush. “We wanted to create a series of public service announcements that would appeal to this younger demographic, to provide them with safety information that is both educational and entertaining.”

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