The last thing any parent wants to see is their child with a bleeding head. Head injuries are common in children because they like to play and display no fear. If you suspect that your child has a head injury, learn how to handle it.
We were all children once. Getting hurt, while playing, was considered a sign of courage. But, you don’t want to grow into adulthood showing those same scars. Here are some safe ways to treat childhood cuts and scrapes.
What determines how quickly a separation ends is whether the child knows to stay put and whether the adult tells staff immediately. Both can be arranged in five minutes before leaving the house.
Almost half of all serious burns happen to children under two, and about half of them in the kitchen. The first aid that changes the outcome, the remedies that make it worse, when it needs a hospital, and the permanent changes that keep working on the day attention runs out.
A bike that fits, brakes that work, lights after dark and proper training do more than anything else. What the law actually requires, and the helmet fitting rule that older advice gets backwards.
What determines how a night out goes is settled before anyone leaves the house. The way home, the phone call that has to be free, spiking and what Ask for Angela is for, what the drinking law actually says, and an honest word about self-defence classes.
Sexual health services are confidential, including for under-16s, and the exceptions are narrow enough to state exactly. Where to go, what is free, the age of consent, contraception and emergency contraception, testing, the HPV vaccination and consent.
Gagging is loud and normal; choking is silent. What to do for a baby under one and for a child over one, how to prepare food to reduce the risk, the non-food hazards, and why a swallowed button battery is a different emergency.
The hazards that actually put small children in hospital are a short list, and a handful of permanent changes deals with most of them. Including two pieces of standard American advice that are wrong here.
Sold as sleep aids, but NHS guidance says not overnight and for twenty to thirty minutes at a time. What the randomised trial actually found, the ten per cent weight rule, the circumstances in which one should not be used, and why none of it applies to a baby.
Stranger danger has been deliberately retired by the organisations working on child abduction, because it aims at the wrong people, leaves a lost child unable to ask for help, and relies on a test no child can apply. What replaced it is a rule about going somewhere, and it applies to everyone.