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s/o carseat installation. What's your hot button safety issue?
I've noticed that most moms have one or two things they worry about most with regard to their children's safety. The carseat post reminded me of this. I have a friend who worries about her children falling, and another one who really worries about choking. When I was a new mom, I worried my baby was going to stop breathing at night.
Now that we're in the toddler/preschool phase, my safety issue is without a doubt swimming pools. With all the pools in our neighborhod and the length of swimming pool season in Texas, I obsess about keeping my children from drowning. I'm always amazed at people with young children who don't fence their pools or have any safety barriers in place whatsoever. Or moms who bring several non-water safe children to a public pool with only one adult to supervise all of them.
As a parent, what safety issues are most important to you? Is there one in particular that you dwell on?
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Re: s/o carseat installation. What's your hot button safety issue?
exactly what Kelley said. Our MDO parking is just an accident waiting to happen. I get scared enough with one, much less with two.
Also, my "there's nothing I can do about it but it still scares me to death" fear is cancer. One of Josh's co-workers just had their 17 month old son diagnosed with leukemia and I actually threw up when I heard the news.
j+k+m+e | running with needles
The pool and like other said our MDO parking lot.
The reason I say MDO parking lot is because that's the only place we go that ds is not going to be in a basket or stroller leaving the car walking into the place we are going. He won't hold my hand so I'm super scared he's going to get hit by a car because he wont stay as close to me as I would like.
Kidnapping. I am the more vigilant mom at Lupe's that is NOT off at a table way far away boozing it up with her other mom friends. I am too busy keeping an eye on my kid (especially if at all corwded) for fear she'd get kidnapped.
It's always been a fear, even before I had a kid.
Besides carseats... just about everything.
I was going to say everything mentioned already except for falling... but then I realize that I worry about falling when she's on the playground and spot her when she climbs those stupid weird shaped ladders that every playground seems to have. But I'm getting better I think. I don't want to be a helicopter parent!
Kidnapping is #1 for me. I have this recurring nightmare that I'm overpowered in a parking lot while loading/unloading my car and someone snatches my kid and runs off. I also fear drowning, and I worry about when he's older and goes to other kids' houses whose parents may have guns that aren't unloaded and locked up.
For some reason I don't worry much about choking, but if my mother so much as sees Ian clear his throat when he's eating she's all "OH! OH HE'S CHOKING! AMY IAN'S CHOKING!" And I look over and he's fine.
drowning and gun safety as well.
I had a friend who lost her daugther when she drowned in their bathtub at home, while bathing with her sibling.
and i also knew someone growing up who shot their sibling when they were playing with a gun at home. if addie's going to a house without me i always ask about guns. i know she's young but it's a habit to ask now.
Kidnapping. My mom and her BFF got married and had babies (me) at the same time. They grew up two houses apart, and their parents lived there for something like 40 years. When I was around 2 my mom's BFF's son was kidnapped from the front yard of his grandparents house and murdered.
I have nightmares about someone snatching him from his room ala Jon Benet Ramsey. It's making me panicky just thinking about it.