Course Project: Creating a Child Health, Safety, and Nutrition Blog- Week One-Section (1)
Marilyn Dorrough
EDUC-1005-1 Child, Health, Safety and Nutrition
Walden University
March 10, 2012
Dr. Erin Eissler
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Section (1) Safety Practices and Policies: Focus will be working with infants and toddlers. Children of this age are prone to desire knowledge, pry and even tamper with items that they come in contact with. We as adults must safe guard our young children as much as possible from the many dangers they may become exposed to yet at the same time not limit them from exploring.
Identifying five potentially hazardous situation and or safety threats common to infants and toddlers goes as follow. Key national indicators of well-being (2007) posted” that the unintentional injury is now the leading cause of death and disability for children in the United States and Canada” (Schwebel and Gaines, 2007) Case in point Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been a mystery in the medical world for many years with all the research done on this condition still today we as parents are puzzled and have grave concerns about what can and should be done in regards to sleeping our young children. Polices state that: “SIDS can occur at any time and sleeping children on their backs helps reduced the risk of SIDS.” Family can place infants on their backs while the infant is sleeping at home and check on the child often.
Second potentially hazardous situation and or safety that come to mind would be that in which involves “falls” children at this age have no regrettable consequences therefor moving fast and extending their abilities while learning is what they are all about. Falling down stairs can prove to be very dangerous to infants and toddlers infant walker devices are one of the causes as well as climbing and running. “Three out of four children in walkers fall down the stairs (NSKC, 2007)” Gates and closing doors limit the chance of children falling down stairs but we as parents must also be proactive in allowing children to roam free and explore safely.
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We as parents have the responsibility of protecting our children from harm but providing them with the proper equipment to keep them safe.
Third hazardous situation “burns and scalds” upon cooking or perhaps bathing an infant or toddler we must be every so conscious of the dangers or hot boiling water. Taking a few minutes to test the water temperature upon putting the baby in the water is common sense. While cooking infants and toddlers should be in a designated area free from harm “prevention is the single most significant factor in risk management for safety (Schnitzer, 2006)”
Forth situation falls under the category of “chocking and suffocation” in the world of infant and toddlers everything becomes that of a hazardously nature do to the fact that children of this age are very oral. Their mouth becomes exposed to everything. Food can even sometimes become a danger for these little people. Parents and caregivers have the challenge of preventing them from chocking to death. A couple things we can partake in would be not allowing children to play with or come in contact with toys or objects that are small enough to become lodged in their windpipe. Keep chock-tester handy at all times. And limit children from being exposed to dangerous materials such as plastic bags and or toys not age appropriate. “Most injury-related deaths for infants results from suffocation (Schnitzer, (2006)”
Lastly “drowning” children left un-attended for a short period of time in a small amount of water can drown to death. There is never a reason children should be left alone during water time. Toilets, tubs, swimming pools, water tables all pose a danger to children left alone. We as parents must never take for granted children are safe around water. “Drowning is the second major cause of death to children under the age of 5 (American Heart Association, 2005)”
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References
American Heart Association (2005) Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education 4th Edition
Retrieved from course text book March 10, 2012
Key National Indicators of Well-Being (2007) Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education
4th Edition Retrieved from course text book March 10, 2012
NSKC (2007) Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education 4th Edition Retrieved
March 10, 2012 from course text book
Schnitzer (2006) Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education 4th Edition Retrieved
March 10, 2012 from course text book
Schnitzer (2006) Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education 4th Edition Retrieved from
Course text book March 10, 2012
Schwebel and Gains (2007) Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education 4th Edition
Retrieved from course text book March 10, 2012
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