Happy Summer! For many kids across the United States, this time of year signifies a brief freedom from school. It is a great time for spending time playing with friends, going on family vacations, taking trips to the beach, playground fun, swimming, boating, camping and other outdoor activities. Regrettably, injuries do not take vacations and many kids receive serious injuries during the summer months. So much so that summer is recognized as “trauma season” among public health and medical professionals in the U.S. due to the increase in serious injuries and accidental deaths among children during these months.
Shriners Hospitals for Children® – On Track for a Safe Summer Live Event
My daughters and I had the pleasure of being invited, along with nine other “mommy bloggers” and their children, to the Shriners Hospitals for Children® – On Track for a Safe Summer Live Event in Sacramento, California earlier this week! Shriners Hospitals for Children® designed this event to help parents and caregivers ensure kids enjoy a happy, safe, injury-free summer by offering prevention tips and strategies.
I was excited to be asked to attend and share the great summer safety information with my readers. Shriners Hospitals for Children® is such a great organization that strives to achieve excellence in pediatric research and treatment. Many thanks to Shriners Hospitals for Children® for inviting me to this important event and sponsoring this post.
My kids love being outdoors, and summer is a time of energy and excitement when it comes to playing in the backyard, hiking, and swimming. We had such a wonderful time and learned some great tips and received lots handouts for having a fun and safe summer.
The kids went go through a series of interactive prevention stations designed to promote playground, swimming, boating, lawn mower and fire safety. Personally, I appreciated and benefited from each of the interactive stations and have learned more about how to prevent summer related accidents.
Interactive Prevention Stations
Here are some of the tips I learned at each station:
Safety Tip 1: Always wear sunscreen when outdoors.
Safety Tip 2: Never play on or around a lawn mower.
Safety Tip 3: Always wear a Coast Guard-approved, properly fitted life jacket.
Safety Tip 4: Never play with or near fire.
Safety Tip 5: Never swim alone or go near water without an adult present.
Safety Tip 6: Putting words into action on the playground.
About Shriners Hospitals for Children®
Shriners Hospitals for Children® is the leader in specialty pediatric care and rehabilitation. The Shriners Hospitals for Children®staff provides expert pediatric surgical and rehabilitative care for children with orthopedic conditions, spinal cord injuries, burns, and other surgical needs, despite the ability of the family to pay. The hospital is largely funded through private donations.
I hope this blog post helped to inspire you to learn more about playground, swimming, boating, lawn mower and fire safety to help reduce any risks of accidents or injuries this summer.
The Shriners Hospitals for Children® website has a lot of great safety information for parents, guardians, and caregivers. For additional safety tips and activity pages for children, please visit http://bit.ly/OTSafeSummer.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Shriners Hospitals for Children®.
22 responses to “Shriners Hospitals for Children® : On Track for a Safe Summer”
The Shriners is such a great organization. They do so much good. I love all of these tips you shared here today.
What a fun looking event! And I love that you were able to learn so much about summer safety! We can never do too much with our kids to keep them safe.
When I was a kid, I was in a Shriners hospital. They wanted to keep me for a year…. I screamed so loud, they decided to let me go home. Great safety tips!
Looks and sounds that it was really interesting event. I have to check out the safety information on the Shriners Hospitals for Children website.
This looks like such a fun and interesting event and would be a great place to bring kids!
Those tips sound like common sense to me and probably to most adults. It is the children who must be taught all this just as we were.
Yes, that is what this event was for.
This is really great! Looks like they did a great job on making a fun event for kids to learn how to stay safe.
Shriners hospital sounds like a great organization for ensuring kids’ welfare. I agree 101% on the those tips too!
The Shriners sounds like a great organization for ensuring kids’ safety. Those are amazing tips too to stay safe while having fun!
These are all great safety tips. This is one cool organization and they are helping a lot of people.
They seem like common sense cautions, but kids are just s curious. It’s always a good idea to send that message home again.
Looks like a very fun event! I love how much Shriner’s does for children. They are such a fabulous organization. These were all wonderful summer safety tips too!
What a great event! Shriners is a great organization and those are all such great tips presented in a fun way:-)
What a great organization! We have a Shriners hospital in St. Louis and they are known for doing wonderful things in our community.
What an awesome event with a great cause! That’s great that you were able to attend.
These also are great tips for new parents. I’m going to be one soon, so it was refreshing to read something that will be useful later on!
These are great tips to remember in the summer!
This looks like an awesome event. Everyone looks like they had a great time. Thanks for sharing your fabulous time
What a fun party with such a great purpose. Summer really does introduce a new set of things kids need to be careful for and education is definitely important.
It really does. I learned a lot.
I think it’s wonderful that you put this post up. We had an incident on the 4th. Luckily, it turned out okay.
Shriner’s Hospital is such a great organization. These are some great tips.