Winter Safety Tips for Parents and Children

• 2002

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PMID: 20046271DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fpch%2F7.1.33

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This article provides comprehensive winter safety tips for parents and children. It emphasizes the importance of supervision, proper clothing, and safe practices during activities such as skating, skiing, snowboarding, sledding, and snowmobiling. Key advice includes using helmets, avoiding extreme weather, ensuring warm and dry clothing, and maintaining safe play areas. It also warns against dangerous behaviors like playing on snow banks or throwing snowballs. The information is from the Canadian Paediatric Society and aims to help families enjoy winter activities safely. It can be reproduced and shared without permission.

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Focus Area: Severe Weather

Audiences: Families & Children; Schools & Childcare Providers

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Accidental Falls; Child; Child Welfare; Frostbite; Craniocerebral Trauma; Ice; Physicians; Protective Clothing; Safety; Skiing; Wrist Injuries; Adolescent; Abdominal Injuries; Extreme Weather

Institutions: Canadian Pediatric Society

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