Why are You Risking Your Child’s Health?

I see so many people doing this, but I’m not sure that they are that aware they are doing it. These are some ways that you might be risking your child’s health without realising it.

Passive smoking.

Some people think that because they don’t smoke in the house that they are not passing on their smoke to their kids. Then you see them out and about, pushing their prams, holding their kids in their arms and smoking. Like being outside makes much of a difference, you children are still close enough to breath your smoke.

Wearing coats in car seats.

Its something a lot of people don’t know but it is in most manuals telling you not to put your child in a coat and then in a car seat. As the straps cannot be done up tight enough. If you test it out, put your child in the seat with a coat on, then take your child out but don’t loosen or tighten the strap, then put them back in without a coat and you will be surprised just how much space is there.

Not wrapping up warmly outside.

Its winter, its cold, just because you don’t feel you need to wear lots of layers it doesn’t mean your child feels the same way, wrap them up with lots of different layers if you are taking them out in this weather, and don’t forget their hat and mitten’s, we don’t want their little hands getting cold do we?

Driving while talking on your mobile while your children are in the car.

Do I really need to explain this one? Driving and talking on the phone is wrong anyway, your putting your life at risk and anyone else who happens to be on the same road as you, but why would you do it with your children in the car. Do you really want to be that person who spends everyday of their life regretting not paying more attention to the road, that person who spends every day in the cemetery wishing they could turn back time?

These are things that I see daily, and it drives me mad, do people not realise just how precious children are, or are they not ware of the harm they could be doing?