How to Keep Your Kids Out of the ER This Summer

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How to Keep Your Kids Out of the ER This Summer
Emergency physician says make safety your top priority to avoid seasonal threats

By Robert Preidt
Tuesday, July 4, 2017


TUESDAY, July 4, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Make sure safety is part of kids' summer fun.

"With kids spending more time outdoors, there is more opportunity for everything from broken bones, sprains, strains and lacerations, to tick bites and heat stroke," said Dr. James Dwyer, director of emergency medicine at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_167019.html

[Joe Wooten]

Hell, raising 4 very active boys, the wife and I were on a first name basis with the ER folks in Granbury, Tx and Joliet, IL.

The only way to avoid that is to keep them penned up in their rooms covered in bubble wrap.....

[Mom MD]

Hell, raising 4 very active boys, the wife and I were on a first name basis with the ER folks in Granbury, Tx and Joliet, IL.

The only way to avoid that is to keep them penned up in their rooms covered in bubble wrap.....

That so  many parents are willing to do just that is why we have raised a nation of snowflakes.  Of course I don't want children to get hurt, but bumps and bruises are part of growing up

[Wingnut]

If you don't chip or knock a tooth out and break a few bones as a kid because your helicopter mom is organising your play dates till you are 16 years old........you are gonna be stuffed into a locker with a used kotex necklace and have your tighty whities pulled up over your neck.

[Joe Wooten]

That so  many parents are willing to do just that is why we have raised a nation of snowflakes.  Of course I don't want children to get hurt, but bumps and bruises are part of growing up

AND concussions, broken bones (hand, wrist), banged up knees, one ripped up his hands climbing a chain link fence (45 stitches), another pulled an old fashioned 24" tube TV down on him at age 4, needed 10 stitches in his forehead.....

[Wingnut]

AND concussions, broken bones (hand, wrist), banged up knees, one ripped up his hands climbing a chain link fence (45 stitches), another pulled an old fashioned 24" tube TV down on him at age 4, needed 10 stitches in his forehead.....

Black and White or Color?

[Joe Wooten]

Black and White or Color?

Color, bought it in 1994......

[Wingnut]

Color, bought it in 1994......

Kid deserved a butt whoopin after his er visit then.  Those things we not cheap back then!

 


     

[roamer_1]

Hell, raising 4 very active boys, the wife and I were on a first name basis with the ER folks in Granbury, Tx and Joliet, IL.

The only way to avoid that is to keep them penned up in their rooms covered in bubble wrap.....

Dittos. And that was before rodeo.

[rodamala]

I find that the youth are more inclined to eff around on their smartphones all day, rather than ride their bike down the driveway, hitting a ramp at 40 and launching clear over the hedges on the other side of the road.

Good times.

[roamer_1]

"ramp"

Good times.

Yeah...

[rodamala]

Yeah...

@roamer_1

Where have all the childhood heroes gone?



That guy was a God in our neighborhood... when I was a kid.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1

Where have all the childhood heroes gone?

That guy was a God in our neighborhood... when I was a kid.

I know, right?

My ol bike, a Sears 'Spyder Super 44 Drive' complete with banana seat, sissy bar, and racing gearshift on the bar wound up with a red white and blue paint job... I'd jump that ol girl 187 feet in the air every day... They just don't make em like that anymore :D

[rodamala]

I know, right?

My ol bike, a Sears 'Spyder Super 44 Drive' complete with banana seat, sissy bar, and racing gearshift on the bar wound up with a red white and blue paint job... I'd jump that ol girl 187 feet in the air every day... They just don't make em like that anymore :D

@roamer_1

One of the older kids in the hood actually had an Evel Knievel bike.

Solid.
Flashy.
Hip.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fVC_wPN8qo