Remember, infants and children up to the age of five are very fragile and vulnerable to head trauma and brain damage that affect different parts of their body. Unfortunately, some people do not realize that a baby's neck muscles aren't strong enough to control head movements. Therefore, rapid movement of the baby's head can result in the brain being bruised because the brain is actually being bounced against the skull wall. This can result in a serious, devastating injury.
Some professionals attribute ignorance of the dangers of shaking a contributing factor.
Well, be ignorant no more. Please, read and pass on this information to others so that together we might save a child from being a victim. Sometimes parents become frustrated over toilet training, or feeding problems. Sometimes the parent is just tired and becomes annoyed when the child interrupts their television viewing or reading etc. Whatever the reason, the hard cold fact is that too many children are being subjected to the consequences of their care-givers low tolerance level.