Kids don t sweat like adults, so they don t have a built-in cooling mechanism. Replace fluids by having the youngster drink four to eight ounces of liquid every 30 minutes or so, and consult your pediatrician to make sure they recover all right. How much direct sun exposure a child has during their early years greatly affects the youngster s chance of developing skin cancer as an adult. That s not only in the summer at the beach or at the pool, that s all year long and on ski slopes, too. While you may think a suntan looks cool , it is really the skin s reaction to damage.
Slides take top honors as the major source of injury on playgrounds for pre-schoolers.
Kids fall off the top, slide into obstacles at the bottom or burn tender skin on hot metal surfaces. Sometimes older kids unintentionally harm the younger ones by letting go of a swing or seesaw abruptly, or just trying to occupy the same space at the same time. The best advice for kids who ride anything is to wear a safety helmet and protective pads on their knees and elbows. There are some real scary statistics about the number of children who are involved in fatal bike-related accidents each year. What s really sad is that in nine out of ten of them, the child wasn t wearing a helmet.