Summer Safety: 8 Reasons Kids End Up in the ER—and How to Prevent It

alright so im a kid, but honestly? not letting your kid get a trampoline?! i GURENTEE you that your child got to college and instantley hit a bong, pipe etc.. or he drank like a mofo and then when he asks for 'college money' no thats his weed money. so yeah your retarted. you have to let your kids have some wiggle room. a little bad stuff is healthy because when they get to college they go crazy. it happened to my brother. my mom learned from her mistake and now gives me freedom, im not a pothead, i dont drink, i dont have sex, cause i know right from wrong.

cole of KS 9:17AM April 07, 2011

My children are now adults, but trampolines were popular when they were young too. I resisted pressure to buy one and I am glad. There is no reason why any parent should get one of these for their children. Sooner or later someone is going to get hurt. Many toys and exercise devices are available that are much safer than trampolines. Broken arms and legs are bad, but broken necks and backs are horrible. Even the so called safety devices sold to go around the trampolines are pretty worthless, what if a child does a "flip" and lands on his head? Be smart and delete this reason from the list. The manufacturers and sellers of trampolines will find something else to import and sell and will not lose any profit at all. Prove to your children that you really love them.

PS I'm curious mauricio where is XX?

Jean from Pa of PA 8:34PM September 02, 2009

Good advice here about water, but bicycle helmets are specifically designed to reduce acceleration of a metal headform sliding down a two-metre wire, by crushing the foam of the helmet. It appears that in real accidents crushing is excessively rare; all the pictures I have seen are of helmets that have cracked, that is to say, failed. Engineers including the chief engineer of Bell Helmets also report that they do not see crushed foam, check the references on the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet. It may be relevant that heads are softer and less good at crushing foam than are metal headforms. Good quality epidemiological work (Robinson DL. No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets. BMJ. 2006 March 25; 332(7543): 722–725. doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7543.722-a. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16565131) finds no visible effect of mass helmet use on the proportion of head injury among cyclists. In short it is very doubtful if bicycle helmets actually offer any meaningful protection at al, and they have strangled children. Cycling is healthy, it's safe and should be safer, but helmets don't seem to offer anything useful.

Richard Keatinge 11:26AM July 25, 2009

I was asking the same question as the person above until I looked further into the article...notice there are 2 pages. The other seven are:

Bike accidents

Motor vehicle-related accidents

Pedestrian accidents

Burns

Falls

Accidental strangulation

Trampoline injuries

Good to know YMCA is so diligent about child safety though- good catch!

Cindy of WY 4:33PM June 25, 2009