Put a STOP to bullying!

   I don't know if anyone noticed but the other day I posted a page about Bullying. I want to raise awareness about how destructive and serious this truly is. I think all of us standing together can make a difference. I know that we can change lives for the better and we need to continue doing it. Stand up for what is right and stop those from doing wrong.

   I have listed a lot of wonderful links on the Bullying Safety Page as well as some phone numbers that we should share with anyone who is being bullied. Please take a minute to read over the page so that you can also see how serious of a problem this has become.

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Top 5 List! Hidden Home Hazards.

   This is the Top 5 Hidden Home Hazards according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

Each year approximately 33 million people are injured by consumer products that are in the home. Some of these products are from what the agency has been giving warnings about for years; others are new technologies and products.

"The home is where people feel comfortable and secure, but constant awareness is the key to keeping families safe," said Acting Chairman Nancy Nord. "CPSC is aiming to increase awareness of the hidden hazards around the home in order to help consumers protect against these dangers."

By educating ourselves in the dangers that are in our home many lives can be spared and life-altering injuries avoided.

1. Magnets - Since 2005: 1 Death, 86 injuries and 8 million magnetic toys were recalled. Magnets have become more and more popular from hanging items on your fridge to your kids toys like building sets and jewelry. As the number of magnets used in children's toys goes up so does the injury caused by these magnets. These magnets can fall out of the child's toys making it a very small piece and be swallowed. If two or more magnets or a magnet and a piece of metal get swallowed separately by the child they can connect to each other through intestinal walls and get trapped in place. This type of injury is hard to diagnose. Though parents and doctors could assume that these will just pass through the child without consequence these magnets could attract in the body twisting and pinching the intestines, causing holes, blockages etc. if not treated properly and promptly. 
2. Recalled Products - Every year there are about 400 recalled items. CPSC is very effective at getting bad products off of the store shelves like recalled toys, appliances and electronics etc. But if you have the product in your home you will have to be the one on the lookout. Consumers need to be aware of the latest safety recalls to keep the dangerous products away from their families. (I have added the CPSC feed to the right of this page. It has the latest child-related recalls on it)
3. Tip-Overs - Average 22 deaths per year, 31 in 2006 and an estimated 3,000 injuries. Furniture, TV's and Ranges can tip over crushing your child. Most of the appliances anymore come with a mounting feature to mount them to a wall stud preventing them from falling over on your child. TV's placed on furniture like dressers or high stands can cause head trauma to a child even though today's TV's don't weigh a lot like the old days. 
4. Windows and Coverings - Estimated 12 deaths a year from window cords and 9 deaths 3,700 injuries from  window falls. If you have blinds or window coverings that use cords; these cords can wrap around your child's neck strangling them. Parents are better off using cordless blinds or keep the cords/chains permanently up and out of reach of any child. If the cord has a loop in the end of it you should cut that loop out and install a safety tassel at the end of each pull cord. NEVER place a child's crib or playpen within reach of a window blind. Kids love to play around windows, look out them etc. Unfortunately children can be injured or die if they fall out of one. Don't rely on the window screen as they are there to keep the bugs out, not to keep the kids in.
5. Pool and Spa Drains - The suction of a pool drain can be strong enough to pull an adult under water but most incidents involve children. The child's body can become sealed against the drain or their hair can be pulled into it making it virtually impossible for them to get out of the situation. Pool and spa owners should  install a Safety Vacuum Release System (SVRS), which will shut off the pool pump if it becomes blocked. 

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What would you like to see?

   Everyday I can think of a hundred different things that I can write about to keep our Families safe in one way or another. What I would like to do for a change is ask you what you would like to see me write about.

• Has anything effected you or your family that you think should be addressed? 
• Is there a safety tip that I haven't covered that you think would be very important to get out there for others to see? 
• Is there something that maybe you know a little bit about but would like to know more ways to prevent something from happening or teach your child about it? 

I will try to add any of the requests that I get in. If you don't see one right away it is because I am doing research. I honestly do my best in all of my postings to bring the most accurate and up to date information for you.

Send your ideas to kirbytheclown@gmail.com or leave them in the comments below!
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Moving Along

   Well I am sure you can see that the blog is growing every day. Today I have added a few more things; To the right you will see an FDA Recall/Safety Alerts and below that a US Consumer Product Safety Child Related Recalls. These are RSS feeds which means they will be updated automatically so you will have up to date information just like the Amber Alert and Missing Child Alert that I added Yesterday.

   I have also added a new page called Fire Safety. On this page you will find tons of information to keep your family safe in case of a fire. It includes selecting the proper safety devices and how to create a plan for your family to get out of the house/building safely.

  As I mentioned before I will be adding information to the Blog on a daily basis. If you have anything that you would like to see added to the Blog just let me know I would be more then happy to add it. I am so excited to have this take off and cant wait to start hearing from you. I would appreciate any and all feedback that you have just leave a comment or send an email to kirbytheclown@gmail.com and I will get back to ASAP.

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Few New Things!

  I added a few new thing to the blog yesterday that I would like to go over with everyone. I will go over all of them very briefly. If you have any questions please let me know. I will continue adding things to the blog and will update you as I add them.

   I added an Amber Alert Ticker to the top of the page (The white bar with scrolling text). This Ticker is made courtesy of support.amberalert.com. It is probably very noticeable but that was my point as I believe that it could help bring attention to as many of us as possible and maybe even save a life. If we can save even one person then I would be happy but wouldn't mind going for more!

   I added a Missing Children Alert Cases Feed to the Left hand side of the page. This is kept up to date by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. I feel this is very important as well. I feel if we raise awareness we can make a difference, possibly find some of these children or make parents/guardians aware that this is not something that we can say "It wont happen to me!". This is Very Real and needs to be take seriously.

    I also added a Advertiser and Sponsors Page. The reason I added this page is to have somewhere that I can post all of my paid sponsors and advertisers as well as trying to bring everyone good deals. I will keep everything there that is a paid advertisement as I believe Honesty and Trust is what this site should be based on. The reason for gaining Advertisers and Sponsors is so that I can continue to do local events and possibly start offering my subscribers some deals on products to help keep their children safe. Please make sure you stop in on my Advertiser and Sponsors Page once in a while and see if there is anything of interest to you as they are really helping me keep this blog and my efforts of local events going.

*NOTE*
The Amazon list to the left is a compiled list hand picked by me on items I believe would be great tools to help teach and keep your children safe.

   I want to say thank you for your continued support in getting this blog going. It is not an easy job to get there but we will. Off to the right you will see a Join This Site button, If you don't mind join this blog and share it with your friends and family. You can share it by simply hitting one of the buttons below: Email, Twitter or Facebook.

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Something Old, Something New

   Hello Everyone,

   The Old

   Yesterday I shared with you a website that you could find all sorts of crime in your area: https://www.crimereports.com/ . I was able to play around with it a bit and there's more then I wanted to see :-( . With that being said it brings up a good point of talking with our children about Stranger Danger and taking all of the safety precautions we can in our home such as making sure our windows and doors are locked every night and every time we leave the house. Remember to Practice, Practice, Practice the safety points in this site with your children so that it becomes 2nd nature to them.

The New

   Off to the left you will see an Amazon.com bar, this is a list of products that I personally went through and picked for teaching our children safety. I have not used all of them but I have done research on all of them and found good reviews on them. The only questionable one that I did find was the Child Identification card there is only one review on it and it was 1 star, However, this was because the individual thought this was a DNA test not a DNA sample and Finger Print Kit so I don't think we should count that one. There is one product that I did not put on the Amazon list that I would HIGHLY recommend and that is Eddie Eagle from the NRA. It is available on Amazon but it is more expensive then getting it from the NRA website. I have a link to it on the Firearm Safety page. 

*note* 

A Child Identification Card can also be downloaded and you can normally purchase fingerprint ink pads from a local office supply store. The website can be found on the Stranger Danger Page.

  I will be adding more pages to our blog here very soon as I think we need to cover Child Predators, Internet Safety, Water Safety, Safe Rooms, Fire Safety and much, much more. I think we can all work together to come up with a wonderful one-stop-shop for child safety and I would like your idea's on what you would like to have covered. I would also like to know if you would like to see a true stories page as well. Keep in mind that not all true stories have happy endings :-(

 

Please continue to support this page by sharing it with your friends and family on your social networking sights, blogs and word of mouth. I really do appreciate it as I would like to reach as many people as possible!

Wanted to share a website with you

   I have found a great site to get information on the crimes in your area. These will include Theft, Assault, Sexual offenses and much much more. It will allow you to submit tips about crimes you might know something about while remaining anonymous. Its simple to use here is the rundown of it.

Simply go to: https://www.crimereports.com/

  I want to add that you do not have to be a member to use this site, however you can become a member of the site by joining it in the top right hand corner where it says "join crimereports today". When you join you can have alerts sent to you via text, email or even get the RSS feed on things happening in your area. you can still post thing anonymously.

  The great thing about this site is it is becoming bigger and bigger. More and more agency's are starting to use it as it gives them more of an opportunity or civilians to give anonymous tips on crimes or to report crimes that might be happening in the area while staying completely anonymous.

Best of all its completely 100% FREE!!!

Here are the statistics for the last 2 years of this site, they have:

   Received 1.6 MILLION tips.

   Arrested 122,967 people

   45,529 fugitives caught

   10,959 stolen vehicles were recovered

   20,483 weapons were recovered

   $4.9 BILLION recovered in drugs and property

If that isn't success I don't know what is.

Please share this with your family and friends as well.

Welcome to Kids Safety Clown

Hello, My name is Kirby The Clown and I have been teaching kids safety for quite some time now and would like to spread the word to every kid I can as I believe it could save some very hard times for all of us.

My safety tips will be about Stranger Dangers, Saying NO to Drugs, Firearm Safety, Street Smarts, How to use 911, and more. I will try to keep up on various Safety Awareness Activities in various area's throughout the United States (this is hard to do so I could use your help).

 I am always open to ideas, comments and suggestions so please let me know. If you do have any comments or anything to add to any of the postings on this blog I ask that you keep it clean as there will be kids and parents viewing this blog. I will put a parents page up as well for the information that parents should be aware of and what I believe that they should work with their child on.

 This blog is not the end all be all of all safety and you and your child's safety should not be limited to what I do cover in this blog. I can not guarantee anything in this blog will stop or prevent any safety issues will not occur but we can try to prevent as much as we can by educating as many parents and children the dangers that are out there and how to possibly prevent them from becoming an issue.

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