Category: Safety
Keep Your Home Safe This Summer – Don’t Advertise Vacation on Facebook
Editor’s Note: Today, the folks from Toronto-based Weiser Lock are here with some great reminders on how to keep your home safe while you are out and about enjoying vacation, road tripping or just a day at the beach this summer. 6 Tips for protecting your home on social media With Summer here, people are [...]
Get Kids Car Seats Double Checked, You'll Be Surprised
Editor’s Note: This morning we have Comox Valley mom and car seat safety technician Jen Shapka with us to talk about how important it is to have your kids car seats installed properly – and to have them double checked. I’ve always been of the mind that our seats were in properly, until an ICBC [...]
Emergency! Preparing for a Natural Disaster
After the unbelievable devastation from the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan this week, it surely has made many of us here on the West Coast of North America pause and think through our emergency preparedness in terms of our families, workplace and more. We live a very quiet life here on Vancouver Island with [...]
The Techno Family – Tune In, Turn On with Limits
Too much of anything is bad for you they say. Everything in moderation. You shouldn’t drink too much water, you shouldn’t eat too much food and you shouldn’t watch too much TV. The problem is determining just how much is too much-it’s just so indefinite. Mostly it’s a personal feeling that we know when we’ve [...]
Halloween Safety Tips from Street Smart Kidz
Editor’s Note: Good Morning. As Halloween is nearly upon us, Steven Baird from StreetSmart Kidz Canada has dropped by this morning to remind us of all of those important holiday safety tips for keeping everyone healthy on fright night. Here he is: The excitement of Halloween is already upon us. The stores are full of [...]
Safety First – First Aid for Wasp and Bee Stings
Like just about any other parent, I totally freaked when our daughter was stung on her arm and back by a wasp at a backyard gathering a few weeks ago. A large swath of dark, red rash took over her lower arm, scaring me so badly that we went directly to the walk-in clinic where [...]
Healthy Summer – Tips to Keep Kids Safe In The Water
I admit it, I’m going through a phase. You know, the one where everything that used to be fun and carefree now completely terrifies me when it comes to participating in it with a kiddo in tow. …and I only have one. Yikes! One of the biggest concerns now that the sun has returned from [...]
Product Review – The Hottest Sun Protection
With all of this unbelievable heat these days we are all headed directly for the beach or the lake to cool off and soak our feet in the water. One thing we all think about is making sure no one’s summer days get ruined by an awful, dangerous sunburn. But, the sun protection we put [...]
A Seasonal Primer on Cougar & Bear Safety
This spring seems to have really drawn out not only the humans, but lots of the large animals that live among us into places where we also like to roam. The number of cougar and black bear sightings near Comox Lake, in the Cumberland Community Forest and in other areas around the Comox Valley is [...]
How to Create Emergency Kits & Plan for Natural Disasters
So, yeah, Mother Nature has been having some very serious personal issues with us folks on Vancouver Island for the last week or so. It’s nerve wracking at these sort of times when you look around your house and realize that you’ve got one match, a tiny tea light, no stored water and the pantry [...]
Product Review – Hot Winter Lip Protection
Good morning. Blustery weather is as hard on the face as it is on the head, and as soon as the weather goes from sunshine to big rainy whine, I am always happy that my trusty lip gloss saves the family’s collection of dry lips from inevitable degeneration. We always find that Winter weather seems [...]
Family Fitness – Safety Keeps You Fit on the Trails
Editor’s Note: Good Morning. Today we’re hanging out with Equilibrium Lifestyle Management owner Sarah Seads as she gets us geared up for long Spring days out on the trails or at the beach. After this crazy Winter, I know I’m totally excited to get back out there and spend some quality time working out and [...]
Keeping Kids Safe
This week marked a grim time when the first Amber Alert ever to be issued on Vancouver Island came out of the Comox Valley. Although the details haven’t been released about a 10-year-old who was allegedly abducted by a 32-year-old local man, it has sparked more than a bit of fear in the hearts of [...]
How Much Is Too Much Safety
I have a reoccurring waking nightmare that I am always just out of reach as our daughter falls off of a cliff, slips off the side of a building or tumbles down a 1,000 meter embankment. When I watch her run to the railing at the Comox Pier or the Courtenay Estuary and peek her [...]
Safety First – Major MEGA Brand Recall
CVK Mom Robin – AKA Another Robin – just sent me a note about a major recall from the makers of MEGA Blocks. More than 1.3 millions MagnaMan Magnetic Action Figures are being recalled because swallowed magnets may cause aspirational and intestinal trauma. The small magnets inside the figures are known to detach and if [...]
Safety First – Aqua Dots Recall
As if we hadn’t seen enough toy recalls this year, Tornoto-based Spinmaster Toys (their websites were entirely inaccessible this morning) is now recalling its entire Aqua Dots line after it was discovered that the coating on the plastic used in the dots “can turn toxic if swallowed” according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. [...]
Safety First – Bumbo Baby Sitter Recall
I’ll be back later this afternoon with some spooky crafting ideas. But, breaking safety news trumps Halloween crafts. When a pal who owns a kids store in San Francisco first showed the Bumbo Baby Sitter to me before our daughter was born, I thought I had been saved from the curse of the tacky high [...]
Safety First – Water Quality at Local Beaches
I’m pretty sure it never really crossed my mind to wonder if a local beach was safe to swim at until I had kiddos. But, neither did a whole realm of potential health hazards that I am now more than a little neurotic about. I guess I assumed that beaches around here just can’t be [...]
