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Bikes/wheels/bike helmets
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-- C --
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Early Physical Science
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-- F --
Fathering
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Fussy Eaters
-- H --
Halloween safety
Head Start
Hearing aids
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Hearing loss: your child and school
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Home Safety
Home safety
-- I --
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-- L --
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-- M --
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-- N --
Nature
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-- O --
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-- T --
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-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Water Safety
Weather safety
Adoption
American Sign Language
Auditory Oral/Auditory Verbal
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-- B --
Bikes/wheels/bike helmets
Booster seat safety
Brain Development
Burns, Prevention of
-- C --
Car Seat Safety
Child Abuse and Neglect
Child and Teen Checkups (C & TC)
Child Care
Childhood Stress
Choosing a Doctor
Cochlear implants
Community Resources
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Consideration, Learning
Creativity and Imagination
Cued Speech
-- D --
Death
Discipline
Dog bite prevention
-- E --
Ear infections and early learning
Early Childhood Family Education
Early Childhood Screening Program
Early Childhood Special Education
Early Math
Early Physical Science
Executive Function
Expectations for hearing aid usage
-- F --
Fathering
Fears
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Fussy Eaters
-- H --
Halloween safety
Head Start
Hearing aids
Hearing loss and early brain development
Hearing loss: your child and school
Home Alone
Home Safety
Home safety
-- I --
Immunizations
-- L --
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning loss: parent support for learning language
Learning to Read
Learning to Write
Lice
-- M --
Mild hearing loss
Military Families
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
-- N --
Nature
Newsletters
Nutrition
-- O --
Oral Health
Overview of communication choices
-- P --
Parenting Education Classes
Pedestrian safety
Permanent hearing loss
Play
Playground Safety
Poisoning, Preventing
Preparing for Siblings
-- R --
Radon
Raising Health Conscious Children
Readiness Activities Home for Math, Literacy and Science
Reading Aloud
Recreational water safety
-- S --
School Readiness
Second Hand Smoke
Social Development
Sports safety
Strangers
Stress and Your Child (see Childhood Stress)
Supporting Play in Three Easy Steps
-- T --
Talking to Your Child
Teaching Children about Money
Teaching Responsibility
Temper Tantrums
Toilet Training
Toy Safety
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Water Safety
Weather safety
Car Safety for Young Children
By Eileen Nelson, MA
Early Childhood Specialist
Minnesota Department of Education
Car safety is an important part of the overall responsibility of keeping your child safe. Never allow your child to ride in the car in someone's arms. In a sudden stop or accident she could be severely injured. All young children must be in car safety seats that are appropriate for an individual child's size, weight and stage of physical development. Children risk serious injury or harm if the car seat is too large or is not properly installed.
Choosing the Proper Seat
To protect your child, you need a car safety seat that is designed to protect your child at her stage of physical development and weight. There are several resources that will help you choose the type of seat your child needs including general information on choosing a car seat, specific information about the best car seat for your vehicle and ratings information about child safety seat ease of use.
Installing the Car Safety Seat Correctly
There are several styles of car seats and car models differ in the way a car seat is installed. Be sure to install the car seat correctly. Watch a video about installing the car seat correctly.
You must adjust your child's car seat as your baby grows. Pay attention to your child's weight and development and adjust the car safety seats as needed. Remember to always buckle your baby into the car seat before you drive away
