It’s hard to let go, but the safest way for your child to slide is solo.
As the holidays approach, sugar highs and cabin fever loom. If you are in search of a little sanity, a trip to the playground could be just what the doctor ordered. But before you bundle up and head out, theCenters for Disease Control
, more than 200,000 kids are injured on playgrounds each year. Of these injuries, 17 percent of them take place on slides. While burns from hot slides and falls account for a portion of these injuries, it may surprise you that holding there’s another big contributor to slide-related injuries and it often involves parents.at the AAP have found that when an adult holds a child while going down a slide, it significantly increases the chance the child could break their leg.
While many parents are often surprised to learn that sliding solo is safer, a growing number of parents and pediatricians are posting their personal stories and warnings on social media. Samantha Faranda, a mom blogger shared her own cautionary tale earlier this year after her son Elijah’s leg got caught while sliding with dad. The incident left her little boy with a fractured tibia and a cast for three weeks. “Elijah is being such a trooper through all of this but our hearts still hurt that just having a fun day at the park turned into this and having proper knowledge could have possibly prevented it,” Faranda added in the caption of her post.
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