A heat wave hit middle Tennessee this week. We reached temperatures of over 100 degrees.
It is so important to take an extra look each time you get out of your car.
Wheresbaby.org says "Although it might be hard to understand how this can happen, most parents who leave their children behind simply forgot. In most of these tragedies, parents became distracted. They were distracted because they were thinking about work issues, or simply fell into a daily routine that, on a usual day, did not involve responsibility for a young child.
If you make it a habit to leave your phone (or, some other item) in the back seat area every time that you buckle your child into their seat, you will be giving yourself some added insurance against the unthinkable"
Tips to
Avoid Child Heatstroke From
"Always Look
Before You Lock
- Always
check the back seats of your vehicle before your lock it and walk away.
- Keep
a stuffed animal or other memento in your child’s car seat when it’s
empty, and move it to the front seat as a visual reminder when your child
is in the back seat.
- If
someone else is driving your child, or your daily routine has been
altered, always check to make sure your child has arrived safely."
"Keep in Mind
a Child’s Sensitivity to Heat
- In
10 minutes, a car’s temperature can rise over 20 degrees.
- Even
at an outside temperature of 60 degrees, the temperature inside your car
can reach 110 degrees.
- A
child dies when his/her body temperature reaches 107 degrees".
On our Tadpoles App there is a great feature to help. You can set up notifications via email as soon as your child is checked in. This is a great feature if you have more than one person who drops off and picks-up your child. To set up notifications go log-in the app, go under settings, the select yes for "receive real-time check-in notifications"
Other helpful websites:
- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationwww.safercar.gov/parents/InandAroundtheCar/heatstroke.htm
- Department of Geosciences - San Francisco State Universitywww.ggweather.com/heat/
- Safe Kids Worldwidewww.usa.safekids.org/heatstroke
- USA Todaywww.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/07/child-heatstroke-deaths-cars/12292581/
- Kids and Carshttp://www.kidsandcars.org/
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