KID Blog

This summer KID’s TEST (Teaching Early Safety Testing) program is getting a makeover. This KID program is designed to promote the development of safe products by integrating design safety, standards, and testing practices into the undergraduate engineering curriculum.  We have… Read More

I have been traveling all around Illinois this past month and talked with hundreds of people about child product safety. Here are some highlights from my travels: Last month, in Springfield, Illinois, I met with over 30 grandparent caregiver advisers… Read More

On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Baby Matters LLC announced a settlement of the administrative case CPSC filed late last year after five deaths in the infant sleep product.  In addition to the deaths, there were… Read More

As the students at Northwestern University are finishing up their spring quarter, the freshman engineering students proudly presented their final design products. Four teams of students worked with Kids In Danger (KID) developing prototypes to address design problems that had… Read More

Early in 2010, KID learned of two deaths involving crib bumper pads.  One was six month old Aiden in Texas, the other, 2 month old Preston in Alaska.  These preventable deaths strengthened our resolve to warn parents about the dangers… Read More

Check out some pictures of this year’s event. Join KID at our annual Best Friend Award Night May 23, 2013 at Fulton’s on the River in Chicago.  KID and our supporters will gather to mark our 15th year and a… Read More

This Sunday is Mother’s Day, a day when many of us delight in our children and our moms.  It is reminder of the precious gift of children – and a chance for those children to honor their mothers for the… Read More

When Danny Keysar died, both his parents and his caregiver were shocked to find the product had been previously recalled and Danny wasn’t the first child to die.  A key part of KID’s mission is to educate parents and caregivers about unsafe… Read More

National Volunteer Week gives us here at KID a great opportunity to sit back and reflect on all the great work our volunteers do for the KID organization every day. In March alone, volunteers served a total of 135 hours… Read More

First the good news… Maryland’s legislative session ended with no further action on SB 618 which was an attempt to stop the ban on the sale of crib bumper pads which is to go into effect in June.  With that,… Read More