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This year, April 2-8 is National Window Safety Week. We’ve covered a few aspects on window safety on the KID blog in the past, but this week serves as a yearly reminder to raise awareness about window safety and injury… Read More

A recent study from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing looked into how parents around the world make decisions about where their infants sleep each night. The researchers wondered: what factors go into parents’ decisions about their infants’ sleep environments?… Read More

It’s that time of the year again, when we send our children off to school for another year of learning, socializing, and a great deal of fun. In tandem with the CPSC’s “Safety is the New Cool” message, KID is… Read More

It’s been a great and busy week for the Safe for the Start program at KID. Here is the peak of the program’s education and outreach efforts just this week: Tuesday We headed out to Gage Park High School on… Read More

On April 22, 2015 HB 3761 (McAsey) passed the Illinois House. This bill bans the sale of crib bumper pads in Illinois (already banned in Chicago). An amazing coalition of organizations came together to make this possible. Virtually every health… Read More

KID was founded by parents who lost their sixteen month old son when he was strangled in the top rails of a dangerous portable crib.  Danny’s parents channeled their grief into social action that has contributed greatly to the safety… Read More

Update: HR 5348(McAsey-Pihos) passed the Illinois House Consumer Protection Committee on 3/25 by a vote of 9-5.  Illinois residents can call their House of Representatives member and urge support.   Representative McAsey proposed a bill, HB5348, to ban bumper pads… Read More

On Tuesday October 1, 2013, the federal government shutdown. Everyone is bracing for the negative impacts as national parks close their gates and thousands of federal employees wait at home without a paycheck for the crisis to be resolved. Closed… Read More

Of the more than 100 children’s products recalled on average every year, at most 10%-30% are known to be repaired or removed from use. Although some may end up in the trashcan, the rest are left in homes and child… Read More

When I came across this story, it caught my eye – a young boy was injured when a toy eyeball he was playing with cracked and leaked into his eyes.  In KID’s early days, our co-founder Boaz Keysar used to… Read More