Safe Baby: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Home Safety

by Debra Smiley Holtzman

Overview

Protecting their children is the greatest concern for most parents and grandparents. The Safe Baby provides them comprehensive help in making their homes safer for the entire family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591810292
Publisher:	Sentient Publications
Publication date:	12/15/2004
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Debra Smiley Holtzman is a nationally recognized child safety and health expert and a specialist on the subjects of injury prevention, toxic chemicals, food-borne diseases, and more. She has a law degree, an M.A. in occupational health and safety, and a B.A. in rhetoric and communication, and is the mother of two children.

Her first book, The Panic-Proof Parent:
Creating a Safe Lifestyle for Your Family, is a comprehensive, encyclopedic work that covers protecting the child from conception to the teen-age years.  The book received rave reviews from newspapers and magazines, as well as endorsements from National SAFE KIDS, the National Safety Council, and Olivia Newton John's child safety organization.
Holtzman teaches infant and toddler safety classes at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. She is the safety expert on Discovery Health Channel's popular weekly TV series Make Room for Baby.

Editorial Reviews

Holtzman, a nationally recognized child-safety and health expert featured on the Discovery Health Channel's Make Room for Baby, offers parents of young children a well-written guide on home safety. The author takes a tour of the house and the backyard, covering safety measures that apply to each room. Besides the expected areas like the nursery, the bathroom, and the kitchen, Holtzman also covers the backyard, the home office, and the basement. Chapters on fire safety, common poisonous plants, and environmental hazards are also addressed. The "Room-by-Room Checklist" and the list of resources in the appendix are handy and extensive. Because this book is similar in content and scope to the author's previous The Panic-Proof Parent: Creating a Safe Lifestyle for Your Family, it is an optional purchase for libraries that own the older book. Otherwise, highly recommended for public libraries.-Maryse Breton, Ann Arbor, MI Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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