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Your child's health and safety is our top priority. Please search our resource library for information on health, nutrition, fitness, injury prevention and other important topics.

Playground and Sports Safety

Playground Safety

Following these safety guidelines can make neighborhood playgrounds entertaining and safe for your kids.

Preventing Children's Sports Injuries

Participation in sports can teach kids sportsmanship and discipline. But sports also carry the potential for injury. Here's how to protect your kids.

Safety Tips: Baseball

Baseball usually isn’t dangerous. But players can get injured from things like wild pitches, batted balls, and collisions in the field. These safety tips can help.

Safety Tips: Basketball

Basketball is fun, but it's also a contact sport, and injuries happen. To stay safe on the basketball court, take a look at these safety tips.

Safety Tips: Football

Football is a lot of fun, but injuries are common. To keep things as safe as possible on the gridiron, players should follow these tips.

Safety Tips: Golf

Golf is a generally safe sport, but injuries can happen. Following these tips can help keep golfers safe on the course.

Safety Tips: Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a fun, challenging sport and a great way to stay in shape. But it also presents a very real risk of injury. To keep things safe during practice and competition, follow these tips.

Safety Tips: Hockey

As fun as it is, ice hockey carries a very real risk of injury. To keep your kids as safe as possible, follow these tips.

Safety Tips: Ice Skating

Ice skating is fun but injuries are a risk. Follow these safety tips to learn how to skate safely.

Safety Tips: Inline Skating

Inline skating is good exercise and an excellent off-season training program for hockey and skiing. These tips can keep skaters safe.