By David Wolf, Attorney
Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network
A valuable resource to moms across the nation is a website called www.momslikeme.com The website offers a place for moms to offer advice and get advice. It also allows moms in communities throughout Florida and the rest of the United States to share their experiences, thoughts, and feelings on a wide variety of parenting and mom related issues. From Florida to California to Maine and all points in between, you can find moms like you who are ready, willing, and able to help you with parenting and mom issues that come up in every day life. As a father / parent and husband, I now the value of moms and how much they know. When thousands upon thousands of moms congregate together to make their lives and the lives of others a better place, everybody wins. Check out www.momslikeme.com and go to your local community site. Get involved and active for a smarter today and a better tomorrow.
Police in Gwinnett County, Georgia have arrested and charged a man and woman with false imprisonment and cruelty to children for using handcuffs to restrain the woman’s fifteen year old son. The teenager was held with the handcuffs for periods of 12 hours at a time and was denied food and water over a three day period.
Texting while driving has become a major safety issue for teens and adults alike glued to their telephones while driving. Talking on a mobile phone can be distracting in that the driver’s mind is occupied with the conversation rather than the road, other drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians. Texting is a bigger problem because drivers are looking at the mobile phone screen. Texting can be blamed for a number of deadly automobile crashes during the past few years including the following:
Kepa Kahakauwila recently died from automobile accident injures. Kahakauwila was driving a truck that hit a guard rail and then landed in a gulch off of Hana Highway in Haiku, Hawaii according to police. Kahakauwila was taken to a nearby hospital but later died from the injuries. One passenger was treated at a hospital and then later released. The other passenger was flown by to Oahu, Hawaii for evaluation and treatment for the automobile accident related injuries.
Many families with pet dogs install doggie doors to allow easy access for dogs to go in and out of a house or patio area. Doggie doors are very convenient. Doggie doors can also be dangerous in that small children / toddlers get out of house through the doggie door. Once out of the house, small children / toddlers have been known to suffer serious personal injuries and death from pools, ponds, and other dangers outside of the house. In August 2006, Matthew Ranfone got out of a doggie door from his Orlando home and was found floating face down in the family pool. He died later from drowning related injuries. Carol Ranone, Matthew’s mother, has launched a website to get the word out about the dangers of pet doors / doggie doors and small children at 
Technology and lower production costs have lead to more purchases of flat screen televisions. Heavier televisions are being replaced by lighter thinner televisions. One would think that this would reduce the incidents of injuries from heavy television sets that have fallen on children in the past. However, there is a newer type of danger out there for children – flat screen television sets falling off of walls and injuring children. Many flat screen televisions are hung on walls by a wide variety of brackets. Some homeowners and renters choose to hang the televisions themselves. Others tend to hire professional installers from Best Buy, HH Gregg, Sears, and other retailers. Whoever installs the televisions needs to make sure that the brackets are properly attached to studs rather than just dry wall and that manufacturer instructions are followed. Thereafter, parents need to inspect the television set frequently to make sure that it is properly secure and that nobody moves or disturbs the television to make it unsteady, unsturdy, or at risk for falling.
In Nebraska day care centers adequate staffing is vital to the safety and educational needs of the children. In other words, it is important to have a sufficient number of child care workers in place to make sure that the individual needs of each child is met throughout the day. The State of Nebraska has instituted staff to child ratio standards for day care centers under the 
Nebraska day care centers / child care centers must follow the rules and regulations located at 
Working parents in Nebraska must rely on child care centers and day care centers to provide supervision, care and education to their children from infants to toddlers to school aged children. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services provides licensing information to parents, caregivers, and others who want to obtain or research information on a child care center, day care center, health care providers and others. Go to the Official Website for 
Nebraska day care centers / child care centers must comply with criteria, rules, and regulations set forth by the