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Strings on Clothing Can Strangle Your Child

Last Updated: September 14, 2009

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Parenting Tips for Your 37-38 Month Old Child

Clothing strings, loose clothing and stringed items placed around the neck can catch on playground equipment and strangle children. Do not dress children in loose or stringed clothing.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has received reports of children’s deaths when clothing and toys caught on playground equipment especially slides and swings. Avoid strings on hoods and attached mittens. Avoid scarves, ponchos, jump ropes, or anything that hangs around the child’s neck. These items can catch on open-ended hooks, gaps and other parts of the playground equipment.


Learn more about Your Child: 37-38 Months from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.


Note to Parents: When reading this newsletter, remember: Every baby is different. Children may do things earlier or later than described here. This newsletter gives equal space and time to both sexes. If he or she is used, we are talking about all babies.
References: These materials were adapted by authors from Extension Just in Time Parenting Newsletters in California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wisconsin.

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