Give the Gift of Toy Safety This Holiday Season

Silver Cross Hospital offers tips to avoid injury during a time of celebration.

The biggest threat to the health of children older than a year old is not a dreaded disease, it's accidental injury. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, each year nearly 230,000 children suffer injuries from toys severe enough to be treated in a hospital emergency room. Nearly 40 percent of those injured are younger than 5 years old. “The last thing any child or parent wants is to end up in the emergency room hurt and unable to celebrate the holidays,” says Daniel Checco, D.O., Emergency Medicine physician at the Silver Cross Free-Standing Emergency Care Center located at 143rd Street and Bell Road in Homer Glen. A sponsored article by Silver Cross Hospital. The challenge for parents is to find toys that children will…

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10 Gifts for the Teen who Has (and Knows) Everything

Having trouble deciding what to get your teenager for Christmas? Here are a few suggestions.

They have it all and they know it all, except for some days, when you wonder if they actually have a soul. He used to be the precious and admiring little person who  wrote sweet letters to Santa at this time of year, but those days are long gone. What to get the teen who already has all the game consoles and every gadget to ever begin with a lower case "i?" Here are just a few, simple ideas.  10) A personalized copy of the US Tax Code. Because she already knows it all, you really need something substantial, and the tax code is so long, no one actually knows how many pages it is. That is, until now, because she will! Whether it's 16, 34 or 71 thousand, a tagged and ribboned copy of these 30 something million words is sure to impress her …

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Caroline Hoag

9:57 am on Thursday, December 16, 2010

I hope they like it too, Ashley! We went with the XBox 360 here.   more ›