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 Find out all
the information
Healthy Kansas Kids
you ever wanted Volume 2 Issue 5 May 2010
to know about
child car seats
at: http:// Buckle Up Kansas! Make this a Safe Summer!
kidshealth.org/
parent/ Buckle Up Kansas five car seats are installed search for a Child Safety
firstaid_safe/ Motor Vehicle Crashes or used incorrectly. Read Inspection Station near
travel/ are the number one both your child safety seat you by visiting http://
auto.html# cause of accidental injury instruction manual and www.kdheks.gov/
-related death for chil- your motor vehicle owner’s safekids/
 Adults who dren ages 0-14 in Kan- manual for direction on child_passenger.html
don’t buckle up sas. Proper use of seat proper installation
are sending chil- belts and car seats and placement of
dren a deadly greatly increases the your seat. Call 1-800-
message that it chance of survival while 745-SAFE (English)
is all right not to decreasing the potential or 1-800-747-SANO
wear a seat belt. for injury. Observational (Spanish) for ques-
surveys conducted in tions on installation.
2009 found that 96% of Check to see if your
Kansas children ages 0-4 seat has been re-
were in child seats, but called, or for addi-
only 70% of children tional correct usage
ages 5-14 were pro- guidelines, go to
tected by a booster seat www.nhtsa.dot.gov. Airbags
 Safety never or seat belt. The back seat is the saf-
takes a break Child Safety Seat Check est place for a child to
and it never The BUCKLE UP program Up Events/Fitting Sta- ride. It is estimated that
goes on vaca- is designed to increase tions children ages 12 and un-
tion. Make it the number of Kansas When a child safety seat is der are 36% less likely to
click for you and children properly pro- not used correctly, its ef- die in a crash if they ride
your child every tected by a child safety fectiveness decreases, seated in the rear seat of
trip, every time. seat, booster seat or seat which increases the a passenger vehicle.
belt. The program is the chances for injuries or  Children ages 12 and
recipient of the Excel- even death in a crash. Safe under should ride buck-
lence in Accountability Kids Kansas, in partnership led up in a back seat.
This Issue: Award from the Safe Kids with community groups  Never put an infant in
Worldwide and General and local coalitions facili-
front of an air bag. The
Buckle Up 1 Motors. tates child safety seat
back of a rear-facing in-
check up events. At
Seat Belt 2 fant or convertible seat
these events,
rests too close to the air
Songs for trained technicians
bag. Due to the consider-
the Car provide education
able force with which an
and assistance to
air bag deploys (up to
Booster 2 parents and caregiv-
200 mph), the impact
Seat Facts ers on the proper
with the air bag can
installation and use
cause serious or fatal in-
Pizza and 2 of child safety seats.
juries to the infant.
Peach Events are open to
For air bags to work ef-
the public.
Freeze fectively, everyone needs
Child Seat Misuse
to be properly secured by
Studies have found that Find an upcoming Child
a safety belt.
as many as four out of Passenger Safety Event or
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Seat Belt Songs for the Car
Seat Belt Safety   Safety Belts   Bucklebear® Safety Poem 
Sung to: "Mary had a little  Sung to: "Jingle Bells"  By Bucklebear® 
lamb"   
Here is how we buckle up,  Safety belts, safety belts,  I like my seatbelt 
buckle up, buckle up  wear them all the way   nice and snug. 
Here is how we buckle up,  Every time you're in the   Around my hips 
Listen for the snap!  car,every night and day, oh  like a big bear hug. 
Put the seatbelt 'cross your  Safety belts, safety belts,  I make it click 
lap, ‘cross your lap, 'cross  wear them round your lap  so the driver will know 
your lap.  Then before you start to  I'm buckled up and ready 
Put the seatbelt cross your  ride, everybody snap!  to go. 
lap and LISTEN FOR THE 
SNAP! 

Booster Seat Facts

 A belt‐positioning  positioning booster seat  significant injury than prop‐
booster seat raises the child  can not only make a child  erly restrained children. 
up so that the seat belt,  safer, but also make the   Booster seats that meet 
which is designed for an  safety belt fit better and  federal Safety standards are 
adult body, fits the child’s  feel better to the child.  readily available for $20 ‐ 
body. Since children in   Children aged 2 to 5  $40. For information about 
booster seats use the adult  years who are restrained in  the Kansas Law,  visit   
seat belt, no installation of  an adult seat belt are 3.5  www.kansasboosterseat.org 
the seat is required. A belt‐ times more likely to suffer a  

Pizza and Peach Freeze

By using whole‐wheat  Diections:  canned) 
crust, part‐skim cheese,  1.  Preheat oven to 400   1 tsp. sugar 
turkey pepperoni, and‐ (204° C).  Directions: 
mixed vegetables, this pizza  2.    Spread pizza sauce on  1.  Pour the milk into an 
offers kids more of the nu‐ crust.  ice cube tray and freeze 
trients they need, with less  3.    Spread cheese on top of  until solid. 
fat and fewer calories.  the sauce.  2.  Pop the "milk cubes" 
Prep time: 25 minutes  4.    Sprinkle sliced mush‐ out of the tray and put 
Ingredients:  rooms and pepperoni on top  them into the blender. 
 1 ready‐to‐bake whole‐ of the cheese.  3.  Then put the peaches 
wheat pizza crust (10  5.    Bake approximately 15  and sugar into the blender. 
inches in diameter)  minutes. Cut into 6 wedges.  4.  Put the lid on the 
 ½ c. pizza sauce  Serves: 3  blender and blend on high 
 1 c. shredded part‐ Serving size: 2 slices  speed until everything is all 
skim, low‐moisture    mixed together and very 
mozzarella cheese  Add a cool Peach Freeze   smooth. 
Ingredients: 
 ½ c. (17 slices) turkey  Serve right away. 
pepperoni   ½ c. milk  Serves: 3 
 1 c. sliced mushrooms   1 c. sliced peaches (they 
can be either fresh or