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Summer vacation… For some it means travel adventures, for others it’s about finding new and better ways to enjoy our homes… Enjoying longer days with a little fun in the sun.<\/p>\n

I’ve expanded our “tips list” to include attention to backyard pools and play equipment as well as the ever-popular barbeque.<\/p>\n

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Red Cross Home Pool Safety<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

7 Steps to a Backyard Playground for Kids<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I worked for many years as a family advocate and love sharing my collection of resources and interesting articles with you. Please be sure to visit the Resources for Parents<\/a> pages that are part of this site.<\/p>\n

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The National Fire Protection Association offers tips<\/a> to make sure you’re using barbeque equipment in the safest way possible while Web M.D. offers a great quiz to help you brush up on barbeque food handling<\/a> techniques.<\/p>\n

What’s your favorite summer safety suggestion?<\/p>\n

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Summer vacation… For some it means travel adventures, for others it’s about finding new and better ways to enjoy our homes… Enjoying longer days with a little fun in the sun. I’ve expanded our “tips list” to include attention to backyard pools and play equipment as well as the ever-popular barbeque. [Tweet “I’ve expanded our “tips list” to include attention to backyard play equipment.”] Red Cross Home Pool Safety 7 Steps to a Backyard Playground for Kids I worked for many years as a family advocate and love sharing my collection of resources and interesting articles with you. Please be sure to visit the Resources for Parents pages that are part of this site. [Tweet “Please be sure to visit the Resources for Parents pages on this site.”] The National Fire Protection Association offers tips to make sure you’re using barbeque equipment in the safest way possible while Web M.D. offers a great quiz to help you brush up on barbeque food handling techniques. What’s your favorite summer safety suggestion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happiness","category-parenting","category-special-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14216,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/14216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}