The chilled water in your family pool is a refreshing haven during the warm months of summer. However, the pool can also be deadly. In the year 2007, 3,443 people in the United States died due to unintentional drowning. Broken down, this amounts to an average of 10 drowning deaths per day. About 19 percent of unintentional drowning incidents occur in a family pool environment. Keep three safety tips in mind to protect your family from unnecessary pool-related tragedies.

You can´t control everything about your own body. For example, you will always be at a higher risk of heart disease if the condition runs in your family. On the other hand, your chosen lifestyle can increase or decrease your risk of problems such as hardened arteries and heart attacks. In fact, three major heart disease risk factors are either changeable or avoidable.

Most children aren’t permitted to start kindergarten until they are about 5 years old, but meeting a minimum age requirement doesn’t necessarily mean a child is ready to start kindergarten. Because children develop on their own timetables, some children may enter kindergarten academically advanced but emotionally behind their peers, while children who are academically behind their peers may be physically and socially advanced. Still, all soon-to-be kindergarteners will be more successful in kindergarten if they have a basic set of skills under their belts. Parents of soon-to-be kindergartener are responsible for helping prepare their children for the new demands of attending school.

If you forgot to apply sunscreen before you spent 4 hours at a daytime barbecue, you may end up leaving with an unintended party favor: bright red skin. This is an unpleasant reminder to use sunscreen in the future, but for now your primary focus should be on soothing and healing your damaged skin. In most cases, you won’t need to invest in pricey synthetic medications in order to treat your sunburn. Many natural sunburn remedies will get the job done without unnecessary or irritating ingredients.

If you grew up in an era when kids played outside until dusk, you may be exasperated that your kids want to spend their entire summer vacation in front of computers and television screens. Just because they live in an era of couch-sitting and flashy graphics doesn´t mean they can´t appreciate other activities. However, it´s your job to open their minds to a world of simple pleasures that often lies beyond a screen.

Most kids are thrilled to be out of school for the summer. However, once a few weeks of summer vacation have gone by, the very same kids are unrecognizable couch potatoes with eyes that have glazed over. Help your kids make the most of their time off school by suggesting three meaningful pastimes.