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By now you have the kids all ready to go trick or treating and you are just squeezing into your own costume.  Just a few quick things to remember.  Kids will be running all over the place and crossing at the corners is the last thing on their mind, so if you are driving be very, very careful.  If you are not driving, still stay aware to be able to watch for some of the kids that may not notice they just stopped in the middle of the street.

To kids all candy is good, but make sure at the end of the night you go through the candy to make sure it is all good.  Sometimes candy can sit for too long and may look pretty gross.  When in doubt, throw it out.  Keep some of your own candy to switch with the kids so they don’t feel cheated.  You may also want to dole out the treats over several days to avoid stomach aches.  Then of course the best thing may be to donate all the candy and get the kids to enjoy some healthy snacks.  Good luck on the healthy stuff. 

Seriously, have a great holiday and try not to over do the candy.

Since California’s cell phone law recently went into effect I thought we would be hearing less about the unsafe practices of drivers.  One might think drivers would understand the correlation between being distracted on a cell phone and a high accident rate would carry over to other distractions as well.  But it appears that since driver’s can no longer talk on their cell phones they have resorted to texting instead.  Maybe the law isn’t clear or maybe it is just me, but isn’t texting even more dangerous. 

With kids in the car screaming and mom texting whoever, the distractions of driving are making our roads even more unsafe then they once were.  Don’t get me wrong, I love technology and like being able to stay in touch as much as I can.  But, especially when shuttling kids around town, I would hope we could all put our toys away and pay as much attention to driving as safely as we can.  It is bad enough that we take risks with our own lives, but we should be more careful with children around. 

The law may not have banned every distraction and it can’t.  But it should be a wake-up call to pay more attention to what we are doing.  It is sad that so many people will watch what they eat and get plenty of exercise in hopes of living a longer and healthier life.  They then get in a car and and forget the number of lives that have been ruined or shortened in a crash. 

This is not another public service announcement, just a concerned parent reading about to many accidents that could have been prevented.