Practice prevention and safety. Teach your child safety tips, including always swimming with a buddy, and wearing a bicycle helmet. Teach your child about sun safety, including wearing a hat outdoors and frequently applying SPF 30 sunscreen. Also, a growing child will come into potentially dangerous situations or may become separated from a parent or caregiver. Be sure your older toddler knows his or her name, parents' names, and phone number. Help him or her to recognize police and fire officials as trusted individuals, while raising caution to other strangers. Get your child's fingerprints taken and keep a recent photograph in your wallet.

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools has pulled together some Safety tips on summer activities including resources on biking, hiking, and swimming, information on sun screen, and much more.

Summer means swimming in pools, beaches and lakes, but are you prepared if there is a problem? The American Red Cross has written a list of safety tips for general water use and specific to types of water/activities.

Remember your first trip to the top of a really tall playground slide? Remember the kid who got to the top of ladder, but couldn't get up the nerve to slide—or climb back down? Modern safety concerns have made this particular rite of passage rare, and raise the question, does a safe playground have to be boring? By Rob Capriccioso.

Does your child mow the lawn? How about swim in a pool? Ride in a boat? Go out in the sun? While fun, these activities need to be safe. Check out the American Academy of Pediatrics for advice from the docs of summer.