Child Burns And Hair Straighteners
If you’re a parent who understands the basics of child proofing and you use any type of hot irons, styling tools or rollers, you already have probably figured out the dos and don’ts of protecting your children from burns.
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Even adults are not immune to hot iron and hot styling tool burns, but adults get burned more often when the irons accidentally brush against their skin while styling their hair.
Babies and young children get burned when they discover family member’s irons which were left plugged in and they touch their fingers, hands, mouth or other areas of their skins.
It’s actually a serious matter.
According to health experts, the number of cases of young children and babies receiving serious burns from heated hair styling instruments has skyrocketed by over 50% in the last ten years.
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Even more problematical is the technological advances made in the heated styling tool industry.
Unlike in the past, hot irons can heat up to 220 degrees or higher. Some irons will continue to remain extremely hot even when shut completely off for up to 10 minutes.
Unattended children or babies who are curious and grab unattended scorching hot irons can get serious burns and permanent scarring. It’s important to keep in mind that the skins of babies and children can be much thinner than the skin of adults. In face, it can be as much as 15 times thinner than adults.
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It is important to remember to always keep a close eye on any of your hot styling tools ranging from curling and flat irons to hot rollers, combs, brushes and blow dryers. Keep any hot tools completely out of the access of your children.
Not only should you make sure they are completely turned off after use but lock them safely away when they are cool. Children like to imitate their parents and play pretend dress up. They may view hot irons as toys to play with or ways to satisfy their curiosity. Don’t tempt them or give them the opportunity.
When your children are old enough to understand, be sure to explain to them the irons are hot and not too touch. Much as you would with anything hot in your home.
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Always using common sense with any type of hairstyling equipment with babies and children are around is always the very best bet to prevent any type of burns or other accidents.
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June 2nd, 2011 at 8:21 pm
With havin so much content do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright violation? My website has a lot of unique content I’ve either authored myself or outsourced but it looks like a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my permission. Do you know any techniques to help protect against content from being ripped off? I’d certainly appreciate it.
June 7th, 2011 at 7:31 am
Thanks for stopping by the blog and taking the time to comment. It is very much appreciated.
HairBoutique.com has been on the web since the mid 1990s. What you’re seeing with your copyright violations is very sad, but extremely common and heartbreaking.
The copyright violations started happening to us from the very beginning because we work hard to provide unique, unusual and original information. If/when we do use info from other sites we always quote the site, give them links and follow all guidelines for referencing other content providers. When possible we ask permission before using anything other than 1-2 quotes or links.
There are some options you can utilize but first you have to find all the sites copying your info illegally. There are several software packages that will crawl the web to find your content. We have used some in the past but it is very time consuming, especially when you have lots of content like we do. However, it’s the best way to find everything that has been inappropriately “borrowed” and used without your permission.
Once you find the sites that are using your content and figure out who owns the site, I would suggest you focus on the sites that are consistently using your information rather than sites that are using 1-2 items. what you can do once you find them is:
1. Call, email or correspond with the site owner. Ask them to either remove your content or provide links back to your site, business or whatever is best for you. Be sure to create some sort of spreadsheet to track the sites and your correspondence. Many sites will not respond but the legitimate ones will usually provide a link back or remove the content. Some will even apologize which is always interesting.
It’s surprising, but many sites are completely unaware that its not OK to copy information from other sites. They don’t realize all the damage its doing to you and your site by diluting the information and also impacting your Goggle juice. And yes, there are sites that just don’t care if they copy illegally because they figure the burden of getting it removed is on you, and sadly that’s true.
2. You can also put notifications at the top and bottom of each article or content reminding people it’s copyrighted and please don’t copy without permission or without links back. This does help a little bit and it lets people know that your information is unique and please don’t copy without permission or links.
You can also hire attorneys. We have done this and it is very expensive, but they can take actions against sites that copy inappropriately.
3. You can legally copyright all of your content in a formal way through the US copyright office. That gives you added protection from a legal standpoint. You still have to hire attorneys to go after those that violate the copyrights but at least you have more “teeth” to get the sites to remove your intellectual property.
4. If the site copying your information is owned by a large content provider like the “content farms” you can contact the owner of the site and show proof that the information is yours and they will usually remove it. Also, large content farms like EHow and similar will usually respond quickly to attorney inquiries. I would try just contacting them yourself first.
If an email doesn’t work then a certified letter to the owner of the website will often get a response of some kind.
Usually its best to approach these situations with the idea that it was an innocent mistake – whether it was or not – to allow the offenders to save face and work with you to provide links back to your site. We have found that when we are very cordial and inquiring about our content, the response is usually positive. Most sites when approached will try to work it out. If they don’t respond or try to work with you by offering to trade links or even provide content back to you from their site then you do have legal recourse.
Hope that helps. If you would like to discuss this further please post another comment and I will respond.