Riding a slide while on a parent’s lap increases the risk of injury

Going down a slide on a parent’s lap can lead to a broken leg for small children. An estimated 352,698 children less than 6 years of age were injured on slides in the United States from 2002 through 2015, and many of those injuries were leg fractures.

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