Home Safe Not Sorry!

Nearly 7,000 children under the age of 14 die from accidents in and around the home each year. Home safety expert and consultant Ken George offers tips and points out a wide range of safety products that upscale parents can use to lessen the chance of accidents. Taking viewers on a tour of the house, George counsels viewers on dangerous places in the kitchen, family room, home office, bedrooms, bathroom, stairways, garage, and pool area. Much of the advice is good, common sense; the rest of it is a guide to safety products (several of them made by Fischer Price and other companies for whom George is a consultant). Many of these products appear to be quality items which would truly be useful (for a price); others, like the safety nightlight (which, I suspect, could be replaced by any number of other "safety" nightlights) sound like spurious nonsense. At the end of the program, all of the products are shown again with a toll-free number to call for ordering. Home Safe Not Sorry! is a high quality production, but due to its commercial nature and the fact that it's clearly pitched at upper middle class audiences make this an optional purchase for general library collections. Aud: P. (R. Pitman)