Dear Friend:

During Children’s Health Month, I urge all parents and other caregivers to take action to protect children’s health, safety, and well-being. Whether or not you have children of your own, every adult can help improve children’s health and safety.

Some actions – such as volunteering at an afterschool program or reducing childhood asthma by fighting air pollution – require an extra commitment of time.

But there are also many simple things you can do to make a big difference in children’s health, such as fastening a child’s seatbelt, making sure immunizations are current, or storing household cleaners and pesticides out of children’s reach.

For an online calendar of 31 children’s health tips – one for each day in October – go to http://www.childrenshealth.gov/calendar.html .

Congress established Children’s Health Day in 1928. In recent years the celebration of children’s health has expanded to the entire month of October. You can find out more about Children’s Health Month by visiting my special webpage at
http://boxer.senate.gov/chm.html .

Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator