Childhood Mementos & Summer Dangers

Do you wish you would have kept fewer of your kids mementos? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says only 6% of parents feel that way. Plus, now summer is in full swing, we look at the dangerous to be aware of. 

Episode Transcript

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Please, he's ober in the denwith dangerous day. Here's a question,
millennials, how many times have youheard your parents begging you to come back
and collect your stuff from your childhoodthat they kept, and how many times
have you said you don't want it? Well, there's a new survey out
on childhood mementos, and parents wereasked, do you wish you would have
kept more of your children's childhood orless or about the same. Six percent

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said they wish they would have keptless, thirty five percent would have kept
more. About half of them saidthe same amount. Parents are happy with
what they have. Here's a rundownof what people kept. Ninety five percent
kept photos of their kids, seventyfour percent kept their art, seventy percent
kept awards and certificates, fifty sevenpercent videos of their children, fifty seven
percent, report cards, fifty fivepercent letters, forty eight percent, yearbooks

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forty six percent, a print orcast of a handprints or footprints, forty
five percent kept toys, thirty fivebaby clothes or a lock of their hair
in twenty nine percent kept their babyteeth. Wow, keeping the teeth in
a lock of the hair is that'ssometime in the future, the parents can
cast a spell on them or inthe two. Well, summer's here time
to stay safe. Here's five potentiallydangerous things related to summer other than me.

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Insect bites top the list. Mosquitoesticks carry different diseases zeka and lime
disease, and of course aaron grandforks. They've recently reported West Nile virus
in the mosquitoes, so keep thatin mind. Use some type of insect
repellent. Dehydration and heatstroke is numbertwo kills more people each year than tornadoes,
hurricanes, floods, or cold weather. Also, sunburns can be deadly

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in the long run. Make sureyou use sunscreen, especially if you're going
to be in the sun for anextended period of time. Don't forget pay
attention to drowning. More than fourthousand people drown every year, twenty percent
of them or kids under the ageof fourteen. And food poisoning is also
more prevalent in the summer, morecommon partially because we handle a lot of
raw meat when we're grilling and wedon't wash our hands. And also one

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other thing side note that wasn't onthis list. Next week, of course,
being fourth of July may make sureyou are You're careful around fireworks.
Seems like I've gotten to the pointnow the only thing I set off is
a smoke alarm when I'm cooking.Tune it again for another episode of Deeper
in the Den with Dangerous Dave Bright. Dear